{{Short description|American artist (born 1980)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox artist | website = {{URL|www.amykarle.com}} | image = Amy Karle. Artist, Bioartist, Futurist.jpg | caption = Amy Karle in 2019 | name = Amy Karle | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1980}} | birth_place = New York, U.S. | movement = Ultra-contemporary art, contemporary art, conceptual art, new media art, bioart, hybrid arts, digital art, computational art, performance art | notable_works = ''Regenerative Reliquary'', ''Internal Collection'', ''Heart of Evolution?'', ''Biofeedback'', ''Cyborg Couture'' }}
'''Amy Karle''' (born 1980) is an American artist, bioartist, and futurist whose work focuses on the relationship between technology and humanity, specifically how technology and biotechnology impact health, humanity, society, evolution, and the future.<ref>{{cite news |title='How I create art with human cells' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-51709597 |website=BBC News}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{cite book |last1=Schnugg |first1=Claudia |title=Creating ArtScience Collaboration: Bringing Value to Organizations |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i_CKDwAAQBAJ&q=amy+karle&pg=PP1 |publisher=Springer |language=en |date=28 February 2019|isbn=9783030045494 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=U.S. Department of State |title=American Arts Incubator Exchange Artist Amy Karle |url=https://americanartsincubator.org/artist/amy-karle/ |website=American Arts Incubator, initiative of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs developed in partnership with ZERO1}}</ref> Karle combines science and technology with art and is known for using living tissue in her work.<ref name="Das andere Ich" /><ref name="bbc_how" /><ref name="Religion and the Digital Arts" />
In 2018, Karle was an Artist Diplomat<ref>{{Cite web |title=Atlas of Databodies |url=https://www.transcript-publishing.com/series/art-and-visual-studies/atlas-of-databodies/?f=12320 |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=transcript publishing |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Imagining Life: Amy Karle's Artistic Research Practice |url=https://www.transcript-open.de/pdf_chapter/bis%206399/9783839461785/9783839461785-004.pdf |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=Transcript.open}}</ref> sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, for a cultural exchange initiative in conjunction with the Copernicus Science Center in Poland where she led workshops focusing on women's empowerment in STEAM fields.<ref name="pl.usembassy.gov" /><ref name="docplayer.pl" /> In 2019, she was named one of the BBC's 100 women.<ref name="BBC100" />
== Personal life == Karle was born in New York in 1980<ref name="mori" /> and grew up in Endicott, outside the upstate city of Binghamton. Her mother was a biochemist and her father was a pharmacist and Karle has said she "grew up in the lab and in the pharmacy".<ref name="3dprint">{{cite web|last=Mendoza|first=Hannah Rose|date=2017-11-27|title=3D Printing Spotlight On: Amy Karle, Award Winning BioArtist|url=https://3dprint.com/195256/spotlight-amy-karle/|website=3DPrint.com {{!}} The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing|language=en-US|access-date=2021-03-06}}</ref> Karle is an alumnus of the School of Art and Design at Alfred University and Cornell University where she received degrees in Art and Design and Philosophy.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amy Karle {{!}} American Arts Incubator|url=https://americanartsincubator.org/artist/amy-karle/|access-date=2022-02-15|language=en-US}}</ref>
Karle was born with a rare condition, aplasia cutis congenita, missing a large region of skin on her scalp and also missing bone in her skull. She underwent a series of experimental surgical procedures as a child. The skin was repaired by tissue expansion surgery that was considered dangerous and experimental at the time that it was performed.<ref name=":9">{{cite web |date=2021-02-05 |title=Regenerating the human body with art: Amy Karle's bio-artistic proposal |url=https://www.fahrenheitmagazine.com/en/modern-art/Visual/regenerate-the-human-body-with-art-the-bioartistic-proposal-of-amy-karle |website=Fahrenheit Magazine |language=en |access-date=2021-03-06}}</ref><ref name="3dprint" /> This experience impacted her work and desire to heal and enhance the human body and human condition.<ref name="bbc.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-51709597|title='How I create art with human cells'|work=BBC News}}</ref> This early experience also inspired her interest in the links between biology, medical futuring and art.<ref name="BBC100" /><ref name="bbc_how" />
