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Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Exhibition
Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Exhibition
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TY - ADVS
T1 - Para-Site-Seeing
A2 - Southern, Jen
A2 - Dillon, Roderick James
PY - 2018/11/6
Y1 - 2018/11/6
N2 - What does lifespan mean for a parasite that reproduces as asexual clones and is revived after 30 years suspended in a deep frozen state? How far does the digital footprint of a parasite stretch online? This work centers on the deadly Leishmania parasite that exploits human conflict and poverty to inhabit humans and cause the disease known as Leishmaniasis. Para-site-seeing.org is a travel blogging portal for the Leishmania parasite, created by Jen Southern and Rod Dillon and co-commissioned with the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research. Through the portal multiple narratives unfold, as parasites blog, tweet, insta and vlog their way around the world, tracing their lives in the wild, as experimental subjects in labs, transforming themselves on board sandflies as vehicles for multi-species encounters. Follow para-site-seeing from the parasites first out-of-body experience in the 1960’s and witness its first moments emerging from cryopreservation.
AB - What does lifespan mean for a parasite that reproduces as asexual clones and is revived after 30 years suspended in a deep frozen state? How far does the digital footprint of a parasite stretch online? This work centers on the deadly Leishmania parasite that exploits human conflict and poverty to inhabit humans and cause the disease known as Leishmaniasis. Para-site-seeing.org is a travel blogging portal for the Leishmania parasite, created by Jen Southern and Rod Dillon and co-commissioned with the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research. Through the portal multiple narratives unfold, as parasites blog, tweet, insta and vlog their way around the world, tracing their lives in the wild, as experimental subjects in labs, transforming themselves on board sandflies as vehicles for multi-species encounters. Follow para-site-seeing from the parasites first out-of-body experience in the 1960’s and witness its first moments emerging from cryopreservation.
KW - Art-science, sciart, parasite, more-than-human, multispecies
M3 - Exhibition
PB - Neon Digital Arts Festival
CY - Dundee
T2 - Neon Digital Arts Festival
Y2 - 6 November 2018 through 11 November 2018
ER -