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by | Mar 10, 2021
Amy Karle (born 1980) is an American artist, bioartist and futurist. She creates work that looks forward to a future where technology can support and enhance the human condition. She was named…
BBC 100 Women
Each year, BBC selects the 100 most inspirational and influential women from around the world. This year, they selected Artist Amy Karle amongst their ranks.
Metal Magazine | Amy Karle: It’s Beautiful and It’s Scary
Karle is dedicated to creating works that challenge the human condition and questions what exactly it means to be human in the first place… Karle creates enticing works that go beyond its futuristic…
Atlas of Data Bodies 1: Body images in art, design and science in the age of digital media
“What fascinates Karle, especially with regards to the human body, is the contradictory potential of…
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3D Printed Scaffold for Artistic Cell Culture
“At the juncture between creative exploration and scientific technology lies the work of Amy Karle. The idea behind her work was to use live cells as the components of a sculptural form. By harnessing the natural functions of the cells, replication and growth, she uses them to build her sculpture around a scaffold that she has created…”
Science, Art, Economics & Assemblages of Care
Engaged in speculative work that expand on the potential of 3D printing , pushing the boundaries for the future direction of the tech… Earlier this year Amy Karle grew a hand design in live bone from human steam cells on the surface of a biofriendly, biodegradable 3D printed lattice. The artwork explores potentialities for enhancing our human body, and simultaneously is redefining the potential of 3D printing for biomedical applications. The outcomes of this residency varies from biotechnology, to innovation in materials, to new production techniques for fashion garments. Furthermore, it highlights how artists working with specific skill sets in industry contexts can lead innovation for multiple domains.
Regenerative Reliquary: Bringing Bones To Life
“Karle’s work establishes a new discipline in the art world called Bioart, an art form whereby sculptures are grown from living materials. This also has vast potential for healthcare, beauty, fitness and a new way of thinking and making. Karle explains that in the future, not only could we fabricate additions to our bodies and…”
REGENERATIVE RELIEF
‘Artist Amy Karle has been dedicated to exploring the relationship between the human body and technology for years. She has taken her work to the field of “BioArt”, one of the most recent currents of contemporary art… interesting work that allows finding new ways of conceiving art, as well as contributing in the medical field’ (translated)
Bringing bones to life: Artist prototypes a hand grown out of stem cells
“…there is no doubt that this project transcends science and technology”
This artist has a bone to pick, and it’s not what you’d expect
“Equal parts art and science, and a fusion of what Karle calls “generative art and regenerative medicine”, the work is just as groundbreaking as it is beautiful.”
“The Best and Most Unique 3D Printer Materials: Photopolymer Edition” and “DIY 3D Printing Resins and the Future of Photopolymers”
“This article in particular will take a look at that most intriguing class of materials known as photopolymers, essential to vat photopolymerization 3D printing processes—such as stereolithography (SLA), digital light processing (DLP)…”
Regenerative Reliquary by Amy Karle
“Amy Karle expanded her bioart into creating artwork out of living cells… she embarked on groundbreaking work growing a hand design in live bone from human stem cells along a biofriendly, biodegradable 3D printed lattice; opening a new form of artwork, as well as expanding opportunities for enhancing our bodies, biomedical applications, and making things that were never possible to make before.”
