Lotte Pet

wetenschap & techniek, schilderen, Lichaam, Figuratief, Educatie, Artistiek onderzoek

Lotte Pet (PhD) is a Rotterdam based painter and bioart researcher. Central to her practice is the question of what art can teach us that science cannot. In particular, she is concerned with the role of art in debates about the ethical and socio-cultural implications of biotechnological developments. She sets out to explore the meaning of (intra)relationality between technology and organs, tissues, and cells, and wonders how this impacts our understanding of the human. In her oil paintings, aesthetic elements such as brushstroke and image construction are related to innovative theories in new materialism, biopolitics, Science and Technology Studies, and posthumanism. For her recently completed PhD project "The Excess of Meaning", Lotte Pet investigated how bioart can provide a unique kind of knowledge about living matter alongside bioscientific and bioethical discourses.

**Oh God** - (2024), 160 x 100 cm, oil on canvas. Organs-on-chips (OOCs) are cell cultures in microfluidic devices that simulate one or more functions of adult organs. This biotechnology is a fruitful means for drug testing and replaces the lab animal as an instrument for experiment. In the series ‘Organoscape’, these semi-living organoids have outgrown their silicon wombs and are establishing new ecosystems in which the microscopic and macroscopic merge into one another. A soft-fleshy business has transformed into mountains for industrial mining. It suggests that the human search for economic uses of life is inspiring the prolific uses of economy, framing the commodification of bodily parts as a mechanism for metabolism.

**The neighbors are at it again** - (2024), 120 x 160 cm, oil on canvas. Organs-on-chips (OOCs) are cell cultures in microfluidic devices that simulate one or more functions of adult organs. This biotechnology is a fruitful means for drug testing and replaces the lab animal as an instrument for experiment. In the series ‘Organoscape’, these semi-living organoids have outgrown their silicon wombs and are establishing new ecosystems in which the microscopic and macroscopic merge into one another. A soft-fleshy business has transformed into mountains for industrial mining. It suggests that the human search for economic uses of life is inspiring the prolific uses of economy, framing the commodification of bodily parts as a mechanism for metabolism.

**They left them to their own devices** - (2024), 160 x 100 cm, oil on canvas. Organs-on-chips (OOCs) are cell cultures in microfluidic devices that simulate one or more functions of adult organs. This biotechnology is a fruitful means for drug testing and replaces the lab animal as an instrument for experiment. In the series ‘Organoscape’, these semi-living organoids have outgrown their silicon wombs and are establishing new ecosystems in which the microscopic and macroscopic merge into one another. A soft-fleshy business has transformed into mountains for industrial mining. It suggests that the human search for economic uses of life is inspiring the prolific uses of economy, framing the commodification of bodily parts as a mechanism for metabolism.

**Slide** - (2024), 40 x 40 cm, oil on canvas. Organs-on-chips (OOCs) are cell cultures in microfluidic devices that simulate one or more functions of adult organs. This biotechnology is a fruitful means for drug testing and replaces the lab animal as an instrument for experiment. In the series ‘Organoscape’, these semi-living organoids have outgrown their silicon wombs and are establishing new ecosystems in which the microscopic and macroscopic merge into one another. A soft-fleshy business has transformed into mountains for industrial mining. It suggests that the human search for economic uses of life is inspiring the prolific uses of economy, framing the commodification of bodily parts as a mechanism for metabolism.

**Impinge** - (2024), 40 x 40 cm, oil on canvas. Organs-on-chips (OOCs) are cell cultures in microfluidic devices that simulate one or more functions of adult organs. This biotechnology is a fruitful means for drug testing and replaces the lab animal as an instrument for experiment. In the series ‘Organoscape’, these semi-living organoids have outgrown their silicon wombs and are establishing new ecosystems in which the microscopic and macroscopic merge into one another. A soft-fleshy business has transformed into mountains for industrial mining. It suggests that the human search for economic uses of life is inspiring the prolific uses of economy, framing the commodification of bodily parts as a mechanism for metabolism.

