[Air-l] biological new media interventions?

[Ronald E. Rice]

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.
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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
http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/rice_flash.htm
http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu
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From: "Katherine Mancuso" <katherine.mancuso at emory.edu>
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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
>
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