
BioKino Group
Tanya Visosevic (b.1971, Adelaide, Australia)
Guy Ben-Ary (b.1967, Los Angeles, USA)
Artists, researchers. In 2005, Visosevic and Ben-Ary founded the art group BioKino, which explores the interface between BioArt and film theory. The Living Screen, which projects Nano Movies (500 microns in size) on a screen made of various living tissues and cells, was exhibited for the first time in 2006 at the John Curtin Gallery (Perth, Australia).
In her works, Tanya Visosevic employs the technologies and strategies of the moving image and communication media to explore new cultural and philosophical terrains. Her works have been showcased in contemporary art exhibitions, including Electrofringe (Newcastle Regional Gallery, Newcastle, 2003-04), Mobile Journeys (Opera House Studio, Sydney, 2005), Nemesis (Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, 2006) and VideoDromo 1.5 (24HrArt, Darwin, 2007). She obtained an Australia Council Fellowship (2004) and BEAP Fellowship (2005). Visosevic is currently employed as Lecturer at the School of Communication and Contemporary Art at the Edith Cowan University (Perth, Western Australia).
Guy Ben-Ary specializes in digital imaging and artistic visualization of biological data and the development of interfaces between organic and non-organic systems. He was a member of the Tissue Culture & Art Project (1999-2003). Since 2000, he has been a member of SymbioticA Research Group (Perth, Australia). Ben-Ary has participated in Ars Electronica (Linz, 2000, 2001), Deluxe Media Art (Sydney, 2000), BEAP (Perth, 2002), ArtBot (New York, 2003), Ciber@RT (Bilbao, 2004), 1st MBCA (Moscow, 2005) and Artrage Festival (Perth, 2006). He has given lectures at Oxford University (UK), the National University of Singapore (Singapore), the Humboldt University (Germany) and Tel Aviv University (Israel). Ben-Ary currently works at the Department of Anatomy and Human Biology for the University of Western Australia (Perth).