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Curator Forced to Kill Out-of-Control Bio-Art Exhibit

io9.com — The problem with bio-art is that it's often made of living tissue — and sometimes living tissue gets out of control. That's what happened late last week at a New York MoMA exhibit called "Design and the Elastic Mind," where a tiny living jacket made out of stem cells had to be put to death for growing too fast...

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  • dfltr, on 05/05/2008, -0/+12this is the single most badass thing the art world has ever accidentally produced.
  • lesbodojo, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Agreed. It's too bad they had to kill it.
  • Scopitone, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6It just wanted to be loved!
  • zer0hour, on 05/06/2008, -0/+4defiantly the weirdest thing i've read in a long time...
  • Rotzooi, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1This one's for Arthur C. Clarke.
  • SuperWinner, on 05/06/2008, -0/+4Victimless Leather? These people obviously live where its warm, try living in Canada for a while, you'll skin your own mother to get a warm coat when its -55c
  • br0wersauce, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Dugg for the Species reference. Come on, who could turn down weird alien sex?
    • GlassAgate, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Woohoo!!!
      Weird alien sex!!!
      Intergalactic porno!!!

  • rjc5056, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3I wish they had pics of what it looked like at the end. But, the lack thereof grants me the freedom to imagine a 2 story skin jacket flailing around and rearing back in anger as the SWAT team trys to put it down with round after round of buckshot! Yea. That's how it all went down.
  • spaceman84, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Akira?
  • Godlesswanderer, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2I almost wish they'd let it keep growing, the world is overdue for an out of control blob roaming the streets.
    • GlassAgate, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1I, for one, would have welcomed our out of control blob.
      It would have made a wonderful overlord.
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