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"Proteios",
project initiated at
CEMA Center for Experimental Media Art / Srishti College of Art,
Design and Technology in cooperation with National Center for Biological Sciences
in Bangalore, India, in summer 2009. The project “Proteois” is a continuation of my earlier work “Life Matters”
realized with the support of
the Centre
for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in
New Delhi
,
India
.
“Space
is
the way of existence of life, and life is the way of existence of space".
- these words by Prof. Stefan Semotiuk became a motto of the
project. (Stefan Semotiuk „Filozoficzne Aspekty Przestrzeni” w „Przestrzeń w nauce
współczesnej, UMCS,
Lublin
, 1998)
There
are many definitions of life and their content depends on a scientific
specialization, the world-view or context of reflection. I choose this one
because, in a sense, it summarizes the scope of my artistic research.
The
title of the project recalls the
tradition of the early Greek philosophy that initiated the search for arche
- primary cause and fundamental principle of the nature, physis, the world in Western culture. (Similarly, Far Eastern
philosophy introduced notions of karma
and sjunjata)
The
Greek word πρωτεῖος
(proteios), means "primary", "in the lead". It is nothing
strange then, that the core of this word can be found in the name of a proton
– elementary particle and the base of atomic nucleus, as well as in the name
of a protein, the “basic brick of life” responsible for all cellular (life)
processes.
