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Nam June Paik

Journal Questions for Grade 11/12 Media Arts and Comm Tech.

You may answer one or both questions. Entries must be around 300 words each. Please review guidelines.

1. In the introductory seminar, we looked at Catts and Zurr's BioArt, like their "Victimless Meat". What are some ethical and moral concerns of this work that you can think of? What do you think about biotechnology as art?

2. "Contemporary artists use the technology of their time to communicate and express their ideas". Use an example of a media artist that we talked about in the introductory seminar to explain this quote.