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1. Biopoetry

   Biopoetry is a new poetic form invented by Eduardo Kac in 1999 through “Genesis,” in which Kac created an “artist’s gene,” a synthetic gene that he translating a sentence from the biblical book of his artwork produced by and then Biopoetry Eduardo Kac Biopoetry is a new poetic form invented by Eduardo Kac in 1999 through “Genesis,” in which Kac created an “artist’s gene,” a synthetic gene that he translating a sentence from the biblical book of Genesis into Morse code converting the Morse code into DNA base pairs according to a conversion principle specially developed by the artist for this work. The sentence reads, “Let man have dominion over the fish fi of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” It was chosen for what it implies about the dubious notion of divinely sanctioned humanity’s supremacy over nature. The Genesis gene was incorporated into bacteria, which were shown in the gallery. Participants on the web could turn on an ultraviolet light in the gallery, causing real, biological mutations in the bacteria. This changed the biblical sentence in the bacteria.

   Sumeya Hassan - 06.05.2015 - 19:33