The subject of research for this paper is Australian artist Patricia Piccinini, a speculative designer. Patricia Piccinini’s work reveals the complexity of contemporary genetic technology involved in the creation of life, expressing the interrelationship between technology and humanity. (Piccinini, 2019) Her work interprets and redefines the relationship between humanity and the creation. She focuses on the possibility of future bioethics that is, the increasingly complex development of and integration between humans, nature and other living creatures.

Zijun Guo. The Art of Patricia Piccinini. Frontiers in Art Research (2021) Vol. 3, Issue 2: 65-69. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2021.030213.

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