WE ARE JUNKIES IN TRASHUMAN ERA

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MARK DION

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A Spectacular Deep Ocean Sea Cucumber

photo: INDEX-SATAL/NOAA

A free-swimming sea cucumber moves through the freezing waters of a 10,515-ft (3,205-m) abyss in a “spectacular” image taken July 27, 2010,  according to NOAA. The 1,250 known species of sea cucumbers—named for their distinctive shapes—live on or near deep ocean floors or dwell in the shallows.

(Watch a video of a “hairy” sea cucumber.)

When threatened, some sea cucumbers discharge sticky threads to ensnare their enemies. Others can mutilate their own bodies as a defense mechanism: The animals violently contract their muscles and jettison some of their internal organs out of their anuses. The missing body parts are quickly regenerated.

(via: National Geo)

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This very rare bi-colored lobster is a gynandromorph, meaning it’s both female and male. The chances of finding a lobster like this are about 1-in-50 million. 

Peter Marche of Felix Cove made an unusual discovery: He caught a two-tone lobster while hauling his traps in St. George’s Bay waters. The strange-looking animal has two genders – female organs on the blue side and male on the traditional-coloured side. Another identifying characteristic of the dual gender include a smaller claw on the blue female side and a larger male claw on the other side. Mr. Marche has caught other unusual lobsters during his five decades on the water – including all-blue, all-yellow and all-orange specimens – but this is the first time he knows of a two-tone lobster being caught in this province. “But this is the rarest of them all and what makes it so unique is that it has the two different genders,” said Mr. Marche. His family learned from doing a little research online that a two-coloured lobster was caught off the coast of Massachusetts in late October of 2012, but that one was half black and half orange. They also learned that blue two-tone lobsters are quite rare, happening once in every 50 to 100 million lobsters due to a genetic mutation. © Peter Marche Via our friends at I fucking love biodiversity

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to top it off, we are becoming erotically Posthuman and slowly dealing with the loss of human identity as we had thought we were. It is for this reason that my hopes and fears coagulate around the central question of 'What Is Bad Taste?' as it becomes imbedded in life's cascade.

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This lengthy post is part of a Critical Media Art Course. The theme of the week was "Life", and the readings provided focused on Bioart, and the concerns around it. Following an introduction to the term of Bioart, concerns and ethics are introduced, followed by a selection of artworks which, we believe, are important to the theme despite the significant differences between artworks.

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An Ecosystem of Excess -- Presentation by Pinar Yoldas at Aksioma | Project Space Ljubljana, Slovenia WED 12 February 2014 aksioma.org/ecosystem.of.excess

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