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The ornamism project

Why is it that dogs aren’t yet blue with red spots, and that horses don’t yet radiate phosphorescent colors over nocturnal meadows of the land? Why hasn’t breeding of animals, still principally an economic concern, moved into the field of aesthetics?

Vilém Flusser, Curies Children, Artforum {1988}

‘The ornamism project’ functions not only as an informative platform for ornamental organisms, but also to the entire world of art that explores the boundaries of the natural world for aesthetic or conceptual goals. Bioart, transgenic art, environmental art; art that is conceived on the borders of what we traditionally accept as nature.