http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/11/creating-the-poetry-bug/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/04/the-xenotext-works/
For 11 years, Christian Bok worked on "The
Xenotext" in attempt to create the world's first living poem. He has
enciphered a string of DNA into a bacterium that will become a poetic bug. It
is designed to respond to any translated genes inserted inside of the cell,
creating an operable poetry machine. Bok was inspired by reading scientific
articles done by Pak Chung Wong and Paul Davies. Wong would encode lyrics into
a bacterium while Davies formed a theory that bacteria or virus could carry
messages and communicate. Christian Bok's goal is to create a new type of
poetry form by communication with microorganism.
Interesting to see the way the dude thought about biology.
ReplyDeleteHe's misinformed about a lot of it, but interesting non-the-less.
I still appreciate his attempt to further the scientific interest.
It's cool when people try to combine the arts with science. A lot of the time, people see them as two separate entities, that art is all about emotion and science is all about logic, but they can still be combined together to create new and interesting things, such as this course is all about.
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