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Looking at other college blogs and previous years' presentations has kind of helped in getting a hang of how things need to progress...but main point still being - we need to get going!  Maybe, looking at the parts in the registry and going over them in class might be a good idea to get em grey cells moving??
 
Looking at other college blogs and previous years' presentations has kind of helped in getting a hang of how things need to progress...but main point still being - we need to get going!  Maybe, looking at the parts in the registry and going over them in class might be a good idea to get em grey cells moving??
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So, we saw Avni's bioart piece today - I'm not sure if I should call it a piece, work, chick, exhibit, or anything for that matter. More than the point Avni made with the 'chicken in the kaleidoscope' - about science and art having a justification for any damn thing as long it serves their purpose, it brought back to surface the whole issue of ethics involved with the iGEM. We justify ourselves by saying it's worth the risk...but would this  justification have been just as easy as it is if we had been dealing with an organism which we actually encounter in our lives 'physically'? I think not. I think I'll stop here.
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Revision as of 06:05, 28 May 2009

Who and Why?

3rd Year Student, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology

(sanya.rai.gupta@gmail.com)

What draws me to the IGEM is that whole idea of venturing out to explore something seemingly alien and distant from our usual workspace/ playgrounds. It seems bizarre and virtually impossible to be doing what we are setting out to do, but therein lies the challenge and the fun! And the cool part lies in the fact that we have not been 'programmed' by specializations to follow any kind of structure!

15th May 2009

- Scientific diagram and DNA code guide for Plastico Collectilus (mock idea for new bacteria)

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- Illustration of how the Plastico Collectilus works.

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16th, 17th, 19th May 2009

So far so good. We have a few ideas and some idea about how to go about TRYING to make them work. Also, the exposure we are getting to different departments of NCBS, is slowly, but surely helping me absorb technical knowledge, which I'm sure will gradually start making sense. We have been meeting a lot of interesting people everyday - discussing with them not just what they have to share with us with respect to their fields of expertise but also discussing general as well as art & design specific issues - which gives us a different perspective towards things like ethics, color etc.

27th May 2009

I THINK we are slightly stuck! Ideas are supposed to be pouring in from all ends right now - and that is just not happening! We really need to make our geosmin idea cooler i.e. if we do work on it. Any ideas anyone? My mind is hovering around light triggers, navigation, and sound equalizers...but I'm not quite sure how unique or exciting or manageable any of these could be!

Looking at other college blogs and previous years' presentations has kind of helped in getting a hang of how things need to progress...but main point still being - we need to get going! Maybe, looking at the parts in the registry and going over them in class might be a good idea to get em grey cells moving??


28th May 2009 So, we saw Avni's bioart piece today - I'm not sure if I should call it a piece, work, chick, exhibit, or anything for that matter. More than the point Avni made with the 'chicken in the kaleidoscope' - about science and art having a justification for any damn thing as long it serves their purpose, it brought back to surface the whole issue of ethics involved with the iGEM. We justify ourselves by saying it's worth the risk...but would this justification have been just as easy as it is if we had been dealing with an organism which we actually encounter in our lives 'physically'? I think not. I think I'll stop here.

More Later.