Marta de Menezes (Portugal) / Biography
DECON

Decon: deconstruction, decontamination, decomposition explores the use of biotechnology methods and materials as art media, to develop paintings which are literally alive but deconstruct while exhibited. In Decon replicas of Piet Mondrian geometric paintings are created using bacterial support medium. The colors in these paintings progressively degrade by Pseudomonas putida bacteria. This technology is based in the work of Dr. Ligia Martins, at the Instituto de Biologia Quimica e Biologica in Lisbon, where scientists research biological strategies to degrade highly pollutant textile dyes using bacteria, harmless to human beings and to the environment.

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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

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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