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Manufacturing Life Through Science and Art Interaction: Güneş-Helen Isitan’s Hybridities: Almost Other

Manufacturing Life Through Science and Art Interaction: Güneş-Helen Isitan’s Hybridities: Almost... With the findings of microbiome studies, many artists have begun to focus on environments where microbe-human interactions take place. Beyond the sharp boundaries that separate human and microbe as distinct entities, they give an artistic expression to the complex symbiotic modes between them. Güneş-Helen Isitan’s work Hybridities: Almost Other creates images of human-microbe symbiosis by mobilizing certain scientific tools and discourses and the possibilities of photographic medium. A “microbe-image” emerges as a result of multi-species interaction and is produced by traversing multi-sites. Its apparatus contains its own production process as a problematic knot to be posed. This requires approaching the work with a certain ethnographic sensibility. As a result, manufacturing life through microbe-images becomes inseparable from technical, scientific, social, methodological, and philosophical issues that are weaved in Hybridities: Almost Other’s “biophotographic” apparatus. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png NanoEthics Springer Journals

Manufacturing Life Through Science and Art Interaction: Güneş-Helen Isitan’s Hybridities: Almost Other

Sünter, Emre
NanoEthics , Volume 16 (2) – Aug 1, 2022
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022
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1871-4757
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10.1007/s11569-022-00412-3
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Abstract

With the findings of microbiome studies, many artists have begun to focus on environments where microbe-human interactions take place. Beyond the sharp boundaries that separate human and microbe as distinct entities, they give an artistic expression to the complex symbiotic modes between them. Güneş-Helen Isitan’s work Hybridities: Almost Other creates images of human-microbe symbiosis by mobilizing certain scientific tools and discourses and the possibilities of photographic medium. A “microbe-image” emerges as a result of multi-species interaction and is produced by traversing multi-sites. Its apparatus contains its own production process as a problematic knot to be posed. This requires approaching the work with a certain ethnographic sensibility. As a result, manufacturing life through microbe-images becomes inseparable from technical, scientific, social, methodological, and philosophical issues that are weaved in Hybridities: Almost Other’s “biophotographic” apparatus.

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NanoEthics – Springer Journals

Published: Aug 1, 2022

Keywords: Science and art interaction; Bioart; Microbiome studies; Microbe-images; Apparatus; Multi-sited/multi-species ethnography

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