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- Title
Manufacturing Life Through Science and Art Interaction: Güneş-Helen Isitan's Hybridities: Almost Other.
- Authors
Sünter, Emre
- Abstract
With the findings of microbiome studies, many artists have begun to focus on environments where microbe-human interactions take place. Beyond the sharp boundaries that separate human and microbe as distinct entities, they give an artistic expression to the complex symbiotic modes between them. Güneş-Helen Isitan's work Hybridities: Almost Other creates images of human-microbe symbiosis by mobilizing certain scientific tools and discourses and the possibilities of photographic medium. A "microbe-image" emerges as a result of multi-species interaction and is produced by traversing multi-sites. Its apparatus contains its own production process as a problematic knot to be posed. This requires approaching the work with a certain ethnographic sensibility. As a result, manufacturing life through microbe-images becomes inseparable from technical, scientific, social, methodological, and philosophical issues that are weaved in Hybridities: Almost Other's "biophotographic" apparatus.
- Subjects
MANUFACTURING processes; SYMBIOSIS; ETHNOLOGY
- Publication
NanoEthics, 2022, Vol 16, Issue 2, p197
- ISSN
1871-4757
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11569-022-00412-3