Adam Zaretsky (USA) / Biography
DANGEROUS LIASONS

These are documents from the Transgenic Pheasant Embryology Art and Science Laboratory taught by Adam Zaretsky at the University of Leiden as a part of an Honors Course called, Vivoarts, Art and Biology Studio. Held by the Arts and Genomics Centre, this hands-on perfomance art wet-lab was documented in order to stimulate debate about the use of new biological methods for permanent alteration of genetic inheritance.

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION: Dangerous Liasons (12:28), NL, in English and Dutch, English subtitles, color, stereo, DVD, 2007
PHOTO CREDITS: Adam Zaretsky, Dangerous Liasons, 2007-2008. © 2007 Photos by Jennifer Willet


HYBRIDS
MAKING FIRE
MALAMP UK
DECON
ICH VERGLEICHE MICH ZU DIR
DANGEROUS LIASONS
TREMOR
George Gessert
Joe Davis
Brandon Ballengee
Marta de Menezes
Verena Kaminiarz
Adam Zaretsky
Kathleen Rogers

CONTENTS

DVD-ROM 1
I. ARTIFICIAL BUT ACTUAL: Artificial Life
II. LIMITS OF MODELING: Evolutionary Design
III. SHINING PROSTHESES: Robotics

DVD-ROM 2
IV. BODY AS TECHNOLOGY: Techno-body Modification
V. MORE THAN A COPY, LESS THAN NOTHINGNESS: Bio and Genetic Engineering
VI. SEMI-LIVING: Tissue and Stem Cells Engineering
VII. POST SCRIPTUM: Re-Coding