Volume 16, Issue 2

The cover image is taken from the exhibition "Gaia.: Gene, algorithm, intelligent design, automata A mirage self, The Other Realm”, at MoCA Taipei. This exhibition explores how modern science and technology, being the new canon of Myth in our time, have gradually replaced the interpretation of classic Myth in the field of life and nature. Artists illustrate various ways in which science and technology have transformed our understanding and imagination of life, constructing “the other realm.” This artwork, “Transplant,” created by artist Juan Zamora, shows a plant that has been transformed (a trans-plant). It re-presents a real-world, novel cardiovascular medical technology by which scientists cultured beating human heart cells on spinach leaves that were stripped of plant cells. As stated in the introduction, this work "offers an imaginative space for the highly agriculturalized model of producing tissues or planting ‘organs.’”