GINA CZARNECKI
Gina Czarnecki sat on the art and science panel and discussed the wider context of her current collaborative practice focussing on joint productions with scientists and biotechnologists. She presented two works in which panellist Keith Skene was involved, Infected and Silvers Alter, 2002-03 (Interactive digital installation) included in the Designer Bodies exhibition.

"In Gina Czarnecki’s Silvers Alter, the responsibility for what to do with the techniques of genetic engineering with regard to its potential application to our own species is handed over to us. This is a scary thought, but if we don’t take responsibility for it, it’s even scarier to imagine who will."
Alex Farquharson In CleanRooms Catalogue, 2003

Gina Czarnecki works mainly in time-based and digital media making single screen, photographic and installation works. Her work focuses on the human; the physical, biological and psychological. More recently this has been concerned with the ethical and cultural issues raised from scientific and technological advances in the fields of genetic engineering, as well as on their future commercial uses. Her work has been exhibited internationally including ISEA 1998 in Liverpool and Ars Electronica 'life sciences' in Linz, Austria in 1999.

Current exhibitions include Infected (in collaboration with Keith Skene) at ACMI Melbourne and in Art in the Biotech Era at Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia. Recipient of Fleck Fellowship at the Banff Centre, Canada and Creative Scotland Award 2002 which in the words of the artist provided ‘once in a life time opportunity to focus on a piece of innovative artistic endeavour such as Silvers Alter (in collaboration with Keith Skene)’. For further details on Silvers Alter please CLICK HERE.

 

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