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WebsitesThis long list of sites has been roughly grouped to reflect their content. Many thanks to Dorijan Kolundzija for compiling the core of this list and providing commentary on many of the sites.[animal art] [animal research] [genetic art/music] [art & science] [science & research] Animal ArtAugmented Fish Reality (Robotic Fish Tank) This site displays how a fish could interact with its environment outside its fishbowl! I had never heard of such a thing or ever imagined something like this in my wildest dreams. I think it would be amazing to come home from a class and find my fishbowl in front of the television or sitting on my porch! Firefly Light Sculpture Proposal for an architectural piece emulating lightning bugs.B.I.O.-BUGS *A Revolution in Evolution* http://www.wowwee.com/biobugs/biointerface.html Toy bugs with artificial intelligence? As a child, I thought Spell-It was a cool toy. The toy industry shows promise as a good place for science and art to come together. Animal ResearchThe Dog Genome Project Art Arnold Laboratory, UCLA http://www.physci.ucla.edu/html/arnold.htm Zebra finch is double-gendered, with half a male brain, half a female brain, and corresponding feathers on each half of its body. Research done at the UCLA Department of Physiological Science. Genetic Savings and Clone Genetic Savings and Clone Mission Statement: GS&C is dedicated to serving pet owners, trainers and Clients of working dogs, and wildlife conservationists, by gene banking non-primate mammals and by cloing dogs, cats, and their wild and endangered relatives. Savanna Elephant
Vocalization Project - Elephant Voices A main goal for the SEVP is to give easy access to years of field studies related to elephant communication - to elephant voices. Through better understanding of these magnificent mammals we can help to ensure their future survival - which we think is vital for our environment, our planet in general and the prosperity, in different ways, of each one of us. Genetic Artjoshua davis | studios Although this is more of a web-art site, it has some pieces pertaining to genetics and its use in art. Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum -- DNA Organic, Genetic, and Evolutionary Art I like this page because it expands on the concept of art. It directly answers three questions. What is Evolutionary, Genetic, and Organic art? This site gives me a better understanding between the differences and similarities of evolutionary, genetic, and organic art. Genetic Art and Natural Color Schemes Color scheme plays an important role with the presentation of the image. This site shows how changing colors of any particular design or image can affect the overall appearance of the design. Toward the end of the page, there is a section that pertains to breeding images where it combines a "mother" and "father" image to form to produce a "child." Genetic Memory as Art - Part 1 - Breeding This site brings up a question that drew me to it; "was his glowing rabbit art or abuse of science?" The question pertains to Eduardo Kac's glowing rabbit which resulted from his work with scientists. This site touches more on the combination of artist and scientists. Genetic Art Another site where you can make genetic art. Used a genetic algorithm to create art. After I made a piece of art, it was cool to click the tree button to see what had been done. Genetic Programming, Genetic Art Ken Musgrave created a program called "Dr. Mutatis" to program genetic images, mostly sexual reproduction that can be seen in a subliminal manner, through the use of computers -genetic programming. Ms. Guidance on GENETIC ART Genetic algorithms-usinf literature, pictures, sound, and movies -has great selection of different & disperse examples -option of interactive genetic art -ex: "The Tierra Project." Genomic Art and Culture This paper considers the value to art and culture of art based on a genomics metaphor as revealed through the work of Genetic Artists. Genetic Artistsí interpretations and responses to genomic models, function as transformative mediums affecting the way art is made and thought about as well as transforming the way developments in genetics are understood and considered by society. Genomic Art empowers all members of contemporary culture to assume a transformative role and a creative prerogative, shaping contemporary ideas about what constitutes human relations to the world. It is more a matter of the cultural use derived from any genomic research than the scientific veracity of such research. The
Transgenic Art of Telebody A cool site about transgenic art. Similar to Ed Kac, but with some more text that really allows you to learn more about this interesting topic. Biological and Scientific Art Page of links to various biological, botanical and scientific art projects on "What you need to know about" website. Duerinck Surname DNA Project Using STR (Short Tandern Repeats) and other genetic concepts, the author tries to determine if his surname Duerinck is related to similar surnames like Durinck, Duering, and Dierick. This is a very funny way to utilize the genetic concepts. Genetic Art Make your own genetic art. A set of 16 blue fractals in a four-by-four grid is given to start. I could pick any shape and fine tune the stability and mutation from 0 to 100% and end up with a whole new set of shapes. The original shape stays the same so it is interesting to watch the other patterns "evolve" without worrying about the intricate details. Geneculture There are a few interesting images on this site. My favorite was the Zoosemiotics one because it plays on the reverse copying that occurs during replication of DNAthe reflection in the water in reversed like RNA. Art inspired by genetics. People's Genome Celebration Guidotti stays in his native media, photography, while exploring the impact of genetics on people suffering from genetic disorders. However, instead of capturing the genetic disorder on film, his images seem to downplay the genetic variation, to look more at the universal beauty of our human genome, sometimes skewed by, sometimes accentuated by the variation in our genes. Genetic Discrimination Art has a unique way of showing differences and similarities between people. The UN sponsored exhibit, "Art Against Racism" [http://www.un.org/WCAR/exhibit.htm], shows how powerful a statement art can make against discrimination. The movie GATTACA explored a new world where the dominating form of discrimination was no longer race or sex, but genetic. This site is a primer on where we stand on discrimination based on genetics. Centre for Law and Genetics This is a center that focused on the legal an ethical issue with gene cloning and genetic engineering. It features articles like: Banning of cloning human embryo in Kentucky, and Selecting and transferring spider gene to cows to produce tough fibers from milk. These ideas echo with Alexis Rockman's artwork The Farm (2000). Your Genes, Your Choices: Exploring the Issues Raised
