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Guy Ben-Ary is LA born artist and scientist who works in SimbioticA (Australia). He combines media arts and science practicing biotechnology (neurobiology, stem cells), cybernetics, kinetics, artificial live, interactive and sound art.

He is creating semi-living creatures from neural cells and make their signals responsive to multimedia objects. 'CellF' is a re-embodiment experiment, where the musician is created from the artist's skin cells, which were integrated into neural nets that can be stimulated by other human musicians. Stimulated neurons send the signals to analog synthesizers. The course of our time and the progression of the technology makes us merge different fields of science and art, creating new inter-disciplinary directions of disciplines. Guy’s works often wants us to reflect on the memory, ethics and cryogenic in the technical future, opening a wide technical and practical dialogue where we can re-valuate our own perceptions and beliefs about it. It’s an exploration of the intersection between science and art that is talking about life and death, cybernetic and artificial life. The neurobiology re-embodiment investigates the transformation process from artistic, philosophical and ethic perspectives and opens the questions about the morality of scientific challenges, consciousness status of the semi-living entities, artificial life, the nature of thoughts, free will and neural dysfunctions. In one of his works he gives a neural network a chance of its manifestation through a robotic hand, so in that way he established a feedback loop between the robotics and the biological brain. He is thinking what kind of robotic body he wants to give to his external brain-cells. Guy also warn us that we live in a world where the human threats other living entities with arrogance and superiority so the purpose of the artworks is also to make us start thinking regard our treatment towards them.

The art is taking an important role giving a critical reflection in a historically important cultural moment when we are living in an era of unprecedented evolution of bio-technologies, which is defying out traditional perception of life. Art has the power to initiate a public debate about the existence of liminal lives and the forces that govern and determine life and death. It allows our imagination and perception to put the technologies forward absurd and futuristic scenarios.

THE FULL ARTICLE: http://www.clotmag.com/guy-ben-ary