What Happens When the art IS life?


	What Happens When the art IS life?

wildcat

5-10-2008 5:53 AM

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life, art, biotech

wildcat says:

quite incredible

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Well, then the bio-art starts growing out of control and has to be killed by a lone hero.  Obviously.  That might sound like the script of "Little Shop Of Horrors: The Revenge", but it actually happened in New York this month.</p> </DIV>
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jacket grown from mice embryonic stem cells and kept alive by an
external life-support system.  Yes, you read that right.  Artists,
working with the SymbioticA research laboratory in the University of
Western Australia, grew living tissue into the shape of a tiny leather
jacket and cyborged it up with electrical parts.  Presumably to give
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human use of animals, and it certainly did  - even if only by adding
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