The expansive field of synthetic biology has the power to transform modern life. As we redesign and redeploy organisms to new ends, create new materials, and pursue the construction of novel life-forms, we confront deep questions about Homo sapiens, the “wise human,” and our manifold capacities of creation, destruction, recklessness, renewal, and hope. What forms of life will we choose to cultivate? What will we nurture, and what might we leave behind? With whom does agency reside in this moment of making, learning, and living with? Emergence invites the public to explore these questions together while being inspired by iconic bio artworks, lab-based discoveries and design solutions, and the provocations of a range of wildly creative thinkers. Emergence probes changing definitions of what is natural, synthetic, conscious, and essential to existence.
Photo of Oron Catts in the Alkaline Hydrolysis chamber as part of 3SDC project, by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr in collaboration with Steve Berrick, PS Art Space. Fremantle, Western Australia 2022. Photography by Daniel Grant, Fremantle 2022, used with permission.
Fathomers presented at Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
244 San Pedro Street, Los Angeles
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