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Epidermic Hyperplasia
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Epidermic Hyperplasia
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1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
We are all contained in our skin. We are contained in a
vessel that is generated by our bodies as a defense mechanism. Your
skin is a living mortal vessel. The point of departure comes from the
semi-living condition of the artificially produced epidermis. The epithelial
tissue is located in the middle of the hierarchy between the cell and the organ
tending to perform more like the one or the other along the different stages of
its growth. We understand the skin engineering culture as an attempt to create an
animate but not alive fraction of a body, coming from the body?s genetic
information but reversibly detached from it. Biologically, the process of the
skin engeneering: a synthetic polymer substratum [ PGA, P4HB] performs as the
host for the stem cells that will initiate the skin culture. This PGA scaffold
is responsible to provide cell support, cell attachment, supply growth
nutrients and drugs, provide structure and form. Cells can and do grow
3dimensionaly, so the geometry of the scaffolding has to create the anatomic
site for the cell lines to grow, attach to each other and finally produce a
continuous epidermic tissue. The growth of the skin is interwoven with the
degradation of the scaffolding material. The epithelial cells hook on the body
of the scaffolding absorbing the nutrients that are delivered through the
system concluding to its slow dematerialization. This parasitic relationship
between the growing tissue and its host, holds a direct analogy between the
proliferation of the skin cells and the disintegradation of the synthetic
matter. This dual system reaches its apex the exact same moment that it
destroys the viability of the scaffolding that provided the circumstances for
this dual system to exist in the first place. In a scale large enough to
include a human body we assign a trajectory, or most likely behavior to a 3D
printing device able to construct the PGA web and simultaneously seed the
primal cells in the synthetic host. The march of the printing machine
materializes the arrow of time, from the birth, to the growth, the adolescence,
and the necrosis. The balance of the system lays between the struggle of the
living matter to survive intrinsically resulting in the acceleration its death.
The live and death instincts, eros and thanatos create but simultaneously
disintegrate this spatial narrative. The printing device doesn?t really produce
a design, its performance appears more like a tick- Tourette syndrome repeating
the same action over and over. An unintended fidgety limp behavior retraces in
its inbuilt amplitude the sequence of a vertically arrayed field of points.
Similar devices, the punitive apparatus in Kafka?s Penal Colony and the
Bachelor Machine (later the Large Glass) by Marcel Duchamp perform in a dual
parallel manner. In our case this performative machine operates as an extension
of the body fluids of its occupant. To walk following the printing device is to
experience the biome of being in our selves. To experience an offset of the
skin that touches us but from the inside. The cellular matrix of the occupant.
Constant state of death. The residuum of the passage of the machine.
Dangerosity of a living organism. To create dying life. Injecting genetic
information into the scaffolding. We understand the constructed materiality of
our scenario the entropy between what is generated and what is dying. Extended
apparition of the body?s envelope. The human membrane, the membrane that
contains and protects us is being extended beyond the scope of the body.
vessel that is generated by our bodies as a defense mechanism. Your
skin is a living mortal vessel. The point of departure comes from the
semi-living condition of the artificially produced epidermis. The epithelial
tissue is located in the middle of the hierarchy between the cell and the organ
tending to perform more like the one or the other along the different stages of
its growth. We understand the skin engineering culture as an attempt to create an
animate but not alive fraction of a body, coming from the body?s genetic
information but reversibly detached from it. Biologically, the process of the
skin engeneering: a synthetic polymer substratum [ PGA, P4HB] performs as the
host for the stem cells that will initiate the skin culture. This PGA scaffold
is responsible to provide cell support, cell attachment, supply growth
nutrients and drugs, provide structure and form. Cells can and do grow
3dimensionaly, so the geometry of the scaffolding has to create the anatomic
site for the cell lines to grow, attach to each other and finally produce a
continuous epidermic tissue. The growth of the skin is interwoven with the
degradation of the scaffolding material. The epithelial cells hook on the body
of the scaffolding absorbing the nutrients that are delivered through the
system concluding to its slow dematerialization. This parasitic relationship
between the growing tissue and its host, holds a direct analogy between the
proliferation of the skin cells and the disintegradation of the synthetic
matter. This dual system reaches its apex the exact same moment that it
destroys the viability of the scaffolding that provided the circumstances for
this dual system to exist in the first place. In a scale large enough to
include a human body we assign a trajectory, or most likely behavior to a 3D
printing device able to construct the PGA web and simultaneously seed the
primal cells in the synthetic host. The march of the printing machine
materializes the arrow of time, from the birth, to the growth, the adolescence,
and the necrosis. The balance of the system lays between the struggle of the
living matter to survive intrinsically resulting in the acceleration its death.
The live and death instincts, eros and thanatos create but simultaneously
disintegrate this spatial narrative. The printing device doesn?t really produce
a design, its performance appears more like a tick- Tourette syndrome repeating
the same action over and over. An unintended fidgety limp behavior retraces in
its inbuilt amplitude the sequence of a vertically arrayed field of points.
Similar devices, the punitive apparatus in Kafka?s Penal Colony and the
Bachelor Machine (later the Large Glass) by Marcel Duchamp perform in a dual
parallel manner. In our case this performative machine operates as an extension
of the body fluids of its occupant. To walk following the printing device is to
experience the biome of being in our selves. To experience an offset of the
skin that touches us but from the inside. The cellular matrix of the occupant.
Constant state of death. The residuum of the passage of the machine.
Dangerosity of a living organism. To create dying life. Injecting genetic
information into the scaffolding. We understand the constructed materiality of
our scenario the entropy between what is generated and what is dying. Extended
apparition of the body?s envelope. The human membrane, the membrane that
contains and protects us is being extended beyond the scope of the body.
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