by Genetic Research MOST INTERESTING -- An online book Your Genes, Your Choices. Using some case studies or examples, the author tries to explain genetic concepts in the language of the general public. It also raises some ethical questions and possible implications associated with medical genetic researches. I really like the case studies idea, which make the genetic concepts more applicable to everyday lives. Genetic MusicMolecular
Music Biochemists/musicians working to generate music from proteins -Dr.Linda Long- musician; 5 years in the works of molecular music & music therapy -simple site..not really elaborate/informative -provokes my interest, however Genetic Music: Music from DNA and protein sequences
Genes and music -kind of boring but informative -lots of info and links -music from DNA/Protein math Algorithmic Arts Software for Generative Music Interesting b/c you can hear samples of protein sequences! -nice for the ears and gives a good idea of what molecular music is all about -eerie sounding but pretty amazing Music of the Plants Molecular music site featuring music created from the sequences, secondary and tertiary structures of plant proteins. Genetic Music Sourcepage Some very interesting research findings on molecular music, including the finding that converting the DNA sequences to music helped to make remembering and recognizing specific DNA patterns easier, and the proposal that the meaning of proteins and of music springs from a similar origin -- the repetition and elaboration of thematic sequences (Intersection of art and science). Most Interesting Site Art and ScienceHow Random Art Works This site combines art and mathematical science. Mathematical formulas are generated by the computer and a related picture is drawn representing the formula. The formulas are random, but as they get more complicated, the pictures that are generated become more elaborate. The Interactive Art Gallery All of the art work are made specifically by two artists "who have created,transformed or painted their pictures on the computer only." The pictures are categorized into worlds in the Computer Art Gallery. The worlds contain pictures that are themed to portray different senses to the visitor. The effects that the pictures give are remarkable because there is a soothing sense to the particular world. Eduardo Kac Artist Website Mutate our perception of human body to an artificially controlled and electronically transformed object -very interesting -seen throughout human history -DNA, cells, mutations -dense Transhumanities: Evolutionary and Organic Art Transhumanities -individual growth -films and documentaries -evolutionary and organic art -contains a great many links Design|Media Arts: Genetics and Culture (UCLA course) Art & Science Collaborations,
Inc. This website is for public users to allow them to obtain the knowledge of how artists and scientists use technology in their work -It allows artists and scientists to come together to collaborate their knowledge to create a new work of art/science -There are research links, as well as information from the ArtSci2001 Symposium. Gamasutra - The Art & Science of Making Games One of the biggest technologies at this point in time is video games. Video games are excellent examples of a art/science collaboration and the result of it. -This website has up-to-date information on current video games as well as conference information for those that are interested in learning about video games. -There are latest news and featured games. I found this website very interesting and is not necessarily "genetic" but it does involve both art and science, which is making a big splash in the public eye these days. Tissue Culture & Art(tificial) Womb This was really funny and a bit eerie at the same timethey make "worry dolls" out of genetically grown materialeither cells, or biodegradable polymersthey have a face and everything. Leonardo On-Line: The Leonardo Gallery The Arts Catalyst http://www.artscatalyst.org/ Alife @ Fusebox http://alife.fusebox.com/morph_lab.html This was really fun to play with. An interesting feature on the site was also the description of how it works. It described what genes worked in it and how and talked about the genotypes and phenotypes which is what I like to learn about in my science classes. Insite iT: Information Techlology On-line Magazine "Science the Glows in the Dark" article about glow in the dark animals including work by Eduardo Kac. Im not sure my stand on the issue, but it's very interesting nevertheless. SIGART ACM Special Interest Group in Artificial Intellignce (SIGART). Another repository for artificial intelligence information. Figuring out how to make things think like us is similar to figuring out how to actually make us (with cloning and what not), its a little erie. Harold Cohen's "Aaron" - the robot as an Artist I thought this was interesting, because we may consider Professor Cohen or the robot Aaron to be the artist. I would consider the robot to be a greater work of art than the paintings that the robot produces. This is similar to the case with the gorilla that learned how to paint. We can expand the realm of art when we put the creation of art into the hands of non-humans. I think it would be interesting if someone tied paint brushes or stamp rollers to mice and let them run around