Avni Sethi

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I have been a student of art for as long as I remember- different mediums of self expression have engulfed me at different points in time, but largely I have been a performing artist presently studying the visual arts. The varying disciplines often create a conflict and often create solutions to the same self created conflicts as well. To inculcate science within the realms of ethics, aesthetics, philosophy and love, which are all integral to art seems like a direction towards a journey I want to explore. The symbiotic relationships as well as the independence of the elements in nature intrigue me. There is a need to be in sync with nature and using science as a tool to facilitate that process than curbing it's natural creativity is what I hope to achieve.


15th May 2009

I was a little apprehensive of where this project and interaction would go, but I am only glad to encounter its strong philosophical backbone integrated with biology. There were some readings that have caught my attention and I have drawn the following understandings from them: -

  • The artist is like a conduit between specialized knowledge fields and other members of a public sphere meaning to say that one is not taking away or challenging the role of a specialist but as an artist one is only enhancing the specialized knowledge with considerations that specialties might not accommodate.
  • Artists agree to engage/associate/learn from and in society and public places. IN such situations autonomy is always conditional, always negotiable.
  • Art more often than not occupies a place in metalanguage since it has a higher relationship with the symbolic therefore connecting us to realms such as ethics, aesthetics society, philosophy. This might be the purpose of even calling something art.

16th May 2009

These sketches are an totally fictional scientific logic of how I would want to create a bacterium called actinodopaine. This bacteria would detect the neuro-transmitter in humans called Dopamine that is secreted while feeling love. Once it detects this it would release the smell of rain.

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