Jennifer Willet & Jason Knight - Bioteknica - Documentary

Jason Knight and Jennifer Willet have dedicated themselves to mastering the techniques of tissue engineering. But they are not scientists. They are artists - and their art is raising profound and controversial questions.

Knight and Willet are Canada's leading practitioners of "Bio Art," an emerging form that uses the tools of biology to create works of art. The goal is to draw attention to the field of biotechnology and its impact on society.

On its next edition, VisionTV's Gemini Award-nominated current affairs series 360 Vision takes a close look at the meaning and purpose of Bio Art, and the powerful reactions that it evokes.

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Science & Technology

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• Bioteknica
• Jason
• Knight
• Jennifer
• Willet
• Teratoma
• Tissue
• Culture
• and
• Art
• Oron
• Catts
• Symbiotica

[jamiebookofshadows]

fools.

they should be ashamed of themselves.

[stevensartifacts]

if science slows down because people are disgusted by tissue engineering and these two are exposing it, then so be it-- it's bringing essentially what scientists do into the limelight-- they aren't the ones causing science to slow down- it would be tissue engineering itself. it's obvious you haven't stopped to consider even for a moment why this work is important. it causes alarmist reactions because they're raising serious questions about where we should draw the line.

[drsandersl]

Raw beauty, friends.

[marianstefan1]

Biotechnika

[richardpinder]

I am completely disgusted with what these so called artists are doing. Tissue engineering as a science has the potential to save millions of lives. What these artists are doing is merely to cause alarmist reactions. These reactions may cause this science to slow down. This in turn may cause countless lives to be lost. In a age where countless people are dying because of a lack of organs. I think these people with their obvious hidden agenda should live in the dark age where they belong.

[FatherChrismas]

Lab Worker:

"I don't know answers,

I just do eyes.

You Nexus 6,

I designed your eyes."

Roy Batty:

"If only you could see

what I have seen

with your eyes!"

~Blade Runner~

[pgwmw]

thanks alot for uploading

[quadrantcross]

Congrats Bioteknica -- nice piece, you've managed to explain yourself well.