Show must go on? Problems of bio art preservation in the example <i>Plant~Animals</i> (2021–) by Elvin Flamingo

Milewska, Sonia

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Show must go on? Problems of bio art preservation in the example Plant~Animals (2021–) by Elvin Flamingo

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Author(s): Sonia Milewska

Publication date (Print): July 2022

Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2022 (EVA 2022)

Conference theme: Use of new and emerging technologies in Digital Art, Data, Scientific and Creative Visualisation, Digitally Enhanced Reality and Everyware, 2D and 3D Imaging, Display and Printing, Mobile Applications, Museums and Collections, Music, Performing arts, and Technologies, Open Source and Technologies, Preservation of Digital Visual Culture, Virtual Cultural Heritage, Ethical Issues, Historical Issues, Digital Culture, Artificial Intelligence, NFTs

Conference date: 4–8 July 2022

Keywords: Media art preservation, Bio art, Contemporary art conservation

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The paper examines problems of exhibiting, storing and preserving of media art. I demonstrate the challenges of exposure and maintenance of artworks with non-human habitats using the example of Elvin Flamingo's bio art installation Plant~Animals (2021–). Bioethics will be discussed in relation to bio art display and conservation, as well as the study of co-authorship. The paper aims to show that posthumanist rhetoric has a significant role in the preservation of Elvin Flamingo's works of art. I investigate various conservation strategies for works from the Symbiosity of Creation series, including the use of virtual reality in the preservation of media art.

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Sonia Milewska

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Publication date: July 2022

Publication date (Print): July 2022

Pages: 234-240

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2022.44

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2022

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Conference location: London

Conference date: 4–8 July 2022

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[1] M. Bakke (2012), Bio-transfiguracje. Sztuka i estetyka posthumanizmu, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu.

[2] Elvin Flamingo’s website , http://www.elvinflamingo.com (retrieved 10 January 2022).

[3] E. Flamingo (2014), Jarosław Czarnecki aka Elvin Flamingo, Symbiotyczność tworzenia / Symbiosity of Creation, (catalogue of exhibition), Gdańska Galeria Miejska.

[4] D. Haraway (2003), The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.

[5] J. Hauser (2005), 'Bio Art - Taxonomy of an Etymological Monster', in G. Stocker and Ch. Schöpf (eds.), Hybrid. Living in a Paradix (Ars Electronica catalog), pp.182-193.

[6] H. B. Hölling (2017), Paik’s Virtual Archive: Time, Change, and Materiality in Media Art, Oakland: University of California Press.

[7] E. Kac (2007), Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond, The MIT Press.

[8] R. W. Kluszczyński (2012),'The Aesthetic of Reason and Care', in Crude Life. The Tissue Culture & Art Project: Oron Catts + Ionat Zurr. Art+Science Meeting, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Łaźnia, pp.72-91.

[9] V. Krajewska and P. Krajewski (2015), 'Symbiotyczność tworzenia Elvina Flamingo aka Jarosława Czarneckiego', Prace Kulturoznawcze, vol. 18, pp.59-63.

[10] B. Latour (2005), An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. reassembling the social oxford, Oxford University Press.

[11] Living Matter. The Preservation of Biological Materials in Contemporary Art Conference, Mexico City 2019, Getty Conservation Institute https://www.getty.edu/conservation/living_matter.ht ml (retrieved 25 February 2022).

[12] V. Vesna (2011), ‘Science Labs as Artist Studios’, in Towards the Third Culture: The Co-Existence of Art, Science, and Technology. Art+Science Meeting, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Łaźnia, pp.15-21.

[13] J. Zylinska (2009), Bioethics in the Age of New Media, The MIT Press.