Week 7: Bio-Tech and Art (switched week 6 & 7)

In this weeks lecture Bio-Tech and art, we discussed one of the most controversial and interesting topics I think we have covered. Bio Art can be defined in several ways with some believing you have to be working with the cells hands on while others do not believe that is the case. With all these developments and science and technology we must question whether everything going on is even ethical. For me personally, I think that animals and humans should be left alone when it comes to trying scientific experiments on them like the Laugh Rat process that professor Vesna described in her lecture. Even though rats are very similar to the way the human body works and could be important for the development of science I still believe it is better if they are left in peace.



In addition in Part 5 of the lecture, I found the experiments of adding a third ear on the arm. I think with all these advanced procedures we are putting ourselves at risk and becoming something that we really are not. All these procedures do not seem healthy and in the long term, there will be consequences for changing our body to be something we want it to be. As Professor Vesna described many of these procedures are just giving us the shock value.







While the science and art behind these procedures may be astonishing and amazing and go to show just how advanced we have the ability to become I still do not believe it is something we should be doing. When I was going through the resources for this week the Mc'Donalds clip I came across was something I had seen before but it still shocked me. The fact that a meal kept for so many years could look exactly the same scares me about what I am consuming. While I do not eat McDonalds everyday it isn't just the food at McDonalds that looks this way and I'm sure most of the food we consume on a daily basis have the same chemicals in them.






"Art Professor Grows Third Ear on His Arm" 18 August 2015. https://www.news24.com/You/Archive/art-professor-grows-a-third-ear-on-his-arm-20170728


"Physicians Clinic" Animal Testing and Alternatives https://www.pcrm.org/ethical-science/animal-testing-and-alternatives

"Mcdonalds Food Experiment" Youtube. UC Online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6us9kHHSNwk

Vesna, Victoria. “5 BioArt pt3.” YouTube, UC Online, 17 May 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL9DBF43664EAC8BC7&v=3EpD3np1S2

Vesna, Victoria. "5bioart pt2" YouTube, UC Online, 17 May 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL9DBF43664EAC8BC7&time_continue=329&v=MdSt-Hjyi2I.