Interviews of experts

Introduction

We interviewed some experts about the link between science and art, bioart and more precisely about questions our project raise. We questioned a diverse community of scientist, sociologist, artist and professor of ethic.

Experts

Therese BICHON as "the artist"

Thérèse Bichon is an artist living in Paris. She has studied and put into practice: the history of art and archeology in 1980, the nursing home: 1982, 1986 carpentry, landscaping 1998, architecture 2007.Wondering about the opportunities that society could offer to develop her love of creation, nature and human, she alternately or simultaneously turned to the world of work, studies and that of creation.

Alexei GRINBAUM as "the scientist"

Alexei Grinbaum is a researcher at the LARSIM laboratory in the CEA-Saclay near Paris about the Foundations of physics. He belongs to the Cerna (commission de réflexion sur l’éthique de la recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique or ethic committee about science research and numeric technology) of Allistene. He is also a member of the synthetic biological committee. Since 2003, he is interested on ethical and social questions in correlation with new technologies. His recent work is about synthetic biology and especially the definition of life in an ethical and historical context.

Emmanuel HIRSCH as "the ethics expert"

Emmanuel Hirsch is a well-known person in the ethics sphere. Indeed, he is a medical ethics teacher in the medical university Paris-Sud 11 and director of the department of research ethics in that university. He received the Legion of Honor and the title of Knight of Arts and Letters.

Morgan MEYER as "the sociologist"

Morgan Meyer is a lecturer and researcher at Agro ParisTech and had been involved in the Science in Society (SenS), one unit of INRA (Institut national de la recherche agronomique). He holds a master in biology, a PhD in sociology and he has been a postdoc at the Department of Sociology at the University of Sheffield and at the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation at Mines ParisTech.

General questions about art and science

According to you, what is the link between art and science?

Can it be a real collaboration between the artist and the scientific?

What art and science can share to open up new horizons?

Audience/Purpose/technic

Bioart point of view

What is the main goal of Bioart?

What do you think about using living being in a artistic purpose?

Does a hierarchy of organism exist according to you? Is it the same to use a bacteria or a rabbit?

Living or non-living, natural or artificial, reel or fake?

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