Animal Pharm is an interactive installation commissioned by Bienal de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla. The project investigates the emergence of biological hybrids in biotechnologies, and our human personal, moral, aesthetic and sociocultural responses to them. The main objective of the project is to show the possibilities offered by the intersection of science with interaction design and architecture as a way to explore and envision possible bio-futures.

Today much of the cutting-edge research in animal husbandry is occurring in the new field of "pharming". Researchers are transforming herds and flocks into bio-factories in order to produce pharmaceutical products, humanised organs, medicines, and nutrients within animals’ milk and blood. Transgenic animals are able to pass on new genes to their offspring, thereby producing future generations of modified animals. Speculating on the emergence of biological hybrids in biotechnologies, the Animal Pharm project explores a landscape with cows and sheep grazing, chicken in a coop, and pigs in a sty. “Everything seems familiar; however, this is no ordinary farm. This farm of the near future is actually a pharm.

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