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Bookmark Humans Can Now "Print" Genetic Code and Engineer Life
We have learned how to manipulate the code of life. Why this hasn’t received more attention is beyond me. Synthetic Biology is a multidisciplinary field that often defies definition. Yet despite…

February 14 2017, 11:08am | Comments
Bookmark If You Were a Secret Message, Where in the Human Genome Would…
When people think about SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, they imagine messages sent via radio—Jodie Foster tuning antennas, hoping to pick up signals from the “billions and billions” of star…

April 4 2015, 1:55am | Comments
Bookmark Deadly Algorithms | Radical Philosophy
Algorithms have long adjudicated over vital processes that help to ensure our well-being and survival, from pacemakers that maintain the natural rhythms of the heart, and genetic algorithms that optimise emergency…

September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments
Bookmark “The biological significance of these sequences is not known.”
In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they were studying in a common bacterium. They mentioned them in the…

March 4 2014, 2:33pm | Comments
Bookmark Software Is Reorganizing the World | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality that…

November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments
Projects HARDCORE SOFTWARE : PIRACY TODAY
Hardcore Software presents Piracy Today, a platform for actions an interventions that challenge our dominant cultural order. The pilot exhibition presents work by four artists and practitioners who use piracy to interrogate patterns of cultural transmission. http://hardcoresoftware.org/ Wednesday 28 August 2013 | 6-10pm Open…

September 7 2013, 6:24am | Comments
Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments
Bookmark Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck – Phenomena: Not…
Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

February 11 2013, 2:53am | Comments
Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments
Bookmark Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA
Digital information is accumulating at an astounding rate, straining our ability to store and archive it. DNA is among the most dense and stable information media known. The development of new…

August 18 2012, 5:55am | Comments
Bookmark What Is Life? A 21st Century Perspective | Conversation | Edge
lecture by Craig Venter Life is code, as you heard in the introduction, was very clearly articulated by Schrodinger as code script. Perhaps even more importantly, and something I missed on…

August 8 2012, 3:25am | Comments
Bookmark Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software
For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

July 23 2012, 8:29am | Comments
Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter
Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments
Bookmark Why Aren't We Reading Turing?
It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. Expect this week to offer…

June 27 2012, 3:20pm | Comments
Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments
Bookmark Peter Krapp: Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (2011)
To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of…

May 23 2012, 9:46am | Comments
Bookmark Are there "fakes" in digital art?
The History of Art is filled with forgeries, but are there fakes in digital art fields made from creative cut-and-pastes, collaborative works and infinite works? We approached four people who, pondering…

May 23 2012, 9:37am | Comments
Bookmark Did a Copying Mistake Build Man's Brain?
A copying error appears to be responsible for critical features of the human brain that distinguish us from our closest primate kin, new research finds. When tested out in mice, researchers…

May 9 2012, 8:14am | Comments
Bookmark Post-Digitalism and Contemporary Spanish Fiction
Postdigital literature is not centered in code, but in addressing a reality shaped by a mix of coded/uncoded reality – German Sierra (german_sierra)

April 30 2012, 10:48am | Comments
Bookmark Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution
Genetic information storage and processing rely on just two polymers, DNA and RNA, yet whether their role reflects evolutionary history or fundamental functional constraints is currently unknown. With the use of…

April 20 2012, 12:31pm | Comments
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THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments
Bookmark What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?
We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

March 29 2012, 8:44am | Comments
Bookmark Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation
A data haven is "the information equivalent to a tax haven," a country that helps you evade other countries' rules on what you can and can't do with your bits. (Think…

March 28 2012, 3:42am | Comments
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Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments
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Interactive Fluid Dynamics Rendered in ASCII

March 17 2012, 4:54am | Comments
Findings Trans Terra Form: Liquid Architectures And The Loss of Inscription
by Marcos Novak To inscribe is to write in, to place the mark of one thing within the fabric of another. Carving is the prototypical kind of inscription, though every other kind of writing partakes in this modification of one substance by another: the…

March 16 2012, 7:31am | Comments
Bookmark How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"?
The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to…

September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments
Bookmark The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age
Berry’s book is less one specific philosophical argument of what software is and what code does, but consists of chapters that illuminate different ways one can approach software and software culture…

September 6 2011, 4:15am | Comments
Bookmark The Manichean World of Tim Wu
For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has…

August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments
Bookmark How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History
On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was caught…

July 13 2011, 3:09am | Comments
Bookmark Animated GIFs Triumphant
The facts about animated GIFs are stark. They only support a palette of 256 colors. No current browser lists support for animated GIF as a codec for the HTML5 <video> tag.…

July 12 2011, 7:41am | Comments

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