The (Re)Act project is about rethinking actions and reactions during global changes. As an analogy to the changes in a society's behavior as a result of the pandemic, we would like to observe the living particles' behavior and transformation during the physical manipulations with them. As a material for research, we are going to share our own biomaterial. Since the beginning of the pandemic, millions of people have continuously hand over their biomaterials to study and detect the virus.

This project is a series of researches on the influence of various physical processes on living cells. The subject of research will be the biomaterial of the artists themselves. In the process of research, we want to delve into the section of biophysics and study how various physical interventions and manipulations affect the behavior and structure of living cells. In an era of irreversible changes associated with global warming and pandemic in particular, along with climatic temperature fluctuations, we also encountered temperature changes of a biological nature. The pandemic forced the whole world to reconsider social and political views, as well as interpersonal behavioral patterns. Approaching the research from a scientific-philosophical point of view, drawing an analogy between social behavior and the behavior of cells, we face the question - is it possible for the further rational existence of humanity without self-consciousness and scientific awareness? At the end of the research, we would like to develop a publicly available application for smart gadgets, using artificial intelligence, which will display the analogies of our experiments, with the option provided to perform similar manipulations on particles and to discover a scientific experiment experience.

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Project Description

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Along with technological progress, humanity has faced biological vulnerability, experienced isolation, and tried to rethink the meaning of freedom. The maximum digitalization of the elements of life gave us the opportunity to exist in a post-tactile world and brought us closer to the idea of a possible future, in which the human essence is separated from the physical body and represented as digital information. The transformation of flesh into data makes it possible for an endless existence and excludes any physical and biological cataclysms that may occur to a human.

The subject of research is the biomaterial of artists. In the course of this experiment, which will be supervised by scientists, we want to fix and structure the transformations of particles subjected to various physical influences. During the laboratory research process, we assume cooperation with physicists from various fields, in particular from the fields of thermodynamics and biophysics, in order to study how strong are the influences of external factors on the behavior and structure of particles. We are interested in how temperature fluctuations, light changes, resonant and dissonant sound, and other physical manipulations affect living cells. It is also extremely important for us to understand how these changes can be recorded and transformed into digital information.

The purpose of our research is to gain scientific experience that will expand intellectual horizons and provide an opportunity to understand, comprehend and rethink the relationship between science and human nature. We, as artists, understand the unshakable connection between science and art, we understand the importance of cooperation and interdisciplinary experiences in order to obtain more productive results in the development and awareness of society. At the end of the research, we would like to develop a publicly available application for smart gadgets, using artificial intelligence, which will display the analogies of our experiments, with the option provided to perform similar manipulations on particles and to discover a scientific experiment experience. This act will allow many people to realize the influence of certain physical manipulations on the particles of a living organism in the form of visual material and get closer to science.

Our project is a post-humanism experience that researches a philosophical view of how the world is changing. In our opinion, science and technology are an evolutionary bridge between humans, as a vulnerable biological type with a physical presence, and humans as the bearer of thought and data. With the help of the acquired experience in the scientific field, we will be able to understand the idea of post-humanism by manipulating our own biomaterial and fixing the changes, and then turning them into data, in analogy with the teleportation of material into the material and the transformation of the biological into digital. In this project, the art object is our biomaterials, which will become publicly available at the end of the research.

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• We believe in the limitless possibilities of healing through art and art therapy.

• We believe in the limitless possibilities and transcendent power of science.

• We believe in the polyphony of art and science.

• We believe in the interconnectedness between science and art.

• We believe in compromise and collaboration between humanitarians and exact sciences