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I. Reichle, "LANDSCAPE = LABORATORY with Herwig Turk," SciArt in America, pp. 5–9, Dec. 2016. Added by: Ingeborg Reichle (23/06/2025, 15:05) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (23/06/2025, 16:12) |
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Some months ago scientists gathered at Harvard Medical School in Boston to talk about creating a synthetic human genome. As a follow-up project to the Human Genome Project, this new project aims to synthesize an entire human genome from chemicals. While fabricating a fully artificial Homo sapiens 2.0 may be a potential by product, the main aim is to improve the synthesization of DNA in general; to make it cheap, easy, and completely reliable. For more than twenty years the Austrian artist Herwig Turk has been fascinated by such debates within the life sciences about cutting–edge science and technology. He asks how our societies will respond to developments that call into question our very status as humans and our concept of life–questions that are usually negotiated behind closed doors. In his latest solo show “Herwig Turk: Landschaft = Labor”—a comprehensive retrospective at the Carinthian Museum of Modern Art (MMKK) in Klagenfurt, Austria, curated by Andreas Krištof and Christine Wetzlinger–Grundnig—the Vienna based artist engages with the material culture of the laboratory and the epistemological framing of doing science in the age of technoscience. In the early 1990s while exploring visual strategies in digital art, Turk also began to study images produced by the sciences, which even at that time were already making extensive use of digital images and imaging processes.
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