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bioart

About Me


Deconstructing the boundaries between art and science, I create conceptual installations out of information generated from ecological field trips and laboratory research. My actions as an artist conducting primary scientific research are both performative and an extension of the notion of artistic investigation. From my own obsessive curiosity and a profound desire to make art, I create works that are physically involved and saturated with data. By employing complex visual strategies with unearthed content, I attempt to challenge viewers intellectually and aesthetically. Diverse mediums such as drawings, preserved specimens, projected digital animation and interactive web sites are utilized to express the genetic complexity and variance of the life-forms found within nature, as well as those engineered via new technologies. By exhibiting unusual materials such as collected living plants and animals in installations, I strive to re-examine the context of the museum/exhibition space from a static sterile environment into a more organic system reflecting the inherent chaos found within evolutionary processes. Exploring the organic processes of life, I have bred multiple generations of a species to induce aesthetic variation in offspring- creating living “artworks” which expand the use of artistic materials to include actual genes.if you have a chance check out www.greenmuseum.org/ballengee

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Other environmentalists, activists, anyone with an interest in nature, science and art.

My Blog

1% Water, Arts Centre Z33, Hasselt, Belgium

Z331% WATERAND OUR FUTURE29th of June - 28th of September 2008curators: Ilse Crawford and Jane WithersArts Centre Z33vleugel '58Zuivelmarkt 33B-3500 HASSELThttp://www.z33.beWith 1% WATER arts centre Z...
Posted by bioart on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:16:00 PST

An Itinerant, a Messenger and an Explorer:

First published in engage 21: Art and Climate Change, March 2008An Itinerant, a Messenger and an Explorer:The work of Brandon BallengéeNicola TriscottDirector, The Arts CatalystThere has been an enorm...
Posted by bioart on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:33:00 PST

Biological Imperative

June 14-July 26, 2008Curated by Emma WilcoxGallery Aferro73 Market StreetNewark, N.J. 07102 "®arding a near future when objects that are partly alive and partly constructed exist, and when animal o...
Posted by bioart on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:52:00 PST

Yorshire Sculpture Park Eco-Actions

Brandon Ballengée explores the boundaries between art, science and technology by creating artworks from information generated by ecological field trips. Brandon's work includes environmental art and s...
Posted by bioart on Sat, 31 May 2008 06:43:00 PST

Places at Jim Kempner Fine Art, NYC

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Posted by bioart on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:23:00 PST

Creative Minds Go Green- Studio 360

http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2008/04/18...
Posted by bioart on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:36:00 PST

MALAMP UK Documentary

Malamp UK - Brandon BallengeeProduced by Arts Catalyst, London...
Posted by bioart on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:50:00 PST

March 2008 Events

Monday 10 March, 5pm to 7pm"Monstres Sacrés" presentation at the Société des arts technologiques [SAT] Society for Arts and TechnologySAT1195 boulevard Saint-Laurent Montreal514 844-2033Free Entranceh...
Posted by bioart on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:15:00 PST

’Frog from hell’ fossil unearthed

A 70-million-year-old fossil of a giant frog has been unearthed inMadagascar by a team of UK and US scientists.The creature would have been the size of a "squashed beach ball" andweighed about 4kg (9l...
Posted by bioart on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:20:00 PST

17_20.01.2008 projecció de vídeo conferència

COMAFOSCA, node d'art i pensament a AlellaRiera Coma Fosca, 42 08328 Alella Barcelonaprojecte "taxonomies" [mostra expositiva en curs_últims dies] 17_20.01.2008> enraonament 3 / Malamp: Visualis...
Posted by bioart on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:15:00 PST