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 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 "My life is not a quota or an action to affirm an idea of equality. My life is my life." ~Jamaica Kincaid "she's nothing more than fiction / she dreams in digital / compose your dreams / and don't be afraid to expose yourself." ~Orgy
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
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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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 Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3010 klunsford@writing.ucsb.edu 805-893-8556 Quoting "Ronald E. Rice" <rrice@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@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
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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Stelarc's work always comes to my mind when people bring up CAE's work. His is much more about the body and its extension, but he did explicitly tie in new media aspects. One place where you might get more response and where the CAE gent's hangout is NETTIME nettime.org On Nov 23, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Katherine Mancuso wrote:
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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There's the critical work of Eduardo Kac - Cary Wolfe is writing on him, and Kac has a book out at the moment. But there are literally dozens of people working in this area - the SLSA conference in Chicago brought up the issues/names of a number of them - Alan ( URLs/DVDs/CDroms/books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - revised 7/05 )
along similar lines, you may want to check out Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body (http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=257&BookID=217) and Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information (http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=310&BookID=263) david On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Alan Sondheim wrote:
There's the critical work of Eduardo Kac - Cary Wolfe is writing on him, and Kac has a book out at the moment. But there are literally dozens of people working in this area - the SLSA conference in Chicago brought up the issues/names of a number of them - Alan
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Hi You might find Eugene Thacker's 'Biomedia' and The global genome' useful - Suzanne Anker's 'Art in the molecular age' is a good context text - on this list Jenny Sunden and I are both doing different kinds of work in this area - Jenny gave a related paper at the last AoIR and I can also let you have further refs and work in prog if of any use. All the best Kate -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Katherine Mancuso Sent: Wed 11/23/2005 6:23 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org 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 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 "My life is not a quota or an action to affirm an idea of equality. My life is my life." ~Jamaica Kincaid "she's nothing more than fiction / she dreams in digital / compose your dreams / and don't be afraid to expose yourself." ~Orgy _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
For "old school" bio-new media, there is always the telegarden: http://www.usc.edu/dept/garden/ - Alex On 11/23/05, O'Riordan, Kate <k.oriordan@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi
You might find Eugene Thacker's 'Biomedia' and The global genome' useful - Suzanne Anker's 'Art in the molecular age' is a good context text - on this list Jenny Sunden and I are both doing different kinds of work in this area - Jenny gave a related paper at the last AoIR and I can also let you have further refs and work in prog if of any use.
All the best
Kate
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Katherine Mancuso Sent: Wed 11/23/2005 6:23 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org 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
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
"My life is not a quota or an action to affirm an idea of equality. My life is my life." ~Jamaica Kincaid "she's nothing more than fiction / she dreams in digital / compose your dreams / and don't be afraid to expose yourself." ~Orgy _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Alan Sondheim -
Alex Halavais -
david silver -
Jeremy Hunsinger -
Karen Lunsford -
Katherine Mancuso -
O'Riordan, Kate -
Ronald E. Rice