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@comm.ucsb.edu http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/rice_flash.htm http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Katherine Mancuso" <katherine.mancuso@emory.edu> To: <air-l@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@emory.edu
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