WEDNESDAY 19TH FEBRUARY 2003

BIO TECH SUMMARY

Group Preparation Notes for Public Discussion Forum, Colchester 19/02/03

Key issues and concerns that came through the Bio_Tech InterChange

Key topics

• Models of Collaboration
• Methodology
• Biotech Projects Overview
• Body
• Self / Social (New Consciousness)
• New Consciousness

Models of Collaboration

• Convergence / Divergence
• Convergence vs. Conflation

Methodologies

• Tensions and crisis
• Language, terminology
• Deconstruction/analysis of variety of methodologies from different discipline
• New ‘hybrid’ methods?
• ‘Adopt’ and ‘adapt’ methods?
• History not coming out of nowhere
• Using both established institutions and infrastructures and radical/independents/alternative structures and developing new ones
• History but change and flux, constant emerging

Bio-Tech Projects Overview

• With a conscious relationship to technology (tech to measure & model)
• Virtualisation of body on threshold
  • Immediacy
  • Technology <-> Physicality
  • Presence
  • Desire <-> Fear
• Similar Patterns in images form diff disc
• Internal <-> External
  • Deep cellular - External -> Seek resolution
  • In context of ‘panic culture’
• Spirituality
• Memory
  • Body memory, Techs of memory
  • Social memory
• New Consciousness
  • New paradigm(s)
  • Rights
  • Different consciousness / shifts in
• Empirical information / Data
• Delay of Information
• Interference
• Audience

Body

• Body as key site for investigation
• Adding & ‘Undoing’
• Technologies & Body (including Skills, Hardware)

Self/Social

• Identity
• Rights & Responsibilities
• ‘Context’ driven identity etc
• ‘Being’ in same space (individuals from different backgrounds)

OTHER KEY ISSUES

Evaluation

‘Pre-Linguistic’ state

The Audience

• What does the artist intend to produce?