Created artwork and text develops from my response to the interaction between social and scientific cultures. The activities of extending life, facilitating death and maintaining homeostasis are characteristic to all living matter within their respective environments. Human cultural values, like organic bodies, also go through processes that will determine perpetuation or decline. Human values and scientific values are not exempt from the other's influence in the progression of either realms.
In the experimental context, the systems of the macro/micro body are in constant conversation with proximal stimulus, which includes the researcher who may influence any of the biological phenomena. Emerging evidence from the use of technology and scientific method will affect the researcher's expectation and preconception of the subject matter. By combining laboratory and traditional medias, the creative process expands, providing novel methods for art-making and invention. Developed artwork and text from these interests in turn encourage public inquiry and education about scientific research.
The artwork provides the viewing audience of all intellectual levels to access the applied language, issues and tools in a public forum, via physical or virtual presentation, allowing for critical thinking or exchange of opinions. As an artist, researcher and medical professional, I position myself in the middle of philosophical and technical conventions, to facilitate mediation and understanding of how scientific development affect diverse cultural values in modern society.
- Julia Reodica
