Name: Effie Halivopoulou
Country Of Origin: Greece
Country Now Residing: Greece
Title: DataBase and I suspended
Looking at the inside of the body through the electronic microscope is like being on a fairground for visual artists. The body is all there, wide open to suggestions, alterations and planned interventions. Its mystery is replaced by archives of digital data. Its familiarity-we dwell on it- is transformed into numerals and graphs. In the virtual cortex my everlasting genes coexist with the genes of every other human being on the planet. A new aspect of the body that challenges interaction, change and fluidity is on its way. And yet, this primeval soup, the gene pool, is there, available to everybody, only because technology permits it.
This is a detail of an installation entitled “DataBase and I suspended” (2003),which deals with biotechnological issues. Cells in the process of multiplication, neurons in the process of firing information through their synaptic gaps, cells in mutation. The human body is located into the war area of the different biotechnological opinions.
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