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
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Genre : sculpture, installation
Support : sculpture on plaster, cables
Subjects : 2.) Goals, hopes and ideals of h+ thought
2.1.) The enhancement
Communications ; Implants ; Consciousness …
Genre : BioArt
Support : transgenic rabbit
Subjects : 1.) Technological Convergence
1.1.) GMO
With GFP Bunny Kac welcomes Alba, the green fluorescent rabbit, and explains that transgenic art must be created “with great care, with acknowledgment of the complex issues at the core of the work and, above all, with a commitment to respect, nurture, and love the life thus created.” The first phase of the GFP Bunny project was completed in February 2000 with the birth of “Alba” in Jouy-en-Josas, France. The second phase is the ongoing debate, which started with the first public announcement of Alba’s birth, made by Kac in the context of the Planet Work conference, in San Francisco, on May 14, 2000. The third phase will take place when the bunny comes home to Chicago, becoming part of Kac’s family and living with him from that point on.
Genre : sculpture
Supports : Human, animal and synthetic bones, electronic components
Subjects : 1.) Technological Convergence
1.2.) Hybridization living / inert
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
Genre : Photo
Supports : carbon pigment print
Subjects : 1.) Technological Convergence
1.4.) Interfaces Human / technology / nature
From the serie “Formatting Gaia III” :
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
Genre : drawning
Supports : paper
Subjects : 1. Technological Convergence
1.3.) A.I. / Robotics / nanomachines
(english)
Here, I think we are definitely in the subject. Even without the commentary of the artist, it is clear that this is a hybrid. This tree whose fruits are brains, even if we consider it unrealistic, symbolic, tell us about all now possible associations between animals and plants. He joined the E. Kac’s petunia (Natural History of the Enigma). It envisages the emergence of plants endowed with consciousness, which is an unexplored avenue to date (except in a few works of SF). The tree as a symbol of life and longevity, growth, evolution, but also opposition conscious / unconscious, already interest transhumanism, the « brains tree » should indeed please.
(français)
Ici, à mon avis, nous sommes indiscutablement dans le sujet. Même sans le commentaire de l’artiste, il est évident qu’il s’agit d’une hybridation. Cet arbre dont les fruits sont des cerveaux, même si nous considérons qu’il est utopique, symbolique, nous parle de toutes les associations dorénavant possibles entre animal et végétal. Il rejoint la petunia de E. Kac (Natural History of the Enigma). Il envisage l’avènement de plantes douées de conscience, ce qui est une piste de réflexion peu explorée à ce jour (sauf dans quelques œuvres de SF). L’arbre, comme symbole de vie et de longévité, de croissance, d’évolution, mais aussi d’opposition conscient/inconscient, intéresse déjà les Transhumanistes, l’arbre à cerveaux devraient bien plaire.
I am amazed at the magic of these paintings！