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| biotechnology [2011-02-20 17:57] – [Alter Nature Symposium] 91.86.27.95 | biotechnology [2011-02-20 19:25] – [Alter Nature Symposium] takufoam |
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| Some thoughts picked up at the "Alter Nature Symposium", about Designing Nature; Designing Human Life; Owning Life | Some thoughts picked up at the "Alter Nature Symposium", about Designing Nature; Designing Human Life; Owning Life |
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| Fri, Feb.18, 011 - University of Hasselt [BE] | Fri, Feb.18, 011 - University of Hasselt [BE] |
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| **Designing Nature** | === Designing Nature === |
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| **Adam Zaretsky - Art & Gene Action: Pathways to Expression** | **Adam Zaretsky - Art & Gene Action: Pathways to Expression** |
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| | A project that is "a pursuit towards Intentional Germline Manipulation of the human inheritance. Transgenic humans will live to experience life beyond the limits of benefit or dignity but with added attributes." |
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| "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?" | "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?" |
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| "Improvisational Jazz in the Research Room is allowed only in War Times" | "Improvisational Jazz in the Research Room is allowed only in War Times" |
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| "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..." | "Through art historical diversity as a methodology, we can include all of art's refined movements as pathways to gene expression. F.i. under-explored avenues include: 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..." |
| "...new bodies appear, Pangaean Bodies ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea_(album)|jazz again]]), with the widest range of Aesthetics, so that canyons, swamps, caves, of feeling can be expressed anatomically. Nature as transvestite." | "...new bodies appear, Pangaean Bodies ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea_(album)|jazz again]]), with the widest range of Aesthetics, so that canyons, swamps, caves, of feeling can be expressed anatomically. Nature as transvestite." |
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| http://www.emutagen.com | http://www.emutagen.com |
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| **Designing Life** | **Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (artist/writer/designer) - Synthetic Aesthetics - How Would You Design Nature?** |
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| | **Will scientists become the exclusive designers of living technology? |
| | Is this even design, or must we find new words to describe it? We might have to define new design tools to |
| | negotiate this changing interpretation of life.** |
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| | Synthetic aesthetics is a research project at Stanford and Edinburgh Universities, initiated by scientists to investigate what this kind of design is and what it might hint at for future science and culture. It includes scientists, artists and designers. |
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| | http://www.daisyginsberg.com |
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| | === Designing Life === |
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| **Koen Vanmechelen** talked about his well known //Cosmopolitan Chicken Project// launched in the late nineties to create through cross-breeding domestic chickens from all over the world the "truly cosmopolitan chicken"; 'a metaphor for the global cultural and genetic mix that diversity and hybridization create'. | **Koen Vanmechelen** talked about his well known //Cosmopolitan Chicken Project// launched in the late nineties to create through cross-breeding domestic chickens from all over the world the "truly cosmopolitan chicken"; 'a metaphor for the global cultural and genetic mix that diversity and hybridization create'. |
| Synthetic biology will change our lives through several fields like medicine (synthetic DNA, cheaper drugs, targeted drug delivery sys, biosensors and stem cell therapies); metabolically designed microorganisms and optimized photovoltaic systems (artificial leaves) for the production of biobased energy, fuels and other biobased products; Biosensors for rapid detection in military applications." | Synthetic biology will change our lives through several fields like medicine (synthetic DNA, cheaper drugs, targeted drug delivery sys, biosensors and stem cell therapies); metabolically designed microorganisms and optimized photovoltaic systems (artificial leaves) for the production of biobased energy, fuels and other biobased products; Biosensors for rapid detection in military applications." |
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| Mr. de Vriend showed the [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8470691.stm|video]] of an interesting experiment with bacterial cells that fluoresce in synchrony; protein waves of light go through cells; Jeff Hasty, University of California. | Mr. de Vriend showed the [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8470691.stm|video]] of an experiment with bacterial cells that are turned into synchronised "genetic clocks" - programming them to switch a fluorescent protein on and off, so that protein waves of light go through cells. The aim of the research and engineering experiments at Jeff Hasty Lab (University of California) is "to **use computational tools to design biological circuits from scratch**". |
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| And pointed out the importance of **[[http://partsregistry.org|The Registry of Standard Biological Parts]]**; "a continuously growing collection of genetic parts that can be mixed and matched to build synthetic biology devices and systems." | And pointed out the importance of **[[http://partsregistry.org|The Registry of Standard Biological Parts]]**; "a continuously growing collection of genetic parts that can be mixed and matched to build synthetic biology devices and systems." |
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| //Here and now In the future, the performative talk - by designer/researcher J. Paul Neeley - President of Gaia Corporation (2023), "company of the past next 12 years" - introducing -and commenting on- | |
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| **'Owning Life' - Biotech Patents and Risks (The fear factor)** | === Owning Life === |
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| | //Here and now In the future, the performative talk - by designer/researcher J. Paul Neeley - President of Gaia Corporation (2023), "company of the past next 12 years" - introducing -and commenting on- Biotech patents, risks, the ownership of life |
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| 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." | 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." |
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| **On EU-Patents** | **On EU-Patents (drives and fears)** |
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| //Dr. Philippe Jacobs (Ghent University applications) | //Dr. Philippe Jacobs (Ghent University applications) |
| "Insurance, the silent keystone of modern life" - "The problem with nanotech is the difficulty to estimate its risk." | "Insurance, the silent keystone of modern life" - "The problem with nanotech is the difficulty to estimate its risk." |
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| **Related / Resources** | === References / Further Reading === |
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| **Alter Nature** - http://www.alter-nature.be/en | **Alter Nature** - http://www.alter-nature.be/en |
| **Garreau, Joel** (2005) Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies, and What It Means to Be Human - Doubleday. http://www.garreau.com/main.cfm?action=book&id=2 | **Garreau, Joel** (2005) Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies, and What It Means to Be Human - Doubleday. http://www.garreau.com/main.cfm?action=book&id=2 |
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| ** Hasty Lab of Systems Biodynamics - http://biodynamics.ucsd.edu/index.html | ** Hasty Lab of Systems Biodynamics** - http://biodynamics.ucsd.edu/index.html |
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| | **Paolo Antonelli's (MoMA) article on governing by design**: "design applied not as a mere aesthetic or functional tool but as a conceptual method, based on scenarios that keep human beings in focus, with the means consequently allotted in elegant, economic, and organic ways to achieve the imagined goals. Even though design alone will not solve everything, it will, as always, help create and implement effective solutions that are attuned to human nature." - http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/on_governing_by_design/ |
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| // notes by bartaku | // notes by bartaku based on live talks and hand-outs |
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