== Work == Karle researches and explores the impact of technology on bodily enhancement through her artwork.<ref name="Religion and the Digital Arts" /><ref name=":10">{{cite book |first1=Marlene |last1=Bart |first2=Johannes |last2=Breuer |first3=Alex Leo |last3=Freier |title=Atlas of Data Bodies 1: Body images in art, design and science in the age of digital media.Imagining Life: Amy Karle's Artistic Research Practice |pages=22–33 |date=2022 |publisher=Transcript |isbn=978-3-8376-6178-1 |url=https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6178-1/atlas-der-datenkoerper-1/}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> Her work is often classified as bioart; she describes her intentions for this work: {{blockquote|My relationship with health and the future perspective of medicine reflects the story of my life, intertwined with medical challenges and the discovery of vulnerability, fragility, strength, and complexity of the human body. The narrative of illness, with all its fears, hopes, and the quest for healing, constitutes a common thread in my research and work."<ref name="RM">{{cite web |last1=Villa |first1=Erica |title=Where Will Biotechnology Take Us? |url=https://www.radarmagazine.net/amy-karle-where-will-biotechnology-take-us/ |website=Radar Magazine |date=10 November 2023 |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>}}
Karle has created a number of artworks and performances using biofeedback and neurofeedback including:<ref name=":30" /> A work from 2011, ''Biofeedback Art'', was a durational performance where Karle's body was connected to a Sandin Image Processor that detected the changes that occur while she meditated over periods of 5–8 hours. Video art was created in the form of projections during the process.<ref name=":10" /> In the same year, ''Resonation'' involved an EEG neuroheadset connected to a Chladni plate to generate bio-signals into visuals and sounds. Her 2018 ''Performance in Salt Mine'' was conducted in the Bochnia Salt Mine and Wieliczka Salt Mine using an EEG neuroheadset to translate her brainwaves into digital music and projected visualizations, which were later used in a planetarium film she made.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://americanartsincubator.org/what-is-life-in-the-bio-tech-era-creating-a-more-resilient-future-2/|title=What is Life in the Bio-Tech Era? Creating a More Resilient Future |website=Americanartsincubator.org|first=Amy|last=Karle|access-date=10 December 2021}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite web|url=https://pl.usembassy.gov/arts-incubator-program-successfully-concludes-with-exhibition-at-copernicus-science-center/|title=Arts Incubator Program Successfully Concludes with Exhibition at Copernicus Science Center|date=21 May 2018|website=Pl.usembassy.gov|access-date=10 December 2021}}</ref><ref name=":30">{{cite journal|url=https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/152826|title=Pętle neurofeedbacku : elektroencefalografia jako strategia artystyczna w wybranych projektach z zakresu art & science|first=Ewelina|last=Twardoch-Raś|date=10 December 2019|journal=Kultura Współczesna|volume=4|issue=107|access-date=10 December 2021|doi=10.26112/kw.2019.107.11}}</ref>
Karle was named as one of the BBC's 100 women in 2019.<ref name="BBC100" />
===Selected works=== [[File:Regenerative Reliquary by Amy Karle 2016 01.jpg|alt=''Regenerative Reliquary'' artwork by Amy Karle (2016); BioArt sculpture.into bone.|thumb|''Regenerative Reliquary'' (2016), a BioArt sculpture of a hand-shaped scaffold for cell culture]] thumb|''Internal Collection'' (2016–17) sculptural garments based on human anatomy
''Regenerative Reliquary'' (2016) is a sculpture that features a 3D-printed bioprinted hydrogel scaffold shaped like the bones of a human hand placed inside a glass vessel. Human Mesenchymal stem cells from a living donor were placed on the scaffold which over time grew into bone.<ref name="Religion and the Digital Arts" /><ref name=":6">{{cite web |last=Callaghan |first=Meaghan Lee |date=2016-10-12 |title=An Artist Is Growing A Skeleton Human Hand In A Lab |url=https://www.popsci.com/lab-grown-bones-on-display/ |access-date=2023-08-12 |website=Popular Science |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Pangburn|first=D. J.|date=2016-07-06 |title=This Artist Is Biohacking The Body To 3D-Print Fantastical Human Bones|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3060592/this-artist-is-biohacking-the-body-to-3-d-print-fantastical-human-bones|access-date=2021-03-31|website=Fast Company|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2021-02-17 |title=Awareness in physical and mental changes in the bioart of Roy Ascott |url=https://fahrenheitmagazine.com/en/modern-art/Visual/Consciousness-in-physical-and-mental-changes-in-roy-ascott%27s-bioart |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=Fahrenheit Magazine |language=en}}</ref> It has been exhibited internationally.