{"id":5940,"date":"2017-10-27T15:41:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T19:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artthescience.com\/magazine\/?p=5940"},"modified":"2018-01-24T20:05:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T01:05:19","slug":"creators-bojana-ginn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artthescience.com\/magazine\/2017\/10\/27\/creators-bojana-ginn\/","title":{"rendered":"CREATORS – Bojana Ginn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Name:<\/strong> Bojana Ginn<\/a><\/p>\n

Which came first in your life, the science or the art?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As children, most of us play with crayons. We are introduced to art before we are introduced to science. However, if I can define the initial interest in science as a general curiosity in how life works, as an interest in wild life, plants and animals, even in numbers and mathematics, then I think that my interest in art and science was simultaneous for a very long time, until my thirties when art became my profession.<\/p>\n

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Can Art Stress? Interactive Acoustic Sculpture, 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

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Liquid Lines, Three Channel Video Installation, 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

Which sciences relate to your art practice?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My high school years were focused on natural sciences. After high school, I finished medical school in Serbia, followed by working in a biology lab in the United States. During this long involvement in various scientific disciplines, I learned to think as a scientist. Because of this, general scientific methodology plays a big role in my work: zooming in, exposing the mechanism, figuring out how things work, testing, and experimenting. However, if I should choose one scientific discipline, then I would say that genetics definitely has the most significant impact on my philosophy. Transcribing and translating a line from one medium into another, is similar to how genetic code is transcribed and translated into protein. Video editing reminds me a lot of genetic engineering; precisely cutting and rearranging sequences, combining previous works into, so to speak, new species. I also work with sheep\u2019s wool, and sheep were the first mammals to be cloned. I think about this fact a lot. Literally, wool is a protein with traces of DNA, so, I daily shape and mold this material into various forms. Furthermore, combining the organic fibre with contemporary video and light technology is an important statement in my work, shining a light on issues of genetic engineering and transhumanism, and suggesting new utopias.<\/p>\n

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Supermassive Superstrings Melt on Tongue, Four Channel Video Installation, 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

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Plastic Gene, LED, Glue and Sheep\u2019s Wool, 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

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Synaptic Touch, LED and Sheep\u2019s Wool, 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

What materials do you use to create your artworks?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bio-fiber and light. Protein and DNA on one hand, and pixels and photons on the other. My materials are ephemeral, gentle, expandable, and re-usable.<\/p>\n

Artwork\/Exhibition you are most proud of:<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are two: Infinite Body<\/em> at Whitespace gallery in Atlanta, and Presence<\/em> at the 2016 Venice Architectural Biennale.<\/p>\n

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Praising Softness \/ Pink Gluons on the Small of the Back, LED and Sheep\u2019s Wool, 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

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Presence, Video Still, Video exhibited at 2016 Venice Architectural Biennale<\/p><\/div>\n