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In 2000, the artist Eduardo Kac presented the world with the art piece “GFP Bunny.” With the rabbit featured being transgenic, Kac’s work brought to light the global discussion of morality in artistic life manipulation. The work raised the question: Is life an appropriate medium for art? The work of Kac is an example of Bio-Art, which is a form of art that makes use of the biotechnological practices of genetic engineering, tissue culture, and synthetic biology. The art created through biotechnological manipulation of life seeks to redefine the works of nature, the elements, the being, the works of science, and the works of life. Bio Art artisans work in laboratories. These artisans are scientists who manipulate biotech life. They create and cultivate bio-works as a form of art. The work created by bio art raises the question of who should be considered the creator of the artwork: the manipulator of life, the biotech wizard, or life itself? The act of manipulating life in art raises many questions about the ethics of life itself. Synthetic Biology is the engineered discipline that helps the artist to bio-manipulate life. The work created by bio-art raises many questions about the ethics of life itself.

Researching bio-art and synthetic biology at the graduate level involves fundamental questions of aesthetics, ethics, science studies, and cultural theory. How do bio artworks, in the face of the creation, manipulation, and possible destruction of living beings, leave the ethical stakes of engagement with the artwork and the viewer unchanged, thereby casting potential challenges to the Kantian aesthetic theory of disinterested contemplation? In what cultural anxieties around the biotechnological do bio-art practices articulate, amplify, critique, or respond to? What does the engineering culture of synthetic biology, in its efforts to standardize and commodify biological building blocks, create, and what do optimized genetic circuits and designer organisms suggest to living organisms? What knowledge and material practices of the body differentiate bio-art from mere conceptual or representational exercises with biotechnology? The Canadian context is particularly fertile for this research, given its substantial biotechnology industries, considerable contemporary art practices, and engagement with the discourse surrounding genetic engineering and environmental biotechnology. Graduate students working to complete manuscripts must bring together art historical studies situating bio-art within contemporary art movements, science and technology studies focusing on the laboratories and the construction of scientific knowledge, bioethics focusing on the modified organisms’ moral status, and cultural studies around public discourse on biotechnology. The communication of this research in the form of scholarly manuscripts entails the simplification of complex scientific processes, the articulation of the conceptual dimensions of the artworks, the responsive critique of art criticism and science studies, the ethical engagement and scholarly detachment, and the observance of the standards of the humanities for publication.

Author Name: Dr. Hestia Lavoie

Author Bio: Dr. Hestia Lavoie, Interdisciplinary Art & Science. Dr. Hestia Lavoie is considered one of the first and leading transformative scholars in the field of Art and Science for the last 16 years. As an interdisciplinary scholar, she holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies, and she combines her knowledge to develop creative works and scientific research in the areas of perception, cognition, environmental storytelling, and the relationships of humans and technology. Dr. Lavoie’s research revolves around the role of the arts (particularly immersive media, bio-art, data visualization, and sensory design) in the public understanding of various scientific components, such as the climate, neural networks, and other related systems. Dr. Lavoie works in collaboration with several scientists, engineers, and personnel from museums and other cultural institutions to design and develop prototype experiential projects. These projects target audiences in ways that are cognitively, emotionally, and ethically attuned to the various challenges related to the field of science. The first and leading transformative scholar in the field of Art and Science for the last sixteen years, Dr. Hestia Lavoie, pioneered the integration of the two disciplines by providing a unique empirical synthesis of both fields. Dr. Lavoie exemplifies the field of Art and Science by showing the world the importance of both disciplines. Art is used to catalyze scientific insight, and science is a source of inspiration for artistic expression.

Words Doctorate offers specialized manuscript writing services to researchers and students in bio-art and synthetic biology across Canada. We integrate services in the interdisciplinary fields of cultural studies, bioethics, and science and technology studies with manuscript writing. These services include the development of manuscript frameworks, articulation of the different theories that bind the manuscript, analysis of the artwork, explanation of the scientific processes, and editing and writing for systems of the humanities and other interdisciplinary fields. Dr. Hestia Lavoie, who serves in the art-science division, focuses on the content’s quality and provides rigorous explanations of complex biotechnological concepts and the contributions of the research clearly to peer reviewers and advances the understanding of the biotechnology’s cultural and aesthetic value.

