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Ionat Zurr
The Tissue Culture & Art Project explores the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression and investigates relationships with the different gradients of life through the construction/growth of a new class of object/being - the 'Semi-Living'. The works comprise complex organisms, sustained outside of the body and coerced to grow in predetermined shapes, bringing into question perceptions of life and identity and the position of the human in relation to other living beings and the environment.
The Tissue C...
Emile Zile
At eighteen, Emile Zile, who grew up in Melbourne, Australia, had a cathartic experience. He was a member of the studio audience present at the recording of a television quiz, and was asked to participate as a candidate. At that moment, his interest in the quintessence of the medium television was given concrete shape in that Game Show. Everything he did after that was 'life after fame', to put it sarcastically. Emile Zile's performance in that Game Show makes an unforgettable impression, for that matter. You realize at once that in the world of the media he is a phenomenon. His qualitie...
