Larry Achiampong & David Blandy | Genetic Automata from galapagos finches evolution Watch Video
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Description: In this short video, artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy discuss their new Arts Catalyst Commission 'Genetic Automata', which forms the first part of an ambitious new body of works by the artists, exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, video games, and DNA Ancestry testing. nnReferencing the history of the theory of evolution, and the relationship between Darwin and his taxidermy teacher John Edmonstone, a freed slave, the work takes the form of a video installation combining an
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