Theoretical Frameworks and Aesthetic Interrogations

Art that is a living organism subverts the fundamental categories of aesthetics inherited from the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment drew a hard line of separation between moral and legal duties on the one hand and aesthetic appreciation on the other. This line is drawn by Immanuel Kant in his construction of a `disinterested' aesthetic judgement. Aesthetic appreciation of a living organism is in direct conflict with Kant's principles for a disinterested aesthetic judgement. Works of bio-art subvert both formalist and conceptual approaches to art. These artworks require an empirical, rather than metaphysical, engagement with the 'living' systems that require 'care' and, in turn, offer challenges for interpretive responsibilities for the bio-artists to the organisms that they have created. Artworks that grow, reproduce, and die defy the artwork-as-commodity principle that is pervasive in the art world. In this regard, bio-art is an example of what contemporary philosopher Jane Bennett refers to as 'vibrant matter', the non-human materials that have agency, whether of man or not, and resist the anthropocentric approaches that regard non-human resources as passive. In this case, phenomenological approaches that emphasize the embodied experience of the bio-art are appropriate, as bio-art invites a whole cocktail of visceral experiences from the audience that include fascination, revulsion, wonder, and anxiety. The bio-art world of contemporary art raises questions of elitism and accessibility because of the technical infrastructure and specialist scientific knowledge that they require to create bio-arts, and the public bio-art audience is not specialists in the biological sciences. This raises the debate of whether bio-art primarily 'speaks' to the scientific community or to the public and the question of whether intermediary discourse articulates the critical potential of the artwork, the spectacle, and the provocation in the absence of any meaningful technical discourse.

Cultural Context and Ethical Controversies

Bio-Art has been included and engaged with the Ethos of Biotechnology since the 90s. Bio-Art begins with the integration of biotechnology into the everyday world, not just the forefront of research and scientific inquiry. The 90s can also be considered the beginning of the public engagement with the Bioscience Writing Service. The Bio-Art community engaged both the overt and the covert. Biotechnology has been creeping into the commercial sector since the 90's. Critical Bio-Art or Bio-Art in the Public Interest focused on the covertly engaged public and the public involved in Bio-Art that attempted to reflect on the public and the process/Johnson bio-democracy involved within the work of Bio-Art and the Enterprise. Bio-Art speaks to the Bio-Sociological. Bio-Art also has an intimacy with the Dada Movement for Art/Science and the Dada Movement's responses to the Bio-Sociological within the use of the living/organized materials. Bio-Art also speaks to the Dada Movement's use of activated materials as opposed to the materials of contemporary society and the excess of contemporary culture as utilized with.

Bio-art is an artistic practice that employs living materials and biological processes. One example is transgenic art, which creates new life forms by incorporating genes from different organisms. This includes Kac’s fluorescent rabbit and Symbiotica’s “Victimless Leather” that grows living tissue into the form of a jacket. These works highlight the potential of biotechnology to cross species boundaries, challenging cultural categories and raising the questions of what an organism is and what it means to be an organism. More specifically, tissue culture art is a practice that grows living cells or tissues in a lab. In doing so, they create semi-living sculptures that blur the line between the living and the inanimate. Artists Oron Catts and Ionut Zur grow tissue into structures that cannot occur in the natural world. In doing so, they explore the malleability of life. Most of Catt's and Zur’s works feature a life-support system to highlight the reliance on technology of the engineered organisms.

Ecological art considers the environmental biotechnologies of bioremediation, the use of engineered organisms to filter pollutants, and bio-unchanging, the attempts to resurrect extinct species. These works consider anthropogenic environmental destruction and assess risks of techno-solutionism that bias the use of biotechnology to respond to the ecological crises caused by humans.

Applied Fields and Illustrative Cases

Laboratory Ethnography & Critical Science Studies

The bio-artists’ experience in laboratories gives them more access and the ability to better understand the scientists’ sociocultural, thus contributing to the Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective. Documenting the laboratories, the artists expose the scientific aesthetics (and the implicit scientific styles) that influence the design of the experiment constructs for the successful working of biotechnology. Such an ethnographic angle gives attention to the analysis of the material constitution of scientific knowledge, as opposed to purely, often idealistically stated, objective and disembodied scientific enquiries.

