░ BIO:ART SEA:T ░

突如其來COVID-19的大流行，似乎訴說著社會已經從「人類世」(Anthropocene) 進入「微生物世」(Microbiocene) 的時代。且隨著合成生物學的發展，生物藝術 (Bioart) 在全球當代藝術領域引起許多討論。而 BIO:ART SEA:T 計畫正因疫情的流行，東南亞與台灣跨域的藝術家藉由生物藝術實踐，觀察當代社會運行軌跡的轉變。跨科學、生物、藝術的合作，開展對微生物、人類身體、社會環境各面向的討論，並建構亞洲脈絡的生物藝術觀點。

About Project

Through the current global experience of Covid-19 pandemic, it is said that we have entered from the ‘Anthropocene’ into the era of ‘Microbiocene’. The steady development and recognition of synthetic biology means that humans today have enlarged its capacity to understand Nature at its deepest cellular level, and can now alter, invent and augment the future of species and organisms. It is precisely because of the COVID-19 pandemic that cross-regional artivists in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, through their practices and observations of the changes in the trajectory of contemporary society, have jointly discussed microbes, human bodies, and the social environment in various fields. Therefore, this BIO:ART SEA:T project invites interdisciplinary artists from the perspectives of biology, technology, art, environment, and social culture and more to lead the audiences to think about the transformation of human society and how to live together in the future.

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