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== RandoGeneCode Workshop ==
 
== RandoGeneCode Workshop ==

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Part of the remote Chaos Experience - rC3 we will host a Workshop with Adam Zaretsky.

Read more and interact about rC3 and the Hackteria Global Network assembly here in the forum.

RandoGeneCode Workshop

VASTAL - The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd. presents: a poetics based Tutorial for BLAST, a cornerstone bioinformatics tool at NCBI. BLAST is the Basic Local Alignment Search tool using poetry, drawing and homologies to interpret genetic code.

Description

This is a lab about Rolling Dice, Understanding Bioinformatics Databases, Poetry, DNA Code, Drawing, Anatomical Research, Chance and Genetic Mutation. Using a foldable or randoAccees 'DNA Icosahedron' we will make a Random DNA sequence and translate it into: a poem, a drawing of the poem, a documentation chance DNA sequence in a bioinformatics database, a drawing of the actual living being that has our DNA poem in it's genome, and a drawing of the parts of that being that contain our poem. You will understand Online DNA Databases like no one else after you take this lab. No previous biology knowledge is required. Just bring your ability to draw, play in platforms and write poetry!

But what if we are not all cloistered into Gaussian distributed hyperMicro ‘individuated’ target groups with Click Bait sexual partnerz, Click Bait Politicz and Click Bait Cradle to Grave Economies? What if the cistopia, dystopia of systopia already came with the brains and sinews of poetic misinterpretation? Then the libidinal economy of complete, Non-anonymous, privacy-less Kafkaesque pornography as the spread eagle interface of big data, is not eclipsing free will through Cancel Culture and platform-government-corporate surveillance. No, it is the return of the repressed software engineer’s psyches that has colluded around the dank memic fire of privatization.

Activities

More about drawing of images from the BLAST Results:

Do some research on one of the coded NCBI BLAST organisms and the links in the BLAST results.

Look for:

A – The organism that the BLAST gene is in (latin name, common name, unusual anatomy, interesting facts, financial worth, living conditions, behavior, food, reproductive style, etc.) Do some media grabbing of the organism i.e. screen grabs or image downloads of the organisms.

B – The part of the organism that the gene from our sequence effects, i.e. what this gene does where in the body and life of the Organism. Do some media grabbing of the anatomy affected by the gene, i.e. screen grabs or image downloads of the gene or anatomical effects of the gene on the body of the organism. Metabolic cartoons are accepted.

C – Optional: do some media grabbing of the actual scientists listed and the places they work, i.e. screen grabs of pages from their website, emails, image downloads of their labs, their faces, the research, the data, even text files from their published papers or websites.

D – Feel free to incorporate web research media grab assets into your drawings through collage. This can be done by printing web grabs or images and gluing them into your sketch books or actually sketching versions of them.

E - If this is confusing, remember that this is a Literature Review and Anthropology of Science Genre Science Fiction Research Project. The Bioinformatics and Cultural Research into poetic homologues is actually a Speculative Design Fiction Semiotics Survey treating Science as a Genre in the Anthropology of Literature. I hope that clears up any confusion.

DNA Dobbelsteen (pdf) https://waag.org/sites/waag/files/Publicaties/DNA_dice.pdf


Related info

About Adam Zaretzky

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Adam Zaretsky is a WetLab art practitioner mixing ecology, biotechnology, non-human relations, body performance and gastronomy. His art practice focuses on an array of legal, ethical, social and libidinal implications of biotechnological materials and methods with a focus on transgenic humans. Zaretsky is a former researcher at the MIT department of biology and he also runs a public life arts school: VASTAL (The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd.)