Gabe Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine
Gabrijel Barsija-Kolambo (Gabriel Barcia-Colombo): Moj automat za DNK
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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u Los Anđelesu.
i prodaje riblja jaja.
ili kutijama od šibica,
On nije automat,
u Bruklinu, Njujork,
grow E. coli that glows in the dark
ešerihije koli koja svetli u mraku
DNA extractions about a year ago,
godinu dana kako izdvaja DNK jagode
fascinating, because it's so beautiful.
jer je tako lep.
being a beautiful thing before,
o DNK kao lepoj,
posebno u umetničkoj zajednici,
Dženspejsu posle ovoga,
we can do this strawberries,
„Ako možemo jagode,
some friends, some artist friends,
sa prijateljima, umetnicima,
you could actually see DNA.
može da se vidi DNK.
hajdemo po neki pribor odmah.
out some supplies right now.
parties at my house on Friday nights
večere kod mene petkom uveče
do with your Friday nights,
da se radi petkom uveče,
think about a couple of things.
o par stvari.
podsećalo na moj zid na Fejsbuku.
stvorio sam genetičku mrežu,
one time a friend came over
"Oh. Zašto su numerisani?
person more rare than the other one?"
retkost od one osobe?"
raspored po kom sam uzeo DNK.
was the order that I extracted the DNA in.
na skupljanje igračaka
what's going to be inside of them.
Niste sigurni šta je u njima.
vending machine and the Art-o-mat all together,
automatu za kavijar, Art-o-matu i svemu,
night drawing a vending machine,
sam crtao automat za prodaju,
coils of a vending machine.
na automatu za prodaju.
to create an art installation
umetničku instalaciju
about our increasing access to biotechnology."]
o našem većem pristupu biotehnologiji."]
iz ograničene serije."]
Automat za DNK je trenutno
the DNA Vending Machine
od 100 komada
da ga ubacim u metro,
vending machines in that location.
na tim mestima.
and a lot of my art projects
i dosta drugih umetničkih projekata,
postavim pitanje, a to je,
recimo, laserskog sečenja
ili kupovine kavijara iz automata,
da bude deo automata?
DNA to be part of the vending machine?
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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