The document discusses a proposed wearable called the Surrogate Second Skin that would generate a new layer of skin using genetic engineering and nano-biotechnology. This second skin aims to provoke self-reflection in the wearer by allowing them to observe growing body parts. It could potentially be used for organ transplantation and covering injuries. The project aims to address issues of identity, temptation, and responsibility through aesthetic means. It references precedents in tissue engineering and proposes using stem cells and a power source to stimulate cell growth on the second skin.
2. Abstract The Surrogate Second Skin is wearable that will bring to aesthetic, ethical issues of society especially in terms of the usage of genetic engineering in the nano_biotechnology This wearable will generate a new layer on the wearer’s skin, like a Second Skin. This act aims to provoke the wearer into differentiating consciousness from preconscious by watching ‘growing’ body parts of oneself in the everyday life The frame of Mind; Eternal Craving Verfremdung is about bringing questions like what is life, how we live from one’s existence Verfremdung;German playwright Bertolt Brecht built his dramatic theory as the alienation effect to accomplish aesthetic distance
3. Concept I am in a state of perpetual war with myself and my mind, crossing the ins and outs of a life without a perimeter, a state that breeds perpetual fear This fear stems from my extreme desire to create alternative representations of myself, to create a safe space, to multiply myself, so that my current identity can disappear. Concept of this Project is tenacity of mine to the personal space as the passage of 'deviation', 'escape' and ‘self deception’
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5. Instead of using Transgenic Animals, use yoursthrough the process of this wearable DIY(do-it-yourself)-Manufacturing Surrogate Second Skin; a substance made from a mix of protein and connective tissue
6. Replacement of ear, heart, bladder even a human embryo
7. Wearable awareness; personal observation on one’s own temptationTemptation : Essence of consciousness-being awareness of choice
8. Social Context Peddy Hartley “Short Cuts To Beauty: Face Corset 16.”2004 Jeremy scoot. "Body modification“ 1996 Extreme beauty : Social context, or subdued desire
9. Social Context Oncomouse : Engineered to be susceptible to cancer. (1988) Artist Stelios Arcadiou : The ear created in a lab from cells and implanted into his skin
10. Social Context University of Minnesota Laboratory Use of Mouse & Pig Heart cells to make a Human Heart
11. Precedents FDA . “Synthetic Skin.” (1998) sensory experience ; involving sight, smell, touch London College of Fashion “Skin Architecture” (2004) Tissue + Culture “Semi-Living Seamless Jacket”
12. Precedents Donna Franklin. (Australia) “Micro’be’Fermented Fashion”(2006 - ) Peter Allen & Carla Murray(NY) “Skinthetic” (2002) , “BrandX” (2007)
15. Pluripotent Stem Cells : The wearer's stem cell is growing in a lab, and then seeded on a biodegradable specific body-part-shaped cage on the second skin
25. What is the key point that makes this project be the “Tipping Point”?
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27. “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man” - Samuel Johnson “And Fear Came Upon Every Soul” - ACTS 2:43
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