Surrogate Second Skin

Surrogate Second Skin :Eternal Craving VerfremdungProjectHybrid Worlds: Nano-biotech + Art /Spring / 2010Instructors : Victoria VesnaSiddharthRamakrishnanName : Ginny, Chin-hui HwangMajor : Design & Technology

Abstract The Surrogate Second Skin is wearablethat will bring to aesthetic, ethical issues of society especially in terms of the usage of genetic engineering in the nano_biotechnologyThis wearable will generate a new layer on the wearer’s skin, like a Second Skin. This act aims to provoke the wearer into differentiating consciousness from preconscious by watching ‘growing’ body parts of oneself in the everyday life The frame of Mind; Eternal Craving Verfremdungis about bringing questions like what is life, how we live from one’s existenceVerfremdung;German playwright Bertolt Brecht built his dramatic theory as the alienation effect to accomplish aesthetic distance

Concept I am in a state of perpetual war with myself and my mind, crossing the ins and outs of a life without a perimeter, a state that breeds perpetual fear This fear stems from my extreme desire to create alternative representations of myself, to create a safe space, to multiply myself, so that my current identity can disappear. Concept of this Project is tenacity of mine to the personal space as the passage of 'deviation', 'escape' and ‘self deception’

ConceptA Genetically Engineered creation, Surrogate Second Skin will stand fororgans for transplantation

Instead of using Transgenic Animals, use yoursthrough the process of this wearable DIY(do-it-yourself)-Manufacturing Surrogate Second Skin; a substance made from a mix of protein and connective tissue

Replacement of ear, heart, bladder even a human embryo

Wearable awareness; personal observation on one’s own temptationTemptation : Essence of consciousness-being awareness of choice

Social ContextPeddy Hartley“Short Cuts To Beauty: Face Corset 16.”2004Jeremy scoot. "Body modification“ 1996Extreme beauty : Social context, or subdued desire

Social ContextOncomouse:Engineered to be susceptible to cancer. (1988)Artist Stelios Arcadiou :The ear created in a lab from cells and implanted into his skin

Social ContextUniversity of Minnesota LaboratoryUse of Mouse & Pig Heart cells to make a Human Heart

PrecedentsFDA . “Synthetic Skin.” (1998)sensory experience ; involving sight, smell, touchLondon College of Fashion“Skin Architecture” (2004)Tissue + Culture “Semi-Living Seamless Jacket”

PrecedentsDonna Franklin. (Australia)“Micro’be’Fermented Fashion”(2006 - )Peter Allen & Carla Murray(NY)“Skinthetic” (2002) , “BrandX” (2007)

Literature review “Since the central feature of human existence is the capacity to choose in full awareness of one's own non-being,it follows that the basic question is always whether or not I will be true to myself. Self-deception invariably involves an attempt to evade responsibility for myself. If, for example, I attribute undesirable thoughts and actions to the influence upon me of the subconscious orunconscious, I have made part of myself into an "other" that I then suppose to control the real me. Thus, using psychological theory to distinguish between a "good I" and a "bad me" only serves to perpetuate my evasion of responsibility and its concomitants”. (J.P.Sartre)

ProjectProposalOpen source : The National Institute of Genetics (Japan) has developed "Genome Network Platform Viewer" to make use of the integrated database of the Genome Network Project to the public databases.

Pluripotent Stem Cells : The wearer's stem cell is growing in a lab, and then seeded on a biodegradable specific body-part-shaped cage on the second skin

Sun-power film : To generate the need of energy.This will be transformed to electric energy to stimulate the cell division and neuron activities.ProjectProposalPractical advantages of the designThe Surrogate Second Skin can be contributed to the medical field :

The organs for transplantation

Cover the injury : serious skin damages caused by cancers, accidents, etc., and skin disorder diseases

Protection layer on the skin : from the environmental threats such as UV-rays, dusts, and Acid rains, etc. ProjectProposalEmotional design advantages of the designExtreme Accessory : Surrogate Second Skin would fulfill the embellish desire. For the certain group of people, this wearable could be curiousProjectProposalTool for Campaign : for example animal lovers and environment conservatives would use this to give the target emotional stress

Reminder of “self” like reflecting images of mirror: wearer reaffirm self from evasion of real self-awareness. people do not know what they look like before they see the mirrorProjectProposalPhenomenonTechnologyPotential As conducting tests on a mind Formula

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