ÇAĞDAŞ SANATTA GENETİK

Genetik sanat, DNA’yı içeren sanattır. Sanatta genetik, uzun bir süre önce daha çok bir fotoğrafçı olarak bilinen Edward Steichen’ın, 1936’da MoMA’da hibrit delfinyum çiçeklerini sergilemesi ile varlığını göstermesine rağmen, son yirmi yıldır daha çok ilgi görmektedir. Günümüzde bilgisayarın hızı, veri depolamadaki iyileştirmeler, çizim programlarındaki çeşitlilik, dijital araçlarda maliyetin azalması gibi nedenler teknolojiye ve biyoteknolojiye yakınlığı arttırmanın yanı sıra bilimsel keşiflere duyulan merak, bilimsel uygulamaları estetik geleneği içinde yorumlama isteği, sanat ve bilimi aynı paydada buluşturuyor. Vücudun genetiğinden ve genetik üzerine yapılan araştırmalardan etkilenen bazı sanatçılar, genetiğe yönelik otoradyograflar ve kromozomlar gibi görsel imgeler ve işaretleri kullanırlar. Sanatçılar bazen DNA’nın bilinen formundan etkilenirken; bazen bir kişinin genetik kodları ve oranı türe özgü olan; A (adenin), T (timin) , G (guanin), C (sitozin)’in harflerinin sembolik olarak gösterilmesi ile yaratım sürecine girmektedirler. Çoğunlukla ten üzerine odaklanan sanat için, bedenin içyapısı, soyut dünyası sanatsal açıdan oldukça verimlidir. Betimsel tarama modelli olan bu araştırmada genetiğin çağdaş sanattaki yeri, DNA’ya odaklanan bazı sanatçıların yapıtları ışığında değerlendirilmiştir.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Genetik, Biyo-sanat, DNA, Çağdaş Sanat, Sanat

GENETIC IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Genetic art is the art involving DNA. Genetics in art has long attracted much attention over the past twodecades, although Edward Steichen, known as a photographer, exhibited hybrid delfinium flowers at MoMAlong ago in 1936. Today, the reasons such as the speed of the computer, data storage improvements, diversityof drawing programs, the cost of digital tools increase in technology and biotechnology, as well as the curiosityof scientific discoveries, the desire to interpret scientific applications in the aesthetic tradition, art and sciencebrings together in the same field. Some artists who are affected by the genetics of the body and research ongenetics use visual images and signs such as autoradiographs and chromosomes. Artists are sometimesinfluenced by the known form of DNA; sometimes a person's genetic codes and proportion are speciesspecific; A (adenine), T (thymine), G (guanine), C (cytosine) letters are entered into the process of creation bysymbolic display. For art, which mostly focuses on the skin, the body's internal structure and abstraction areartistically efficient. In this descriptive survey model, the place of genetics in contemporary art has beenevaluated in the light of the works of some artists focusing on DNA.

Keywords:

Genetics, Bio-art, DNA, Contemporary Art, Art,

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