Michal Mitro
Presov. Slovakia
www.michalmitro.com

Project: Test of Sirens

Totalitarian practices of a democratic system often remain unnoticed... perhaps we became habituated to them before we could even realise? In this audio-visual work I present one such practice: test of sirens. It is absolute in its general public reach, beraucratic in its ever-regular occurence and totalitarian in the way it reaches its subjects. Exposed to sirens, we are all treated the same. Just as we are by a 12 o`clock bells afterwards. No matter if it is you, me, or a snail imported from Africa.

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Michal Mitro
Presov Slovakia
www.michalmitro.com

Project: Food

Eat it, drink, spill it, buy it, pay it, trash it...go big you can afforfd it. consume it once again. This video is not about the water, neither about the food. It is about me, you and this society. It is about our everyday practices and about consumer environment we are unexceptionally living in. Being an integral part of the shown story, it should be easy for us to think up the rest…

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Michal Mitro Presov
Presov. Slovakia
www.michalmitro.com

Project: Cup of tea

Dream...image...sound...





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Muriel Montini
France
http://www.murielmontini.fr/

Project: Je vais où je suis I am going where I am

PlantBot Genetics aka Wendy DesChene + Jeff Schmuki
Auburn. USA

Project: Dueling Attackaratus

What is PlantBot Genetics? PlantBot Genetics is a parody biotech corporation that satirically looks at the possible evolution of plant species due to the consequences of modern agricultural practices. Genetically modified food technology is so new that we have no idea what long term effects it will have on those who consume it, the lands on which it is grown, what wide-ranging environmental impact may occur. Monsantra, our company's most widely distributed PlantBot product, is named after the Monsanto Corporation, one of the largest suppliers and producers of genetically modified seed. Like a B-movie Godzilla, PlantBots are a hybrid of imagination, possibility, and reality. We can only guess what will happen to the food supply with subsequent generations of GMO's? Using actual seeds created and patented by the Monsanto Corporation and other suppliers, plants are grafted onto robotic and remote controlled bases to become an organism with no clear heritage and no clear future. The poetic GMO plant robot hybrid hybrids beg the question, what will it all become? Like any other successful biotech, we have expanded our market share to include other projects that look to a larger environment impact. Our most recent Moth Project represents a more direct approach to this form of public practice and scholarship. Dueling Attackartus These PlantBots are so fierce and hardy that when PlantBot Geneticists find one, they immediately (at great risks to themselves) try to contain it in a sealed container for study. Attackaratus is a SuperBug specimen resistant to the inserted Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt gene in modified crops designed to kill insects. It is inevitable that resistance builds with each insect generation and our first-rate team of etymologists is hopeful the Attackaratus will be contained. Thus far, current pesticides cannot destroy increasing populations of these bugs. These PlantBots are extremely aggressive towards each other and when placed side by side become extremely agitated.

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Rafael Miralles
Alicante. Spain
www.rafaelmiralles.com

Project: Grecomania

2014 año Greco, Toledo celebra el cuarto centenario de la muerte del pintor cretense.




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