Public Engagement & Bioethics

Bio art works that incorporate the modification of organisms expose and mitigate (or clarify) the abstract and complex ethical issues of bio art, facilitating bioethics education. Bio art and biotechnology exhibit in the museums of (or other) public bio-artwork-focused exhibitions promote and stimulate discussions of the bio arts in the public domain and encourage and support the public to address the governance of biotechnology, the ethics of consents, and the use and misuse of engineered genetics. These activities are more accessible and politically participatory in the future of biotechnology and less dominated by the experts than policy-level discussions.

Future Scenarios and Speculative Design

The bio-artworks of the emerging bio-art pioneers are an expression of speculative design that reflects and imagines possible biotechnological tomorrows (including human enhancement, ecological engineering, and post-human evolution). Ai Hasegawa's "I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin" evokes discussions around reproductive technology and the boundary of species. On the other hand, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's "The Synthetic Kingdom" imagines an engineered (or in vitro designed) organism for human use and benefit and critiques the utilitarian relationship with nature.

Reflection on the Art World and Institutional Critique

Bio-art exposes the challenges of exhibiting unconventional media and the limits of art institutions. On the one hand, examples of museum infrastructures point to the (in)visibility of certain artworks (bio-art), which is shaped. On the other hand, the documentation of bio-art works (photographs, videos, preserved specimens) raises the question of whether the records are (bio)art, or simply (bio)art evidence, or (bio)art evidence of events in inaccessible laboratories.

Several complex challenges and limitations arise in this field of study:

In creating works of art that may cause harm to living things and that may even involve the destruction of living things after the art has been displayed, there are clear ethical issues in creating and exhibiting living things purely for the sake of visual pleasure.

In the interest of the health of the community and the environment, there are some biosafety regulations that dictate the types of organisms that can be created and the organisms that can be transported or displayed. These regulations impose a restriction on the freedom of creativity of the artist.

The artist may require scientific collaborators for the completion of the work, and this raises issues of artistic ownership, that become primary authors or creators of the work.

The bio art field is budgeted outside of what is considered normal for art. Access to laboratories, biological consumables, and the specialized equipment necessary to create the biological art are all very expensive.

There are also some trends and potential future developments to consider. The potential for cost reduction and lower technical barriers to creating artistic transgenic organisms because of developments with the CRISPR gene editing technology is likely to contribute to the expansion of bio art practices as the costs associated with bio art practice become lower. Because of the standardization of synthetic biology and the modular design of biological parts, there is less bias in the artistic experimentation with the combination of these tools. The extreme urgency to address the climate crisis has also led to a notable rise in bio art that utilizes organisms for ecological restoration, carbon sequestration, and climate-adaptive biotechnologies. The research interest in indigenous biotechnologies and in non-Western knowledge systems to inform the practice of bio art has also countered the Eurocentric framing of the practice of bio art, along with the selective breeding and fermentation practices that have been described as traditional and which have been combined with modern technology.

The intersection of bio-art criticism with feminism and queer theory has examined the effects of reproductive technologies, the gendering of the body, and queer ecology's subversion of the natural/unnatural dyad. The relation of post-humanist theory to bio-art's non-anthropocentric aspects concerns the agency and perspectives of non-human other(s) rather than anthropocentric meanings. The combination of biological and digital media within hybrid practices has been made possible by digital developments such as computational biology, bioinformatics visualization, and virtual bio design. The growing focus on the social inequities and environmental devastation caused by the scientific establishment has resulted in critical bio-art that interrogates the ethics of research, the politics of funding, and the topology of information.

Words Doctorate offers interdisciplinary manuscript writing services to bio-art and synthetic biology researchers in all Canadian provinces. These services include the writing of theoretical frameworks, the interpretation of artworks, explanations of scientific concepts, and the writing of texts to be published at the interdisciplinary level. With the support of art-science scholar Dr. Hestia Lavoie, Words Doctorate upholds the highest standards of research and communication for the critical understanding of biotechnological art and its ethics, aesthetics, and social theories.

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