This Artist is Biohacking the Body To 3D Print Fantastical Human Bones
“Working at the intersection of art, technology, and design, Artist Amy Karle is in the midst of her own boundary-pushing bone grafting project. For Regenerative Reliquary, she is hacking bone cells… Karle calls her project a fusion of generative art and regenerative medicine, the idea being that the two disciplines…”
Artist grows real human hand; inspired by work in open source
“Karle explores human biology through technology and art through… She hopes her work can contribute to answers to important questions about human biology. Karle has already released open source instructions for creating 3D-printed lattices for cell culture. She says she’s inspired by A neural algorithm for artistic style, and Deep Dream. She’s working on related projects that may eventually be used to create…”
An Artist is Growing a Real Human Hand
“The most significant impact on my life from studying and making work with the body and mind is the understanding that things that we think are fixed or concrete are not. My work has shown me that there are always other options, which led to an intrinsic understanding that we can remake ourselves into who we want to become.” – Amy Karle
BioArtist Grows a Sculpture out of Bone
“As artists and designers we are no longer tied to working with inanimate objects like clay, metal or fiber. It is really exciting when I think of how we can grow our own sculptures. I hope to inspire other artists and designers to think about possibilities of what they could make beyond what we are traditionally trained to use”. – Amy Karle
Bringing Bones To Life
“I turned to synthetic biology and regenerative medicine and set out on a journey of creating artwork that could grow into form. Using CAD design and 3D printing, I created scaffolds to encourage cell growth into a certain form, a 3D printed framework that tissue can regenerate on.” – Amy Karle
Bio-artist who brings up “your hand” with 3D printer and stem cells
In order to be able to regenerate the body, it is first necessary to break them apart. In Karle’s work, these basic facts are expressed with terrifying beauty.(translated)
21st Century Digital Art: A Collaborative Survey of Digital Art Made Since 2000
Amy Karle’s Biofeedback Artwork is another experiment in creating art through technology, and using the human body as part of the medium… In this piece, she uses existence and the movement within the human body to create visuals of that which cannot be seen… She brings into question our understanding and visualization of consciousness, and attempts to create something that can be seen and understood from something that cannot.
Artist Amy Karle Makes Instructable Manual For A Hand 3D Printed With Stem Cells
“I was creating artwork with parametric and generative digital design to create forms, but it felt like there was something I could tap inherent with more mystery and surprises in the real world. So I looked within the body, at how cells articulate into different forms – what makes a cell become a beating heart, skin, or bone.” – Amy Karle
Tissue Tussle, Printed Hand
An artist aims to grow a human hand design from stem cells. She worked with scientists to design a trellis made of a hydrogel that will form an armature for the cells. Karle and her team is now culturing stem cells from bone marrow to add to the trellis, where she hopes they will grow into our signature body part.
Human hand created with 3D printing and stem cells
Interesting results are anticipated [from Karle’s piece Regenerative Reliquary], although it will probably take years to see them, but this type of development is what anticipates the relationship between 3D printing and the organs of the future. (translated)
“Bringing Bones to Life: Amy Karle’s Process” (video) by Charlie Nordstrom and Blue Bergen
“Amy Karle is an artist who has always been fascinated with mysteries of the body. Her most recent work uses the building blocks of life: cells. As an Artist in Residence at Pier 9, Amy collaborated with Autodesk to create “Regenerative Reliquary,” a sculpture consisting of 3D printed scaffolds for cell growth in a bioreactor. The intention is that stem cells seeded onto these scaffolds will grow into bone. She hopes that this project serves as a foundation for further exploration and opens conversations about the awe and mystery of life, transhumanism, synthetic biology, the future of medicine and implants, and things that could be made from the building blocks of life.”
American artist grows her hand from stem cells
Amy Karle decided to grow a human hand from stem cells as part of one of her projects. Initially, she planned to create a whole skeleton in this way, but so far she decided to restrict herself to just a hand.
An Artist Is Growing a Hand Out Of Human Stem Cells
It all started because Amy Karle wanted to grow her own exoskeleton. But after experimenting with 3-D printing bones while Artist in Residence at Autodesk, she set her sights on something a little smaller and more intimate. She decided to grow a human hand design.
Artist Growing Human Hand with 3D Printed Scaffolds and Stem Cells
“A major portion of this artwork that I’m creating is the cells that I use. I consider: what does it mean for this piece to have human cells growing and proliferating outside of the body? My mother was a research scientist and I grew up in the lab with her. I feel inspired by her whenever I do this kind of work. She has passed away now, but I consider what would it mean if I could use her cancer cells in this piece and they could live on?” –Amy Karle
Amy Karle: Bringing Bones to Life (video)
Amy Karle is an artist who has always been fascinated with mysteries of the body. Her most recent work uses the building blocks of life: cells. As an Artist in Residence at Pier 9, Amy collaborated with Autodesk to create “Regenerative Reliquary,” a sculpture consisting of 3D printed scaffolds for cell growth in a bioreactor. The intention is that stem cells seeded onto these scaffolds will grow into bone. She hopes that this project serves as a foundation for further exploration and opens conversations about the awe and mystery of life, transhumanism, synthetic biology, the future of medicine and implants, and things that could be made from the building blocks of life.
