A talk for the conference "Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art&Science" Ionian Academy, Corfu, Greece 26-28 of May, 2017

1. The Art of Living Systems:
between natural and technological
Olga Remneva
Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence
Corfu, 26-28 of May, 2017

2. • human-nature connection through technology
• sensual mastering of nature
• artworks where the natural and the
technological are merged
• artworks by Russian artists
Talk’s framework

3. ...artists and others who work with living
systems realize that humans are not alone
on the Earth, and aim to develop new ways
to bring knowledge of other species and
their life processes into artistic discourse
Stephen Wilson

4. • to augment nature and ourselves in order
to perceive nature in a new way
• future scenarios
• interspecies communication
(still keep explaining)

5. Fairy Rings,
an Oratorio for Big Bloodline of Kombucha-
Dostoevsky Tea Fungus
Sergey Katran,
Dmitry ::vtol:: Morozov, Petr Smirnov
2016

6. Fairy Rings

7. Fairy Rings

8. Fairy Rings

9. Succulent Therapy
Anastasia Kizilova
2015

10. Succulent therapy

11. Succulent therapy

12. Succulent therapy

13. Succulent therapy

14. Plastifique Biofarm
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, Helena Nikonole,
Anastasia Kanatyeva
2015

15. Plastifique Biofarm

16. Plastifique Biofarm

17. Semi-permeable membrane
Inhabitation of root nodule bacteria
Ant-hill locular – Inhabitation of
Thermobifida fusca bacteria
Fatty acids for etherification
(to produce biofuel)
Acromyrmex petus
Plastifique Biofarm

18. Plastifique Biofarm

19. Plastifique Biofarm

20. Dendrophone
Vadim Kolosov, Aleksandra Vasilyeva,
Oleg Makarov, Helena Nikonole
2016

21. Dendrophone

22. Dendrophone

23. Dendrophone

24. Imaginary Garden
Vladlena Gromova, Artem Paramonov
2016

25. Imaginary Garden

26. Imaginary Garden

27. Imaginary Garden

28. The art of living systems demonstrates
• co-dependence of the natural and the
technological
• new forms of communication
• a postbiological paradigm
• into-the-future prototypes

29. All the warning signals of the new ground
are present in the arts long before the
hardware boys ever feel them
Marshall McLuhan

30. Thank you for your attention!
Olga Remneva
Moscow
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