This broadcast of "Access Utah" is an encore presentation. Our interview with Paul Vanouse originally aired in April, 2015 on Utah Public Radio.
Artist Paul Vanouse is visiting USU as a part of the ARTsySTEM project. Tuesday on Access Utah we’ll discuss Race and DNA, the CSI Effect, DNA Fingerprints, the Human Genome Project, and related topics.Vanouse is an artist working in Emerging Media forms. His artwork addresses complex issues raised by varied new techno-sciences using these very techno-sciences as a medium. His artworks have included data collection devices that examine the ramifications of polling and categorization, genetic experiments that undermine scientific constructions of race and identity, and temporary organizations that playfully critique institutionalization and corporatization.
These "Operational Fictions" are hybrid entities--simultaneously real things and fanciful representations--intended to resonate in the equally hyper-real context of the contemporary electronic landscape. Paul Vanouse is Professor of Art, Director of Graduate Studies, and Co-Director of Emerging Practices MFA, University at Buffalo.
