Verena Kaminiarz (Canada) / Biography
ICH VERGLEICHE MICH ZU DIR
I Compare Myself with You

Ich Vergleiche Mich Zu Dir (I Compare Myself with You) focuses on planaria, a type of flatworm that has the ability to regenerate body tissues. For this project, I caused the planaria to grow a second head. The piece consists of a digital video of the altered worm that shows its endless search for an undefined and unreachable goal. Often a visible struggle between the two heads occurs and the viewer is confronted with the spectacle of an uncanny decision being made. The piece alternates between failure and success, the successfully altered worm becomes a failure as it attempts to control its own basic decision making processes. I believe that this oscillation between failure and success mirrors the processes of genetic research in a larger sense, as the successes of today may become the demons and monsters of tomorrow.

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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