George Gessert is an artist whose work focuses on the overlap between art and genetics. His exhibits often involve plants he has hybridized or documentation of . George Gessert has a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in fine art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. From to the present. George Gessert THEIR SILENCE IS A GIFT Interview by Arjen Mulder The question of beauty is a natural one for breeders of ornamental plants and flowers for.
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George Gessert is a bioart pioneer. From to the present, his work has focused on the overlap between art and genetics, with a particular interest in plant aesthetics and the ways that human aesthetic preferences affect evolution.
Towards an art of Evolution. You have combined your fascination with plants and your work as an artist in intricate ways.
Tell us about your garden. The only dedicated areas are for plant breeding — irises mostly. The garden is home to lots of birds and animals. This Christmas our present to one another was a wildlife camera, which we set up on our compost heap. The very first night we got good pictures of two foxes sorting through the kitchen scraps.
My job is to facilitate. The job of the artist is not so much to create, as to help what is latent in things manifest itself.
In a way the job of the artist is to leave himself out. In the light of art, the challenge for the plant breeder is to recognize aesthetic value in new life forms.
Bioart through evolution: George Gessert
This is easier said than done. In any breeding project there are always far more new plants than space to grow them out for more than a little while, so most have to be composted. What obstructed me from recognizing it was usually my original vision. Having a vision is necessary for any breeding project, but can becomes a hindrance when it is too rigidly adhered to.
One must always be ready for the unexpected, for new life that is just as good or better than what one sought. The aesthetics of evolution, documented by George Gessert through iris breeding.
George Gessert: Genetics and Culture
When I first began exhibiting live plants some thirty years my work got the attention of curators in part because of its novelty value. That no longer happens. In the context of art, plants have become one more accepted medium that can convey different, even contradictory values. Today bio art is still widely considered somewhat adventurous, yet Jeff Koons, whose work encapsulates dominant values of consumer culture, uses live plants in installations.
The bio art that interests me explores the question: Can we interact with them, including on gessret genetic level, in ways that are not merely exploitative? Can our interactions bring joy into the world? Ggessert you for speaking with us George!
George Gessert – Wikipedia
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