organism: making art with living systems

ROBERT B. LISEK says:

GESPENST / WIDMO / SPECTRE
self-replication of pathogen

new work by ROBERT B. LISEK of Fundamental Research Lab
at LETO Gallery, Warsaw

opening reception:
Friday, October 17, 2008 7-9 pm

exhibition:
17.10 – 12.11. 2008

GALERIA LETO
ul. Hoza 9c
00-528 Warszawa
022 499 59 16, 0501 696 440
www.leto.pl, galeria@leto.pl

The ‘WIDMO /das GESPENST/ SPECTRE’ project, a result of research by the artist at
the Molecular Biology Laboratory of Wroclaw University, explores the relationship
between bio-molecular technology, code and issues arising from network technologies.
With reference to the emerging practice of ‘biotech-art’, the artist aims to represent the
self-replicating behavior of bacteria in order to draw out its wider bio-political significance
in an imagined scenario of bioterrorism.

For the exhibition, the data from the process of self-replication of DNA is represented in
a visual projection and sound installation. As depicts the process, a singular stream of
light and sound grows into a wall of light and sound. ‘Noise’ and errors of micro-
interferences proliferate. The exhibition also comprises luciferase-mediated
bioluminescent bacteria, fluorescent plants (using GFP), paintings and diagrams,
photographic and video documentation from the artist’s research work.

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