Yesterday was an eventful day that started off at the National Museum of Science and Technology and the Man Machine exhibition. We were out there to be interviewed for the student newspaper at KTH: Osqledaren. The interview is going to be included in the next issue and will probably cover our thoughts on the exhibition and the collaboration with the artists. We're looking forward to present this project to the rest of the school and hopefully more students will be more open to these kinds of interdisciplinary projects.

At the museum we also met Régine Debatty, who writes one of our favorite blogs: We Make Money Not Art. She was also there to check out Man Machine. Later we attended her lecture on biotech art at KKH (Royal University College of Fine Arts).

Biotech art (and biotechnology in general) is a provocative subject and when it's good it makes you reflect on what it means to be human, and how we relate to other species. One good example is the NoArk project that specifically questions the way we categorize species. By mixing living material from humans and animals something new is created, that in some way is living, but we don't categorize it as such. Read more about it here and here.

Biotech art often tries to highlight what we think is acceptable and not, especially in relation to the development of the biotech industry. Asking questions like: To what extent are we allowed to manipulate living species and life? Maybe is it so that as art constantly pushes the limits of what we accept, we get more numb to the progress of the biotech industry (that often seem less scary in comparison) and accept it more. Whether that is good or not, I don't know.