About BEAK
BEAK is bioethics oversight for bioartists by bioartists
Priming the Cultural Aesthetics of Bioethics
Bioarts Ethical Advisory Komission (BEAK) was established to provide artistic oversight and ethical assessment for bioart applications. We provide professional bioartist aesthetics consulting, bioart historian expert opinions, and science technology studies styled critical bioethics analysis that reviews the Legal, Ethical, Societal and Libidinal implications (LESLi) of novel Life Science applications as bioart. This includes research and development as well as issues in installation, exhibition and humane sacrifice. Assessments are made on a product, process and project basis through artistic risk versus artistic benefit analysis.
BEAK is exploring the role of aesthetic breadth through Bioart, bioart history, and science technology wet life science creative cultural criticism. Covering biosafety, recombinant safety, animal and other non-human or semi-human care and use as well as housing and enrichment for bioart projects.
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