bioart

[Paul Frank]

The word bioart is new to me and is not listed in any dictionary I've seen. From a New York Times article:

Zaretsky, who describes himself as "between academic gigs," has had numerous run-ins with university ethics and animal-use committees, which he describes as "rent-a-priests." In one case, he was not allowed to stage a project at San Francisco State University called the "Workhorse Zoo," in which he sealed himself in a glass room for a week with albino frogs, mice, flies, microscopic worms and an actively growing yeast culture - in other words, a group of typical scientific test subjects - and ended up eating some of the frogs, fish and mice as any predator desperate for a meal would.

More here: http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/03/news/bioart.php

Paul
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Paul Frank
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