https://omeka.westernsydney.edu.au/adelta/files/original/9a46619ed5ecd390d81711d3161c7246.png 98c0e3ac6793d920b3931b35f43efae8 https://omeka.westernsydney.edu.au/adelta/files/original/76f6339fa704687775beb0d8fc6aacb8.png 2704536351461a197565bc4c2d8ba9ba https://omeka.westernsydney.edu.au/adelta/files/original/5642008922de96d45e47dc1fa0fa667e.png ea78220d3544be22c06d49ef824602a8 ADELTA Item Items included in the Australian Directory of Electronic Literature and Text-based Art (ADELTA). Platform Software platform or means of display e.g Installation / YouTube / HTML / Flash / Twitter / QuickTime YouTube Work URL The URL of the original work, included as an HTML link. <a href="http://lx.sysx.org/?page_id=11">http://lx.sysx.org/?page_id=11</a> Source of Description The source of information included in the Description, included as an HTML link to the relevant URL where possible. Gillian Fuller Artist Statement A statement about the work, as provided by the artist(s). Players clean up the kitchen laboratory of a home biotech enthusiast using weapons such as dish cloths and egg flippers. The player is attacked by nasty mutant vegetables which are the product of genetic nouvelle cuisine, and learns throughout the game of a world wide corporate conspiracy to take over the entire food chain. Bio Tek Kitchen: a computer game patch on theme of public IP loss via biotech patenting. Source of Artist Statement The source of information included in the Artist Statement, included as an HTML link to the relevant URL where possible. <a href="http://lx.sysx.org/?page_id=11">Statement from authors' website</a> Genre Game Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Starrs_Cmielewski_biotek Title A name given to the resource Bio Tek Kitchen Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Starrs, Josephine Cmielewski, Leon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1999 Description An account of the resource Bio Tek Kitchen takes the form of a first person role playing game, deploying both the pixelated aesthetics and simple but multiple narrative outcomes of early video games. The work playfully engages with many of the tropes of bio-art at the time, which critically interrogated biotechnology and its impact on public IP and agricultural workers, highlighted by the contemporaneous work of artists such as CAE, (Critical Art Ensemble) and Eduardo Kac. In Bio Tek Kitchen a first person 'shooter' uses 'weapons' that are domestic rather military to 'clean up' rather than create mess. In so doing the work not only engages with the politics of biotechnology also deploys and flips multiple early gaming conventions. Gillian Fuller <strong>Artist Statement</strong><br />Players clean up the kitchen laboratory of a home biotech enthusiast using weapons such as dish cloths and egg flippers. The player is attacked by nasty mutant vegetables which are the product of genetic nouvelle cuisine, and learns throughout the game of a world wide corporate conspiracy to take over the entire food chain. Bio Tek Kitchen: a computer game patch on theme of public IP loss via biotech patenting.<br /><a href="http://lx.sysx.org/?page_id=11">Source of Artist Statement</a> Language A language of the resource English Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski. The copyright of images posted on the ADELTA Website belongs to third parties and is included on this website by permission from copyright holders. Apart from any use permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (including fair dealing) the images may not be downloaded, adapted, remixed, printed, emailed, stored in a cache or otherwise reproduced without the written permission from the copyright holder. Game Josephine Starrs Leon Cmielewski