Bios, Techne, Logos: una carrera artística oportuna

Abstract

La palabra Bioarte no es simplemente un hibrido, es también un término cambiante y que ha proliferado. El ascenso de la biología al estatus de ciencia física “más actual” ha ido acompañado, por un lado, del uso desproporcionado de las metáforas biológicas, en las disciplinas académicas que estudian la cultura y, por otro lado, de una amplia serie de procedimientos biotécnicos que proporcionan simultáneamente a los artistas los temas para su trabajo y los medios expresivos para realizarlo

Bioarte is not simply a hybrid, is also a mutant term that proliferates. The ascent of Biology to estatus of “present” physical science has gone accompanied, on the one hand, of the inflationary use of the biological metaphors in the academic disciplines that study the culture and, on the other hand, of an ample series of biotécnicos procedures that simultaneously provide to the artists the expressive subjects for their work and means to make it. In the last years: Bioarte has not unfolded nor developed in agreement with the prescribed masterful codes of a determined post-vanguardista manifesto; instead of this, it has been put under a process of social drift and several influences from his aesthetic surroundings