Are you a Biopunk? July 22, 2007
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Art, Bioinformatics, Biology, genetics, science, Sciencefun.trackback
Are you a biopunk? What is that? Wikipedia says:
A growing number of scientists, artists and cultural critics are organizing to create public awareness of how human genomic information, produced by bioinformatics, gets used and misused. On the basis of a presumed parallel between genetic and computational code, science journalist Annalee Newitz has called for open-sourcing of genomic databases. Biological Innovation for Open Society is a notable initiative of the biopunk movement.
Self-described “transgenic artist” Eduardo Kac uses biotechnology and genetics to create provocative works that concommitantly revel in scientific techniques and critique them. In what is probably his most famous work, Alba, Kac collaborated with a French laboratory to procure a green-fluorescent rabbit; a rabbit implanted with a green fluorescent protein gene from a type of jellyfish in order for the rabbit to fluoresce green under ultraviolet light.
Because that’s what this world needs most — a glowing green rabbit.
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yes, i am.
Then welcome in the team.
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cool man, thanks for the post,,,,i have written on the discussion page for wiki biopunk entry.
cheers, p.