Oron Catts
Biographic Data
| ID | 1096324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oron Catts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oron |
| FAMILY NAME | Catts |
| SIGNATURE | CATTS O |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2893-5364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tissues, Cultures, Art
Semi Living Art
Artists working with life (sciences) in contestable settings
As technology is becoming more lifelike and life is becoming a technology, there is a growing need to culturally scrutinize and articulate the meaning(s) of the concept of life. This happens at a time when fact and fake are becoming interchangeable, and the rhetoric of control over complex systems suggests fantasies about human desire for full dominance over the unintentional and constructed world. When it comes to the concept of life, who is cal…
Not Moving—Living
This paper will explore the challenges of presenting unmediated liveness of living tissue engineered sculptures and overcoming the perceptual stillness of the semi-living. By looking at the work of The Tissue Culture & Art Project which since 1996 has used living tissue in its artworks, the author explores the strategies of dealing with the presentation of “aliveness” in living, yet seemingly motionless, “objects”
Disembodied Livestock
Life as a Raw Material
The paper discusses and critiques the concept of the single engineering paradigm. This concepts allude to a future in which the control of matter and life, and life as matter, will be achieved by applying engineering principles; through nanotechnology, synthetic biology and, as some suggest, geo-engineering, cognitive engineering and neuro-engineering. We outline some issues in the short history of the field labelled as Synthetic Biology. Further…
The Ethical Claims of Bio-Art
2004). The Ethical Claims of Bio-Art: Killing The Other Or Self-Cannibalism. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art: Vol. 5, Art & Ethics, pp. 167-188
Growing Semi-Living Sculptures
Tissue engineering promises to replace and repair body organs but has largely been overlooked for artistic purposes. In the last 6 years, the authors have grown tissue sculptures, "semi-living objects," by culturing cells on artificial scaffolds. The goal of this work is to culture and sustain for long periods tissue constructs of varying geometrical complexity and size, and by that process to create a new artistic palette to focus attention on a…
The Ethical Claims of Bio-Art
2004). The Ethical Claims of Bio-Art: Killing The Other Or Self-Cannibalism. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art: Vol. 5, Art & Ethics, pp. 167-188
Growing Semi-Living Sculptures
Tissue engineering promises to replace and repair body organs but has largely been overlooked for artistic purposes. In the last 6 years, the authors have grown tissue sculptures, "semi-living objects," by culturing cells on artificial scaffolds. The goal of this work is to culture and sustain for long periods tissue constructs of varying geometrical complexity and size, and by that process to create a new artistic palette to focus attention on a…
Disembodied Livestock
Life as a Raw Material
The paper discusses and critiques the concept of the single engineering paradigm. This concepts allude to a future in which the control of matter and life, and life as matter, will be achieved by applying engineering principles; through nanotechnology, synthetic biology and, as some suggest, geo-engineering, cognitive engineering and neuro-engineering. We outline some issues in the short history of the field labelled as Synthetic Biology. Further…
Artists working with life (sciences) in contestable settings
As technology is becoming more lifelike and life is becoming a technology, there is a growing need to culturally scrutinize and articulate the meaning(s) of the concept of life. This happens at a time when fact and fake are becoming interchangeable, and the rhetoric of control over complex systems suggests fantasies about human desire for full dominance over the unintentional and constructed world. When it comes to the concept of life, who is cal…
Growing Semi-Living Sculptures
Tissue engineering promises to replace and repair body organs but has largely been overlooked for artistic purposes. In the last 6 years, the authors have grown tissue sculptures, "semi-living objects," by culturing cells on artificial scaffolds. The goal of this work is to culture and sustain for long periods tissue constructs of varying geometrical complexity and size, and by that process to create a new artistic palette to focus attention on a…
The Ethical Claims of Bio-Art
2004). The Ethical Claims of Bio-Art: Killing The Other Or Self-Cannibalism. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art: Vol. 5, Art & Ethics, pp. 167-188
Life as a Raw Material
The paper discusses and critiques the concept of the single engineering paradigm. This concepts allude to a future in which the control of matter and life, and life as matter, will be achieved by applying engineering principles; through nanotechnology, synthetic biology and, as some suggest, geo-engineering, cognitive engineering and neuro-engineering. We outline some issues in the short history of the field labelled as Synthetic Biology. Further…
Disembodied Livestock
Not Moving—Living
This paper will explore the challenges of presenting unmediated liveness of living tissue engineered sculptures and overcoming the perceptual stillness of the semi-living. By looking at the work of The Tissue Culture & Art Project which since 1996 has used living tissue in its artworks, the author explores the strategies of dealing with the presentation of “aliveness” in living, yet seemingly motionless, “objects”
Artists working with life (sciences) in contestable settings
As technology is becoming more lifelike and life is becoming a technology, there is a growing need to culturally scrutinize and articulate the meaning(s) of the concept of life. This happens at a time when fact and fake are becoming interchangeable, and the rhetoric of control over complex systems suggests fantasies about human desire for full dominance over the unintentional and constructed world. When it comes to the concept of life, who is cal…
Tissues, Cultures, Art
Semi Living Art
Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (2 works) · Neuroscience (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sculpture (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)