[Air-l] biological new media interventions?

Karen Lunsford klunsford at writing.ucsb.edu
Wed Nov 23 10:34:37 PST 2005


Perhaps a stretch, but you might be interested in the Nano exhibit at the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art.

http://nano.arts.ucla.edu/
or
http://nano.arts.ucla.edu/index2.php

Best, Karen
--
Karen Lunsford, Assistant Professor of Writing
Mailing address:
Writing Program, South Hall 1520
University of California, Santa Barbara
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805-893-8556

Quoting "Ronald E. Rice" <rrice at comm.ucsb.edu>:

> One thing I know of is DNA music.  They take the patterns of the four
> match-up letters in the DNA/RNA, and convert them into musicial notes. Then
> they mix/massage that into sounds, music, etc.  So for instance, you can
> maybe hear diabetes as slightly more discordant than non-diabetes DNA; most
> of the music is ambient, atmospheric.  An interesting twist to this is that
> while DNA sequences cannot be copyrighted, music can. So there have been
> some attempts to take newly identified DNA sequences and copyright them as
> music.
> ======================================
> Ronald E. Rice
> Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication
> Dept. of Communication
> Incoming President of the International Communication Association
> Co-Director, Center for Film, Television and New Media
> University of California
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020
> ph: 805-893-8696; fax: 805-893-7102
> rrice at comm.ucsb.edu
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Katherine Mancuso" <katherine.mancuso at emory.edu>
> To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 10:23 AM
> Subject: [Air-l] biological new media interventions?
>
>
>> Does anyone know much about biologically related new media projects
>> other than the Critical Art Ensemble?  I'm specifically interested in
>> eugenics and things similar to The Flesh Machine.  I don't know of
>> anyone who will know since my knowledge has effectively outstripped
>> that of my new media professor at this point, so I'm just fishing for
>> any sources that are helpful here.  Either analyses of CAE's work, or
>> (preferably) other new media interventions.
>>
>> thanks!
>> kathy
>>
>> --
>> Katherine Mancuso, PhD student
>> Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
>> S415 Callaway Center
>> Emory University
>> Atlanta, GA 30322
>> katherine.mancuso at emory.edu
>>
>> AAA 2005 Media/Technology sessions: http://wiki.oxus.net/wiki/AAA2005
>> Anthropologists and labor unions allied: http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com
>> Orphans V: Science, Industry, Education: http://www.sc.edu/filmsymposium
>> Social software linkage: http://del.icio.us/museumfreak
>> My weblog: http://museumfreak.livejournal.com
>>
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>> My life is my life." ~Jamaica Kincaid
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>> your dreams / and don't be afraid to expose yourself." ~Orgy
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