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!The Workhorse Zoo Bioethics Quiz

The Workhorse Zoo was a display of nine of the most studied industrial
organisms of Modern Molecular Biology living together in a ‘glass house.’

The Organisms:
%%%Bacteria - E. coli%%%Yeast - C. cerevisiae%%%Plants - A. Thaliana and Fresh Wheat%%%Worms - C. elegans%%%Flies - D. melanogaster%%%Fish - D. rerio%%%Frogs - X. laevis%%%Mice - M. musculus%%%Humans - H. sapiens

Our pride and willingness to discuss important issues surrounding
nature/culture issues and human/other relations implies a public invitation
to intelligent debate. Conceptual novelties are expressed in the living
arts, with or without the meddling of artists, scientists or ethicists.
Life is alive and mutating, officially and unofficially. It is only within
the situational ethics of pluralist integrities that an effective debate has
a chance of flourishing. Life is not composed of pat answers and shallow
assumptions. This is why this presentation includes many more questions than
answers.

!Bio
Adam Zaretsky is a teacher and practitioner of ~VivoArts: Art and Biology
Studio. Art and Biology is an emerging and politically charged
techno-artistic field. Immersion in the world of scientific study exposes
artists to the ‘other’ culture and refines their process and commentary.
Often hidden from ideas of free play and improvised action, scientists can
glean healthy novelty and even inspiration through close contact with the
less regal but often more innovative clan. Included in his Biological Art
Practices are such non-laboratory based movements as Live Art, ~EcoArt, Food
Art and Animal Interrelation Art. An active student of Developmental
Biology and Transgenic Theory and Practice, Adam believes GMOs are a
transnational and diasporic issue for both humans and the rest of the
lifeworld. Human desire is reshaping evolution for contentious ends.
Designer babies, goat milk pharmacies, racialised germ warfare… the coming
century will prove to be another test of world resiliency in the face of the
least mature organismic organization: mediated pop culture.

!Links
http://www.emutagen.com
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