Botánica Transgénica (Transgenic Botanic)
Today, more than 59.4% of Colombia's arable land is occupied by a small number of genetically modified plant-clone species that are commercially registered as the property of a few transnational food companies. Right now, the hegemony of Cavendish banana monocultures—a fruit plant species of transgenic-commercial origin—in Latin America and other parts of the world threatens to considerably diminish plant, animal, and micro-organic biodiversity in all the territories where it has been established. Apart from the well-known and denounced link between banana monocultures, violence, and land dispossession in Colombia, monocultures (such as the Cavendish banana) are intrinsically related to the emergence of pests and diseases that not only affect their health and productivity but also deteriorate the quality of the soil once occupied by polycultures.
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Atractor Studio
(founded 2017, Colombia) is a group of artists who work with mechanical, electronic, and computer engineering techniques from the field of the arts. They focus on the visualization of natural phenomena and mathematical and scientific paradigms related to sociocultural phenomena not only of the western hegemonic culture but also of other ways of knowing and understanding the scientific, through the interaction of the viewer with a digital and analogue substrate.