The transhuman revolution, where art and technology call into question the perimeter of whatever constitutes humanity, continues unabated:
One of the central works in the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May), Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells taken from mice, has died.
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Paola Antonelli, … curator of the show, says she had to make the decision to turn off the life-support system for the work, basically “killing” it…. “I’ve always been pro-choice and all of a sudden I’m here not sleeping at night about killing a coat…”
I saw pics of this on an art magazine just this past week. The piece was tiny, kept alive with a steady flow of nutrient and fluids. Very bizarre. So it died, huh?