artworks in the same category

Nanorobots replacing neurons video


Genre : Video
Support : Digital video
Subjects : 1.) Technological Convergence

1.3.) A.I. / Robotics / nanomachines

Primordial


Genre : graphic

Support : crayon et aquarelle sur papier / pencil and watercolour on paper - 150 x 150 cm / 59 x 59 in

Subjects : 1.) Technological Convergence

1.1.) GMO

Birth of the life and the consciousness

Relic of the Bionic Man : 2001


Genre : sculpture
Supports : Human, animal and synthetic bones, electronic components
Subjects : 1.) Technological Convergence

1.2.) Hybridization living / inert

Natural History of the Enigma


Genre : BioArt
Support : transgenic petunia
Subjects : 1.) Technological Convergence

1.1.) GMO

The central work in the “Natural History of the Enigma” series is a plantimal, a new life form Kac created and that he calls “Edunia”, a genetically-engineered flower that is a hybrid of Kac and Petunia. The Edunia expresses Kac’s DNA exclusively the red veins of the flower. The gene Kac selected is responsible for the identification of foreign bodies. In this work, it is precisely that which identifies and rejects the other that the artist integrates into the other, thus creating a new kind of self that is partially flower and partially human. Developed between 2003 and 2008, and first exhibited from April 17 to June 21, 2009 at the Weisman Art Museum, in Minneapolis, “Natural History of the Enigma” also encompasses a large-scale public sculpture, a print suite, photographs, and other works.

Replenishing the Hemoglobin


Genre : Photo
Supports : carbon pigment print
Subjects : 1.) Technological Convergence

1.4.) Interfaces Human / technology / nature

From the serie “Formatting Gaia II” :

The cycle between human beings and the natural world has been transformed into a new formation that inspires intricate modes of transmitting and receiving information.  Through the development of modern technologies human beings have begun to unfold the possibilities of telematic and cybernetic systems of communication.   Earth is no longer a simple exchange of biological entities, but a more complex system that employs digital signal to mediate our existence within it.

Human beings, technology, and nature are now all part of a congruous system of existence that is becoming more and more visible in our landscape.  Formatting Gaia depicts this world, where there is a physical connection between the three and all work in unison with one another.

These images explore an alternate version of the human existence than what we have known it to be in our short history.  As opposed to being what we at times feel to be independent of nature and technology, the images show the necessity we have for them, as well as how we have used technology to steer our own genetic makeup. Photographic investigations into this world leave one with a visual depiction of the possibilities that we’ve already begun to travel toward along our evolutionary path.

-Patrick Millard

De Natura rerum


Genre : graphic
Support : crayon et aquarelle sur papier / pencil and watercolour on paper – 280, x 150 cm / 110 x 59 in
Subjects : 1.) Technological Convergence

1.1.) GMO

Arbre à cerveaux / brain tree