**Spread** - (2024), 40 x 40 cm, oil on canvas. Organs-on-chips (OOCs) are cell cultures in microfluidic devices that simulate one or more functions of adult organs. This biotechnology is a fruitful means for drug testing and replaces the lab animal as an instrument for experiment. In the series ‘Organoscape’, these semi-living organoids have outgrown their silicon wombs and are establishing new ecosystems in which the microscopic and macroscopic merge into one another. A soft-fleshy business has transformed into mountains for industrial mining. It suggests that the human search for economic uses of life is inspiring the prolific uses of economy, framing the commodification of bodily parts as a mechanism for metabolism.

**Vem kan segla förutan vind?** - (2024), 85 x 120 cm, oil on canvas. How can we define our human essence if we outsource our biological intelligence? Organoid Intelligence (OI) is an emerging field of data processing. Human-derived brain organoids (i.e., cultured brain cells, or ‘intelligence-in-a-dish’) have been attributed great potential for being able to perform not only sequential processing as done by Artificial Intelligence, but also parallel processing. This could be used to solve complex and heterogeneous problems while using smaller datasets and less power. The oil paint series Therapy for Organoid Intelligence imagines a world in which these brain organoids are the latest laborers in human society. Picturing them as exhausted minds that are being forced to process more and more information, I wonder how we can care for these little brainiacs created for human desires. Should we emphasize with the needs of these novel, self-conscious (semi-)living entities—and can we even understand them at all?

**I'm craving a Pepsi cola** - (2023), 90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas. How can we define our human essence if we outsource our biological intelligence? Organoid Intelligence (OI) is an emerging field of data processing. Human-derived brain organoids (i.e., cultured brain cells, or ‘intelligence-in-a-dish’) have been attributed great potential for being able to perform not only sequential processing as done by Artificial Intelligence, but also parallel processing. This could be used to solve complex and heterogeneous problems while using smaller datasets and less power. The oil paint series Therapy for Organoid Intelligence imagines a world in which these brain organoids are the latest laborers in human society. Picturing them as exhausted minds that are being forced to process more and more information, I wonder how we can care for these little brainiacs created for human desires. Should we emphasize with the needs of these novel, self-conscious (semi-)living entities—and can we even understand them at all?

**The coddling of the organoid mind** - (2023), 90 x 60 cm, oil on canvas How can we define our human essence if we outsource our biological intelligence? Organoid Intelligence (OI) is an emerging field of data processing. Human-derived brain organoids (i.e., cultured brain cells, or ‘intelligence-in-a-dish’) have been attributed great potential for being able to perform not only sequential processing as done by Artificial Intelligence, but also parallel processing. This could be used to solve complex and heterogeneous problems while using smaller datasets and less power. The oil paint series Therapy for Organoid Intelligence imagines a world in which these brain organoids are the latest laborers in human society. Picturing them as exhausted minds that are being forced to process more and more information, I wonder how we can care for these little brainiacs created for human desires. Should we emphasize with the needs of these novel, self-conscious (semi-)living entities—and can we even understand them at all?

**The marriage of noosphere and biosphere** - (2023), 50 x 70 cm, oil on canvas. My medical history is a portrait series of the usually invisible inside of the body. The portraits capture intimate moments from Lotte Pet's own medical history in which organs, tissues, and bodily fluids have gained meaning through interaction with biomedical instruments, and in which these instruments have, vice versa, gained significance through convergence with her anatomy.

**Relief mediator** - (2023), 60 x 50 cm, oil on canvas. My medical history is a portrait series of the usually invisible inside of the body. The portraits capture intimate moments from Lotte Pet's own medical history in which organs, tissues, and bodily fluids have gained meaning through interaction with biomedical instruments, and in which these instruments have, vice versa, gained significance through convergence with her anatomy.

**Third molar emerged** - (2023), 40 x 50 cm, oil on canvas. My medical history is a portrait series of the usually invisible inside of the body. The portraits capture intimate moments from Lotte Pet's own medical history in which organs, tissues, and bodily fluids have gained meaning through interaction with biomedical instruments, and in which these instruments have, vice versa, gained significance through convergence with her anatomy.

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