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The Resilient Organism is a speculative project researching & creating alternative life based on the genes of cockroaches.
We are Two art students developing a new organism
We are Mart Verschuren & Huib Scholten. We started The Resilient Organism as a research project at the art academy.
The Resilient Organism. Is a speculative project researching & creating alternative life based on the genes of the cockroaches.
Why,
We are entering a major crossroads in human history. We can seek innovation, make it to the final frontier, make cleaner energy, and colonise other worlds. But in the current conjuncture, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. We as humans will not be able to survive if we continue to pollute the earth.
How,
Researching the gnome of the cockroaches shows us why they are super resilient and adaptable. Their genome includes code for neutralising toxins, regrowing limbs and a thousand genes for detecting food and chemicals.
What,
Cockroaches can be the solution for humanity to survive in the future. We are creating alternative life by using CRISPR technology, changing the existing human DNA into a new form based on the genes of the cockroaches.
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The Resilient Organism
This is what happens when you don't teach art or science in school.
I can just picture these 2 dudes smoking a joint in their dorm room, and watching "The Fly".
Spoiler: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x30c5dw
What a movie that was!
First of, this Art is not my cup of tea. But just for the sake of argument, and ethics and science aside: If you're into Shock Art ... it might serve a purpose (shock value, new way of thinking about a problem, try googling !NSFW!"giant poo sculptures prove 'contemporary art is not s***'" ), but using whatever DNA techniques to create a (Frankenstein) super-bug/ human is likely to add to the problem instead of solving it.
I'm older and not easily shocked by a couple of bloody pictures or a dystopian worldview and have seen weird Art. The last person to really try to create a super-race about 75 years earlier wasn't (to put it mildly) a really ethical person. Please study science, art, music and history. (Thanks to the internet a lot is free. See http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses) Then think, express and make the world a better, happier, funny, place. Life is short!