In his essay The < body > of Net Art TCR 2-50 Jim Andrews reviews writings and artworks that share a creative interest in exploring these key aspects of the Web as important aesthetic qualities. He writes:
What I’ve tried to do here is look at the main types of resources and storage that contemporary […]
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Babble Fish of the Sea
Category: Babble Brook, CODES, J. R. Carpenter, QUOTATIONS, Sandra Seekins | 1 Comment
This portion of Sandra Seekins’s essay on the The Promises and Perils of Biotech Art also bring us many promises and perils of translation, a thorny topic that recurs again and again in this issue of The Capilano Review. As Seekins tells us, Eduardo Kac’s controversial and ongoing work Genesis begins with the imperialist […]
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The Language of DNA (or “The Code of Codes”)
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“It is a new era and we need a new kind of art.” Eduardo Kac
Sandra Seekins writes in her essay, Of Molecules and Matter: The Promises and Perils of Biotech Art, The language of DNA, the metaphors used to describe it, and how this information is “translated” is also a concern for biotech artists. Brazilian-born […]








