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biotechnology [2008-01-03 12:25] – 121.45.187.182biotechnology [2011-02-20 12:30] – [Alter Nature Symposium] takufoam
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 +==== Alter Nature Symposium ====
 +
 +Picked up at Alter Nature Symposium 
 +A symposium about Designing Nature; Designing Human Life; Owning Life
 +Fri, Feb.18, 011 - University of Hasselt [BE]
 +
 +Adam Zaretsky's talk about Art & Gene Action: Pathways to Expression.
 +"Diversity is a record of the unpredictability of anatomy. Time based living media shows control's drift. Beyond the anarchistic love of results, what can drive the widest range of aestheticised bodies to leap into science's waiting arms?"
 +A particular vocabulary that triggers free jazz tunes on the internal jukebox - 
 +["Improvisational Jazz in the Research Room is allowed only in War Times"]
 +"Rococco Biolistic Transgenic Arts, Synchromism Electroporation Germline Arts; DNA OP Art Stem Cell Microinjection Arts, Constructed Painting Lipid Transfer Genetic Arts, 3rd Millennium Eugenic Husbandry Bioarts; Sexual Diversity as a Reproductive Fitness Test..."
 +Then, again, jazz, with Miles D.- "...new bodies appear, Pangaean Bodies, with the widest range of Aesthetics, so that canyons, swamps, caves, of feeling can be expressed anatomically. Nature as transvestite."
 +http://www.emutagen.com
 +
 +Here and now In the future, the performative performance- by designer/researcher J. Paul Neeley - President of Gaia Corporation (2023), "company of the past next 12 years" - introducing
 +
 +**'Owning Life' - Biotech Patents and Risks (The fear factor)**
 +
 +Gaia Corporation's core business is "to appropriate compensation for Earth's work", with the mission "to act as stewards of the earth's intellectual property, to promote and protect bio diversity, and to manage synthetic biological risk." 
 +How to understand the Intrinsic Value of an invention and arrange the intellectual property - who owns the genes is responsible for the consequences". The companies shareholders are Plants & Animals. It uses the following formula to calculate what a product economically means to the system - to arrange an appropriate compensation for Earth's work: 
 +
 +Effective License Price = 
 +(Human Utility x Eco Utility)//3// / % Biomass x Risk)
 +----
 +           (Gaia Factor* + E**) x GGP
 + 
 +* Proprietary
 +
 +** Total Energy Consumption
 +
 +
 +BIOCOMMONS: "Open source does not work in biological systems. Capitalism is the only model that protects Earth's Resources" - http://www.jpaulneeley.com/info.html
 +
 +**EU-Patents** 
 +
 +//Dr. Philippe Jacobs (Ghent University applications) 
 +//
 +
 +__Definition of Patents__
 +Legal title granting the holder the right to prevent others from using an invention without authorisation.
 +It is not a right to practise the invention
 +Based on Dr. Berthold Rutz and 
 +
 +//Dr. Berthold Rutz (EU patent examiner)
 +//
 +
 +"The patent system added to the fuel of interest to the fire of genius." Abraham Lincoln
 +According to Rutz the first written account of a patent on living matter, was on baker's yeast in 1787. 'However, only at the end of the 20th century with the rise of genetic engineering was pattent law applied more broadly to living organisms. Today, genetically modified microorganisms, plants and animals are patentable in many jurisdictions, including the US, Japan and EU. Still, many intuitively reject the concept of 'Patents on Life'. The recent public debate on about synthetic biology and artificial life -f.i. on the pending patent on Craig Venter's minimal genome bacterium- has reignite this discussion: Can owning a patent on a living organism be equated with owning life?
 +Does synthetic biology differ substantially from "classical" genetic engineering and what role do patents play?"
 +
 +A 2-sentence pop-up during Wauthier Robyns, CEO of Assuralia insurance company talk (words)
 +"Insurance, the silent keystone of modern life" - "The problem with nanotech is the difficulty to estimate its risk."
 +
 +
 +
 +
 +**Related / Resources**
 +
 +**Alter Nature** - http://www.alter-nature.be/en 
 +A multi-event project by Arts Center Z33 [Hasselt, [BE] a.o., including Exhibition "Alter Nature - We Can" that focuses on 'the different ways in which people have displaced, manipulated or designed nature: from small gardens to private islands, from carrots and bonsai trees to acoustic plants and orange pheasants.'
 +Curated by Karen Verschooren
 +till March 13, 2011 - http://www.z33.be/en/projects/alter-nature-we-can
 +
 +**Certified Copy**
 +An exhibition on the notions of copying and cloning at Verbeke Foundation [BE] till April 10, 2011- http://ornamism.com/2010/
 +
 +**Center For Environmental Studies** (Centrum voor Milieukunde- CMK); University of Hasselt [BE]
 +research focused on disturbed molecular mechanisms within plants which are subject to stress caused by heavy metals.
 +Core competences
 +1. Effects of (a)biotic stress factors at different biological organisation levels: from molecular to ecosystem level
 +2. Remediation and management of contaminated soils – Renewable energy production
 +3. Policy supporting environmental research
 +Contact person: Prof. Dr. Ann Cuypers
 +http://www.uhasselt.be/CMK-en
 +
 +
 +
 +//by bartaku
 +//
  
  
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