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Biological Creations


Didonet Thomaz y Raúl Niño Bernal


Image 1. Didonet Thomaz. Biological Creations, 2022. Electron Micrograph of the Biological Sample I (inner skin), B&W, various sizes.
Image 1. Didonet Thomaz. Biological Creations, 2022. Electron Micrograph of the Biological Sample I (inner skin), B&W, various sizes.

The non-human species constitute a vast biomass all through the Earth´s biodiversity, in all its ecosystems. The perspective adopted this series of visual essays explores the creative and artistic possibilities contained in rabbit hides, which, over time, having undergone enzyme and protein transformation processes, succeed in maintaining in the inner state of the skin, either vestiges or protuberances. Thanks to biotechnology and its various devices, the knowledge available to us about the biological circumstances of long historic periods has undergone changes that allow us to talk about esthetic considerations as dimensions of what is possible in the transgenic or bioluminescent processes, conditions that expand the scientific and, therefore, technological spaces.


They reveal that the poetic relationships of genetic interpretations displayed on biological maps based on the analysis of images on a micro scale can be used to understand the life of microorganisms inside the rabbit hide, in addition to a field of knowledge of microelectronic images, with the purpose of revealing possible worlds, homeostatic structures on a biological scale, which represent DNA and RNA conditions and their transformation processes that photo synthesis accomplishes in biologic organisms and which, later, were found in

the form of plasma sheaths or membranes.


Such non-human exploration consists of integration with technology, with the purpose of interpreting the processes which biological species have undergone over their timelines. In this one in particular, we wanted to highlight that it advances toward a theme of symbiosis in combination with technology, without which it would be impossible to view microorganisms. The methodology underlying this process one of possibility, as long as there is life.



Image 2. Didonet Thomaz. Biological Creations, 2022. Electron Micrograph of the Biological Sample I (inner skin), B&W, various sizes.
Image 2. Didonet Thomaz. Biological Creations, 2022. Electron Micrograph of the Biological Sample I (inner skin), B&W, various sizes.

Image 3. Didonet Thomaz. Biological Creations, 2022. Electron Micrograph of the Biological Sample I (inner skin), B&W, various sizes.
Image 3. Didonet Thomaz. Biological Creations, 2022. Electron Micrograph of the Biological Sample I (inner skin), B&W, various sizes.

Image 4. Didonet Thomaz. Biological Creations, 2022. Electron Micrograph of the Biological Sample II (inner skin), B&W, various sizes.
Image 4. Didonet Thomaz. Biological Creations, 2022. Electron Micrograph of the Biological Sample II (inner skin), B&W, various sizes.

Image 5. Didonet Thomaz. Biological Creations, 2022. Electron Micrograph of the Biological Sample IV (inner skin), B&W, various sizes.
Image 5. Didonet Thomaz. Biological Creations, 2022. Electron Micrograph of the Biological Sample IV (inner skin), B&W, various sizes.

AUTHORS


Didonet Thomaz. Artist. PhD in Technology (UTFPR, 2015). Post-doctorate in Visual Arts (UFRGS, 2017). Her works may be found in both private and public collections, like “Irregular Polytopes” (MON, 2019), along with the author’s edition, 2019. E-mail: didonetthomaz@teatromonotono.art.br ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6207-8776 Curitiba, Brazil.

Raúl Niño Bernal. PhD in Political Science. Head of the Esthetics Department of the School of Architecture and Design of the Pontifical Xavierian University. Research Professor of the Esthetics Group, New Technologies and Inhabitability. Academic advisor of this visual essay. Email: raul.nino@javeriana.edu.co ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7563-5778 Bogotá, Colombia.



LINKS ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS WITH MORE INFORMATION



DIDONET THOMAZ, Vera Lucia; NIÑO BERNAL, Raúl. Considerações estéticas em espécies não humanas. Ensaio visual I em PDF. In: Existências: Anais do 31º Encontro Nacional da ANPAP. Recife (PE) On-line: Editora Even3, 2022, p.1-10. ISBN 978-65-5941-887-9. DOI: 10.29327/31ENANPAP2022.513110 Disponível em: https://www.even3.com.br/anais/31ENANPAP2022/513110-CONSIDERACOES-ESTETICAS-EM-ESPECIES-NAO-HUMANAS


DIDONET THOMAZ, Vera Lucia; NIÑO BERNAL, Raúl. Considerações estéticas em espécies não humanas. Ensaio visual I em vídeo, 2022 (3'), cor. In: Estúdio ANPAP 2022 - Existências: 31⁰ Encontro Nacional da ANPAP. Recife PE, 2022. Disponível em: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkxhggwJZj8


DIDONET THOMAZ, Vera Lucia; NIÑO BERNAL, Raúl. Creaciones biológicas. Ensayo visual II en Presentación de trabajo. In: ENTROPIA 2022, evento que aglutina el SIIMI - IX Simposio Internacional de Innovación en Medios Interactivos, el #21.ART – 21º Encuentro Internacional de Arte y Tecnología y el 9th. Balance-Unbalance (BunB) - arts + sciences x technology = environment / responsibility. MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 4 de noviembre de 2002.


DIDONET THOMAZ, Vera Lucia; NIÑO BERNAL, Raúl. Creaciones biológicas. Ensayo visual em PDF II. In: ISSN 2358-0488 - Anais do IX Simpósio Internacional de Inovação em Mídias Interativas. ISSN 2238-0272 - Anais do 21º Encontro Internacional de Arte y Tecnologia. 9th. Balance - Unbalance. Entropías 2022. ROCHA, Cleomar; VENTURELLI, Suzete; CRUZ, Daniel. (Orgs.). Santiago, Chile: Universidad de Chile; MediaLab Brasil, 2002. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7515658 Disponível em: https://siimi.medialab.ufg.br/p/44853-anais-2022


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