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Archive for May, 2006
May 28, 2006 at 8:33 am · Filed under Uncategorized
this is about 1/10th of the mitochondrial genome sequence.
what you see is a spectrogram/sonagram of the genetic sequence after it has been organized or sequenced into sonic levels.
the four most visible lines represent signatures of the nucleotide bases.
at the extreme botton are signatures of the amino acids that the nucleotides translate.
I have added to this image marks, drawings, stimuli, whatever…mostly I was trying to get a feel for what my hand would do to the sound if I started drawing.
The effect is an increasing sense of wilderness within the highly ordered presence of genetic constraint- the environment.
here is an example of the sound
2′50
1.2 mb
May 27, 2006 at 8:57 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Below is a spectrogram of the human mitochondrial genetic sequence
It was made by first translating the sequence into music using Bio2Midi (Algorithmic Arts). The wav file was then imported to the translator below yielding this image:
here is the sound file
May 27, 2006 at 1:54 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Would you like to read my teaching philosophy?
YES / NO
May 26, 2006 at 11:29 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
i mimic what i see
i mimic what i do
May 26, 2006 at 7:39 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Talking with my advisor Phoebe today may have helped me remember something that was important to my original research plan.
Perceiving non-human points of view and the idea of empathy is a fundamental characteristic of each of my two current research plans (using cinema as a simulacra of the genome; architectural and sculptural artifacts for religious and scientific convergence). Each of these sought to provide some way to experience empathy or represent nature, respectively. For empathy, cinema may provide opportunities to visualize a “gene’s eye view.” By fusing shared elements of religious and scientific tools and spaces, the ways that science and religion represent nature similarly can be communicated.
I suppose what is common is that each tries to represent something about non-humans and seeks alternative ways of doing that without the aid of advaanced technology or visualization tools. In a sense, simple emphasis on composition, framing, point of view, and lens choice can affect dramatically what and how people perceive nature.
Perhaps it is as simple as providing an animal or plant with the ability to use a human artifact in their own way, providing a sense of their functional perspective.
a feeling for the organism…
May 24, 2006 at 9:04 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
May 24, 2006 at 8:02 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
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