<ref name="Das andere Ich" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Sina Contemporary Art |date=8 Sep 2018 |title=新浪当代艺术丨【干货】第二届北京媒体艺术双年展（BMAB）论坛 [The 2nd Beijing Media Art Biennale (BMAB) Forum] |url=http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA5MDkzNTk0NQ==&mid=2650509437&idx=1&sn=48a5b93cddd0dcf13e762298fa46a601&chksm=880b379bbf7cbe8d3582af341524eca8c94a9a3948db8514410aef67ddfb184c40dfeec9a818#rd |access-date=2021-03-31 |website=Weixin Official Accounts Platform (Contemporary Art Channel)}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{cite web |url=https://www.paris-art.com/tokujin-yoshioka-neri-oxman-centre-pompidou-paris-la-fabrique-du-vivant/ |title=Design: Expo "La Fabrique du vivant", le biodesign au Centre Pompidou |website=Paris-art.com |date=17 March 2019}}</ref>
''Internal Collection'' (2016–2017) is a series of garments based on human anatomy. The fabrication consists of 3D body scanning, computer-aided design, laser cutting, and hand-sewing techniques to create representations of internal body systems.<ref>{{cite web |title=FILE FESTIVAL |url=https://file.org.br/file_sp_2017/amy-karle/ |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=file.org.br}}</ref><ref name=":27">{{cite book |last=Twardoch-Raś |first=Ewelina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qHVdEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22amy+karle%22&pg=PA94 |title=Sztuka biometryczna w perspektywie filozofii post- i transhumanizmu: w stronę estetyki postafektywnej |date=2021-11-02 |publisher=Wydawnictwo UJ |isbn=978-83-233-7212-7 |language=pl}}</ref>
''The Body and Technology: A Conversational Metamorphosis'' (2017) is a collection of 2D artworks by Amy Karle made by hand and with artificial neural networking, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. In this body of work, Karle coupled artificial intelligence in healthcare with generative design to devise a system for leveraging AI in the diagnosis of disease, with generative CAD designing replacement parts, and 3D bioprinting to create implants.<ref name="Ideaxme">{{cite web |last1=MacDonald |first1=Amanda |title=Amy Karle BioArtist Invites Exponential Technologist To Collaborate |url=https://radioideaxme.com/2021/02/17/amy-karle-bioartist-invites-exponential-technologist-to-collaborate/ |website=Ideaxme |date=17 February 2021 |publisher=(Podcast) |access-date=2 December 2023}}</ref>
''Morphologies of Resurrection'' (2020) is a series of 6 sculptures created as part of a Smithsonian residency, and exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-releases-28-million-images-public-domain-180974263/|title=Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain|website=Smithsonian Magazine|access-date=10 December 2021}}</ref> Karle's process examined the possibilities of reconstructive technologies and future evolution through biotechnological advancements.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.si.edu/openaccess/remix|title=Open Access Remix|website=Smithsonian Institution|access-date=10 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.si.edu/openaccess/updates/21st-century-diffusion|title=21st-Century Diffusion with Smithsonian Open Access|website=Smithsonian Institution|access-date=10 December 2021}}</ref> The artworks are novel evolutionary forms based upon extinct species to explore “hypothetical evolutions through technological regeneration”, 3D printed in biocompatible material.<ref name="design-milk.com">{{cite web|url=https://design-milk.com/futurist-amy-karle-unlocks-the-potential-of-humanitys-future/|title=Futurist Amy Karle Unlocks the Potential of Humanity's Future|date=6 April 2020|website=Design-milk.com|access-date=10 December 2021}}</ref>
=== Artificial intelligence === Her AI and bio-AI hybrid artworks have been in museum exhibitions including: ''Artificial Intelligence: AI / The Other I'' Ars Electronica Linz, Austria,<ref name="Das andere Ich" /> ''La Fabrique Du Vivant'' Centre Pompidou, Paris, France,<ref name=":13" /> ''and Future and the Arts: How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow'' Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.<ref name="mori" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Joffrin |first=Laurent |date=2018-11-28 |work=LIBERATION |title=A new special issue: AI, at the heart of the human |url=https://www.amykarle.com/liberation-a-new-special-issue-ai-at-the-heart-of-the-human/ |access-date=2023-06-22 |via=amykarle.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
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<ref name="mori">{{cite web |publisher=Mori Arts Centre |date=March 2020 |title=Future and the Arts exhibition: How humanity will live tomorrow |url=https://www.mori.art.museum/files/exhibitions/2020/01/27/faa_worklist.pdf |access-date=2 April 2021 |website=Mori Art Museum}}</ref>
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