Victimless Leather
A Bio-Art Project
Book • 2015
Victimless Leather is a bio-art project by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, featuring a miniature, lab-grown leather jacket.
It uses immortalized cell lines on a biodegradable polymer matrix to explore the potential of tissue engineering in consumer products, raising questions about the ethics of using animal hides and the concept of a 'victimless utopia'.
It uses immortalized cell lines on a biodegradable polymer matrix to explore the potential of tissue engineering in consumer products, raising questions about the ethics of using animal hides and the concept of a 'victimless utopia'.
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