Gabe Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine
Gabriel Barcia Colombo: Mijn DNA-automaat
Gabe Barcia-Colombo creates madcap art inspired both by Renaissance era curiosity cabinets and the modern-day digital chronicling of everyday life. Think: miniature people projected in objects and a DNA Vending Machine. Full bio
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Hij verkoopt visseneitjes.
grow E. coli that glows in the dark
E. colibacteriën kweekt,
van een aardbei.
DNA extractions about a year ago,
hoe Oliver dat deed bij een aardbei.
fascinating, because it's so beautiful.
omdat het zo mooi is.
being a beautiful thing before,
we can do this strawberries,
voor DNA-extractie bij mensen.
some friends, some artist friends,
you could actually see DNA.
dat je DNA echt kan zien.
out some supplies right now.
een voorraadje maken, zei ik.
parties at my house on Friday nights
bij mij thuis gaan organiseren.
grappige beelden oplevert.
Gewoon nooit.
waarop ze reageren.
avondjes gaan organiseren.
do with your Friday nights,
je vrijdagavond door te brengen,
think about a couple of things.
op m'n Facebook-fotogalerij.
genetisch netwerk gemaakt,
one time a friend came over
had hij zoiets van:
person more rare than the other one?"
Is deze persoon zeldzamer dan die?
was the order that I extracted the DNA in.
in volgorde van DNA-afname.
over speelgoed.
waarvan je de inhoud niet weet.
what's going to be inside of them.
maar je weet niet wat er inzit.
vending machine and the Art-o-mat all together,
en de Art-o-mat.
night drawing a vending machine,
een tekening van een automaat.
coils of a vending machine.
en de ringen van een automaat.
to create an art installation
van te maken.
about our increasing access to biotechnology."]
wordende toegang tot de biotechnologie.
en geeft een beeld
het eigendomsrecht van DNA.
the DNA Vending Machine
De DNA Vending Machine
van 100 stuks,
vending machines in that location.
die daar altijd al staan.
and a lot of my art projects
en met al m'n kunst
en het ordenen van DNA
slijpen met een laser,
uit een automaat,
DNA to be part of the vending machine?
uit een automaat te koop is,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo - Video sculptorGabe Barcia-Colombo creates madcap art inspired both by Renaissance era curiosity cabinets and the modern-day digital chronicling of everyday life. Think: miniature people projected in objects and a DNA Vending Machine.
Why you should listen
Gabe Barcia-Colombo is an American artist who creates installation pieces that both delight and point to the strangeness of our modern, digital world. His latest work is a DNA Vending Machine, which dispenses vials of DNA extracted from friends at dinner parties. He's also created video installations of "miniature people" encased inside ordinary objects like suitcases, blenders and more. His work comments on the act of leaving one's imprint for the next generation. Call it "artwork with consequences."
As he explains it: "While formally implemented by natural history museums and collections (which find their roots in Renaissance-era 'cabinets of curiosity'), this process has grown more pointed and pervasive in the modern-day obsession with personal digital archiving and the corresponding growth of social media culture. My video sculptures play upon this exigency in our culture to chronicle, preserve and wax nostalgic, an idea which I render visually by 'collecting' human beings (alongside cultural archetypes) as scientific specimens. I repurpose everyday objects like blenders, suitcases and cans of Spam into venues for projecting and inserting videos of people."
Barcia-Colombo is an alumnus and instructor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Read about his latest work on CoolHunting and in his TED Fellows profile.
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