Artists Statement

Installation 2009  ongoing

Common Flowers/White Out uses Suntory Flowers’ genetically modified blue carnation as a model organism. The goal of this project is to remove the genetic modification responsible for the blue colour and return the flower to its ‘original’ white state. This double genetic manipulation questions concepts of change, nature and manipulation and asks for a counter-model of our shared biofuture.

This project is part of the international co-operation Exchange Emergences between the Japan Media Arts Festival (jp) and the Coded Cultures Festival (at).

BCL  is an artistic collaborative research framework.

• Shiho Fukuhara (JP) graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Central St Martins College of Art and Design in London and an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art. She has been artist-in-residence at Le Pavilion at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2004), at IAMAS (Japan, 2006), at ISEA 2008 (Singapore) and AmbientTV (UK, 2008).
• Georg Tremmel (AT) studied Visual Media Art in Vienna and Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art. Currently, he works as a researcher at the University of Tokyo’s Human Genome Center in the Laboratory of DNA Information Analysis.

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