Bioart - an experiment that could change the future of life?

Bioscience artists "invade" unusual fields of literature and art, challenging and questioning the boundaries set by natural growth processes and the normative order of modern society. Cates believes that the art of bioscience is not what science or technology can conceive, but a cultural examination of action. If, after a few decades, artificially modified and hybridized cells divide to form tissues, new mutated organisms, including mutants, and then entire ecosystems, can the contemporary human value balance sustain such a view of life?

In this "revolution" of life, the Measuring Commune and the Bioart Lab are actively connecting universities, companies, organizations and private institutions around the world. The Survey Commune also holds workshops, competitions, lectures, publications, resident studies, exhibitions and other activities on a regular basis.

They attract professionals from all fields to participate in research and debate, open laboratories to the public and the media, and use the art of bioscience to convey and update ethical cultural concepts. This interference with the established social order and cultural ethical boundaries is actually a social movement with political implications.

Marleen Stikker, founder of Measurement Commune, once predicted that "the future of biotechnology will be like the Internet of things, which will penetrate every aspect of society in an invisible form... We want to work with designers and artists to bring knowledge into the public domain, because no one can predict what the consequences of user-generated DNA will be."

A few hundred years ago, anatomy was considered a violation of religious ethics and was rejected by the general public. A few decades ago, artists themselves could not imagine that biological tissue could serve as a material medium on the color palette. Art, through exquisite or grotesque aesthetic effects, presents possible situations to the public in advance, which Cates believes is the "alternative social contract" of artists. The unease caused by the work is actually the author's own distress, which is intended to make contemporary society jump out of the current development track, think and explore among the many options that have not yet happened, in order to make the best choice for the common ecological future.

A spokesperson for the Bioart Lab said: "It is a historical tradition that ethical boundaries should be broken. It is a collective responsibility to test these boundaries. Art is an ideal tool to explore the surface of the unknown, very different from the ivory tower of scientific research."

Lucas said, "You know Dunne&Raby? Yes, he teaches in the Design Interaction Department at the Royal College of Art and is the author of Everything Conjecture: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreams. Their fiction is far more than reality, and their projects are relatively simple to improve the human race through technology, prolong life, maximize human function, etc., without seeking public opinion. I don't entirely agree with the critical theory of Dunn and Rabi, as opposed to focusing on the development of superindividuals, technology should be composed of a variety of complex ethical elements. The art of bioscience is a field full of contradictions, and not many artists practice it. In addition, the art of biological science lacks theoretical foundation in the Netherlands, and the design class focuses on functionality and is more practical."