3D Printed Hand Trellis: Artist Goes Out on a Limb
Artist Amy Karle is Growing a Human Hand with 3D Printed Scaffolds and Stem Cells
As technology and the body become increasingly connected both in our daily lives and more significantly through medical research, Karle’s project is an important one. On a personal level as well.
An artist is growing a hand out of human stem cells
An artist is prototyping a hand grown out of human stem cells
Karle’s work is a reminder that our bodies are built out of molecules and atoms that are inanimate but take on life when brought together in the right patterns. To repair our bodies, we must first take them apart. In Karle’s work, this basic truth takes on a horrifying beauty.
3D Printed Scaffolds for Cell Culture
Open source instructions on how to make 3D printed scaffolds for cell culture by Amy Karle
How to 3D Scan Body Parts for Prosthetic or Any Use
Open source instructions on how to 3D scan the body by Amy Karle… how to capture three dimensional scan data / reality capture of the body for CAD modeling,prosthesis, wearables, fashion design, pattern making, fitness and training, portraiture, avatars, figurines, action figures and more.
Make Unique Fashion Design Patterns With Pepakura Paper Craft (Laser Cut Fabric and Leather)
Open source instructions on how to make unique fashion design patters to laser cut by Amy Karle
Marina Abramovic| Walk Through Walls: A Memoir (Book) 2016
“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.” – Marina Abramovic
Signal Culture | Amy Karle Artist in Residence
Amy Karle is a transmedia artist who works across a variety of mediums engaging questions about what it means to be human. She makes work on, around or about the body. Her artistic practice expresses ephemeral internal experiences in visual forms.
She creates devices, interactive installations and performances connecting physiology and consciousness with technology to output artwork. Her works input biofeedback and emotional sensations to create direct visualizations of the human experience so that we may study the mind-body connection and the nature of consciousness, and even learn to reprogram it.
Cyber-perception and self-knowledge: interfaces for the development of self-perception through interactivity
Situated at the threshold of the distinction between what can be considered as art or design, is the work of Amy Karle. It consists, roughly, of an experimental interaction between biofeedback sensors and the processing of this data by the classic analog computer known historically as Sandin IP. Visual and sound effects are produced from waves captured through sensors, which in turn are interpreted by archaic technology. Depending on the intentions and the state of the mental body emitted by the connected person, it is possible to control the images and sounds generated by the computer. According to Karle, art is a means for the continuous exploration of issues that involve the material body within its spiritual, evolutionary and nostalgic duality, as ways of accessing transcendence through research. Her work is intended to serve as an awareness agent, both for herself and for others, addressing essential ontological issues that seek to reach the “chords of truth” in order to ignite self-realization. (translated)
Forged Fabrics
Open source instructions on how to make high-end specialty fabrics for couture, textile art, tapestries & fashion design by Amy Karle
Body of Work
A performance artist who considers how clothes affect how one feels, Karle’s personal style picks up where language leaves off. Her day job involves projects such as connecting her body to art-making technology, sometimes for hours or days at a time, and working with companies to develop user-friendly devices.
Kirameki R.E.D
Amy Karle’s Biofeedback Artwork
Video Art Today: A collection of Videoart from the permanent collection of Galerie Chartier
Time, illusion, and the dichotomy of loss and fulfillment frequently re-emerge in Amy Karle’s Artwork through time-based processes and ephemeral experiences. Amy Karle unifies the material and immaterial by creating Art around and about the body that may function as a transformative device to transcend the material and provide an experience of the unseen. This is integrated in the way Amy Karle often offers viewers situations where they may observe themselves from a removed perspective… a catalyst for the foregrounding of transformative energies contained in the polyvalent body.
Art, Fashion, Music and Fun at “Now Showing”
Artist Amy Karle shows her fashion designs at “Now Showing” (New York City) a benefit for Scholastic Art and Writing awards, awards and scholarships she won when she was in high school that provided scholarship to College and placement of her artwork in the Corcoran Gallery and National Gallery of Art, all of which Karle says supported her to become the professional artist that she is today.
In the End, It Was All About You
How “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present” turned the viewer into the viewed