Gene Genies Worldwide

Gene Genies Worldwide?? is a collaboration between Tran, T. Kim-Trang and Karl Mihail. We are artists posing as scientists who aspire to be artists. As Gene Genies Worldwide?? we create work that addresses the conjunction of genetic engineering and consumer culture to provide a critical evaluation of biotechnology while serving to raise consciousness, foster civic dialogue on accountability, and ownership concerns. The project is a catalyst for action by imagining a possible future and challenging viewers to question that future. (www.genegenies.com)

Tran’s video works have for the past ten years addressed various issues such as women and AIDS, racism and the beauty standard, surveillance mechanisms and public control, war survivors, and language. Her work in progress is a feature digital video titled Call Me Sugar. In 1999 she presented her video works in a solo screening at The Museum of Modern Art and was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, as well as being a featured artist at the 46th Flaherty Film Seminar. Tran was recently named a 2001 Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia Fellow.

Mihail’s sculptural work has addressed a number of socially relevant issues such as: the cycle of victims and perpetrators, history and heritage from the former Yugoslavia, and the consumption of culture. His current work, the Anti-war Memorial project, questions the role of sanctioned memorials and the culture of war.

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