1. Surrogate Second Skin : Eternal Craving VerfremdungProject Hybrid Worlds: Nano-biotech + Art /Spring / 2010 Instructors : Victoria Vesna SiddharthRamakrishnan Name : Ginny, Chin-hui Hwang Major : Design & Technology

2. Abstract The Surrogate Second Skin is wearablethat will bring to aesthetic, ethical issues of society especially in terms of the usage of genetic engineering in the nano_biotechnology This wearable will generate a new layer on the wearer’s skin, like a Second Skin. This act aims to provoke the wearer into differentiating consciousness from preconscious by watching ‘growing’ body parts of oneself in the everyday life The frame of Mind; Eternal Craving Verfremdungis about bringing questions like what is life, how we live from one’s existence Verfremdung;German playwright Bertolt Brecht built his dramatic theory as the alienation effect to accomplish aesthetic distance

3. Concept I am in a state of perpetual war with myself and my mind, crossing the ins and outs of a life without a perimeter, a state that breeds perpetual fear This fear stems from my extreme desire to create alternative representations of myself, to create a safe space, to multiply myself, so that my current identity can disappear. Concept of this Project is tenacity of mine to the personal space as the passage of 'deviation', 'escape' and ‘self deception’

5. Instead of using Transgenic Animals, use yoursthrough the process of this wearable DIY(do-it-yourself)-Manufacturing Surrogate Second Skin; a substance made from a mix of protein and connective tissue

6. Replacement of ear, heart, bladder even a human embryo

7. Wearable awareness; personal observation on one’s own temptationTemptation : Essence of consciousness-being awareness of choice

8. Social Context Peddy Hartley “Short Cuts To Beauty: Face Corset 16.”2004 Jeremy scoot. "Body modification“ 1996 Extreme beauty : Social context, or subdued desire

9. Social Context Oncomouse: Engineered to be susceptible to cancer. (1988) Artist Stelios Arcadiou : The ear created in a lab from cells and implanted into his skin

10. Social Context University of Minnesota Laboratory Use of Mouse & Pig Heart cells to make a Human Heart

11. Precedents FDA . “Synthetic Skin.” (1998) sensory experience ; involving sight, smell, touch London College of Fashion “Skin Architecture” (2004) Tissue + Culture “Semi-Living Seamless Jacket”

12. Precedents Donna Franklin. (Australia) “Micro’be’Fermented Fashion”(2006 - ) Peter Allen & Carla Murray(NY) “Skinthetic” (2002) , “BrandX” (2007)

13. Literature review “Since the central feature of human existence is the capacity to choose in full awareness of one's own non-being, it follows that the basic question is always whether or not I will be true to myself. Self-deception invariably involves an attempt to evade responsibility for myself. If, for example, I attribute undesirable thoughts and actions to the influence upon me of the subconscious orunconscious, I have made part of myself into an "other" that I then suppose to control the real me. Thus, using psychological theory to distinguish between a "good I" and a "bad me" only serves to perpetuate my evasion of responsibility and its concomitants”. (J.P.Sartre)

14. ProjectProposal Idea sketches

16. Pluripotent Stem Cells : The wearer's stem cell is growing in a lab, and then seeded on a biodegradable specific body-part-shaped cage on the second skin

18. The organs for transplantation

19. Cover the injury : serious skin damages caused by cancers, accidents, etc., and skin disorder diseases

20. Purpose of plastic surgeries

23. Prototype

24. Prototype

26. What is the key point that makes thisproject be the “Tipping Point”?

27. How far can this Surrogate Second Skin be adapted, or approached to practical world?

29. References Stephen, Wilson. Art + Science Now. Thames & Hudson Inc., 2010. Sabine, Seymour. Fashionable Technology. Springer Wien New York, 2008. Sarah E. Braddock Clarke., and Marie O’ Mahony. Techno Textiles. Thames & Hudson Inc., 2007. FRAME : The Great Indoors : Issue 72 : The Sensual World. Jan/Feb 2010. Harold Koda. Extreme Beauty : The Body Transformed. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. Malcolm Gladwell. The Tipping Point. Janklow & Nesbit Associates. 2000. My Sister's Keeper (film). New Line Cinema. 26 June 2009. (USA) STEVEN, PINKER. “My Genome, My Self.” NYTimes.com. Published, 7 Jan. 2009. Web. 11 Jan. 2009.

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