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Bio Art: Life Imitates Art. But What Happens When the art IS life?


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Well, then the bio-art starts growing out of control and has to be killed by a lone hero.  Obviously.  That might sound like the script of "Little Shop Of Horrors: The Revenge", but it actually happened in New York this month.


The organic art in question was the piece "Victimless Leather", a tiny jacket grown from mice embryonic stem cells and kept alive by an external life-support system.  Yes, you read that right.  Artists, working with the SymbioticA research laboratory in the University of Western Australia, grew living tissue into the shape of a tiny leather jacket and cyborged it up with electrical parts.  Presumably to give Tom Thumb either a stylish biodegradable look or nightmares for life.

The mini-flesh-threads were designed to raise questions about human use of animals, and it certainly did  - even if only by adding the questions "What the hell are they doing with that jacket?"

Is that terrible or awesome?"