MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Penicillin, Twin Study, Stelarc
1 May 2016
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If you think about in china with the one child policy, these genetic modi cations can bene t parents based on their values & what they think will bene t their children. Artists try to dramatize or materialize these issues with genetic modi cation. If we look at some of the material used in hitchbot, you see that there has been a long- standing interest in animating things. Alexander fleming growing germ cultures (penicillin: realized that he had a pallet of colours & textures, used the germs to create images & paintings. Criticism: controversy cultural criticisms coming from religion & culture, sensationalism, artists are being used as pawns to advertise biology. Transgenic collage: fusing two different lifeforms through genetic modi cation. Alba is a glow in the dark rabbit. Kac worked with the genetics lab to take a protein from a jelly sh (green, uorescent: he then put this gene in a rabbit embryo.