a canvas. One could even layout a maze-like boundary so mice could only paint in certain areas of the canvas. Nancy Burson - artist's website Many interesting projects based on tension between art and science. Nancy Burson on PBS Human Race machine. Most interesting ideas to me. Human Race Machine - Article about Nancy Burson We as different races are so similar in many ways. We share 99.9% of our genetic material and "there's no one gene for race." This link informs us about the Human Race Machine, which morphs a person into five different races: Asian, Caucasian, African, eastern Indian, and Latina. There's a picture of a woman who appears as five different races; however, the only thing that seems to change in each face is the hue. I thought that this link was amazing by the fact that the lady appears to be different races by just changing her hue. Our society tends to link race by the color of our skin. Critical Crossings - Where Bio-Fears and Bio-Hopes Intersect On line exhibition of projects reflecting intersections between art and science. Nanomedicine Art Gallery Practically a search engine itself. Art-Tech Exhibitions In a not quite as scientific demonstration, you stand in a control room 2000 feet away from a hill. By pressing your fingers on the control panel, microcontrollers respond and send the pattern to a series of lights up the hill. This pattern gets expressed as orange lights on a much larger scale and can be changed as quickly as you can move your hand. I would like to see that in the dark. The First Human Male Pregnancy - Mr. Lee Mingwei This website is unbelievable. I did not think that a male pregnancy was possible. However, when I looked more into the site, I began to believe that maybe this website is real because it was so scientific. There was coverage of a lot of information on this pregnant man. There were various pictures and articles on this story. However, even though the site does not say that this is a hoax. I've come to believe that it is because I went to Time and cnn.com to find the various articles, but they did not appear. I guess this is a form of art work that is truly amazing for a man to come up with this idea with complete detail. Could there be a time in the future when males can become pregnant? This is hard to believe, but I remember someone telling me that it would be impossible because males don't have the necessary organs. Interesting ideas. Science and ResearchPoisonous Mushroom Pictures Mushrooms are quite beautiful, especially when they are poisonous. A recurring theme in nature is to use bright colors as warning signs to predators that something is poisonous. This is evident in mushrooms. A Visual Interpretation of the Table of Elements This guy visualized every element in the periodic table. They are very beautiful digital images. Often scientists have to create an image for something they can't see, or don't know about. Nanoworld Image Gallery Electron microscopy should be the next media for artists because you can take a picture of anything, even a fruit fly, and it will look cool. (although I think it's pretty expensive and many labs don't even have access to electron microscopes) http://www.debutart.com/DnA/dna.htm I couldn't see the direct connection of DNA to these images, but there was something familiar about each image. I couldn't put my finger on it. Simulated Evolution This site was not very high-tech, however the idea of showing the evolution of these bugs was interesting.
Very interesting and brief -reading about the future & human cloning -mutations = fantastical human creatures -"Imaging the Future" seems to be a really great show -photography + realization = intersection of science, technology, and photography. NOVA Online| Cracking the Code of Life This is an interesting history of the cracking of the genetic code. The cool parts were the discussions of the ethics of manipulating genes. University of Bristol Scanning Probe Microscopy Group Click on MOVIES on the left sidebar There are some amazing images of scanning probe microscopy, which I had never heard of before. There is also a cool one of a human chromosome! It's at prophase, in the X shape. AMNH Genommic Revolution Exhibition SKIP what's on the page - go straight to the "Future Survey" middle of page, right hand side. Take the poll, you'll be surprised at some of the answers!!! They asked questions about confidentiality and more. REALLY INTERESTING when they show other people's responses. Evolution Begins with the Inheritance of Gene Variations "DNA from the Beginning" history of the study of evolution as a discipline. Create Your Own Genetically Healthy Child Online! SCARY SITE!!!! -create your own genetically healthy child online! -using DNA to locate "bad" genes -this can't be for real???!!! (I hope NOT) The Exploratorium This museum is very interesting. I felt that this museum meshed art and science very well. -When I went to visit this museum, it was entertaining and there were many interactive technologies which can be easily seen as a work of art. -The interactivity of the museum was very different from normal museums and I enjoyed it thoroughly and felt it was relevant of the art/science idea, which was why I included this link. AMNH - Genomic Learning Laboratory Although I wasn't able to enjoy the full effect of this site, I liked what they had done. If you visit their museum, you can sequence your own DNA, then you return to this site and enter your sequence ID that was issued and they do some cool things with YOUR genes (with cytochrome B, evolution etc.). The National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project The Visible Human Project is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. The long-term goal of the Visible Human Project is to produce a system of knowledge structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts.Department of Energy - genome programs http://www.doegenomes.org/ MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab http://www.ai.mit.edu/ RYT Hospital http://www.rythospital.com/ Science as Culture http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html
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