house of cards

i was reminded of this after hearing matt mcgarvey's talk on perception a few weeks ago:

violinist playing with subatomic particles

From Michael Bryant:



For more info, click here.

Alter Nature

Interesting project in Belgium; for more info click here and here.

The Pope cannot donate his organs

someone should write a paper explaining the history of why the pope's body parts cannot be donated; even though he carries a donor card, he cannot donate his organs because his body belongs to the church:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/the-pope/8303510/The-Pope-is-an-organ-donor-but-his-body-parts-cannot-be-donated.html

vanessa beecroft

check out some of vanessa beecroft's projects, from vb45 (2001) onwards:

http://www.vanessabeecroft.com/

giorgio agamben discusses beecroft's work in an essay titled "nudity", published in the book nudities. we are reading a chapter from this book, "identity without the person", in my posthumanism class.

Bioart in The Fifth Element

bioart in science magazine

from michael bryant, an article in the new scientist about bioart:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/01/visceral-curator-making-art-out-of-living-tissue.html