prof. christoph lischka

Tim-Christian gave a nice overview on the first chapter of Eduardo Kac's new reader "Signs of Life", which you can download here:

Got this from Jason Kuhrt:

Hi everyone, I hope you all had great weekends. I've decided upon the first group's topic.

Category: Biotech Culture
Topic: Open Source DNA and Bioinformatic Bodies
Quick reading to help decide interest, food for thought, insight ideas, etc:
www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas/ideas_articles/pdf/thacker_osdna.pdf
bioinformatics.org/~counsell/papers/Counsell04_HackingTheCodeOfLife.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/103/open_31-church.html

Email me back if you are passionate and interested at the above challenge. I'm looking for, ideally, a group of six, even genders, all or mostly different ethnic backgrounds, and varied skill sets.

As soon as this group is formed i would like to have a meeting to discuss ideas that could then be further discussed and presented at next Friday's class. If you are wondering what direction might or could be taken (and using that as weight for a decision to participate in this group or not) I would ideally envision an installation/project tackling a design idea/implementation/suggestion/prototype that relates to "Open Source DNA and Bioinformatic Bodies". How could design within this topic be in the future, and how wouldit be beneficial to culture/society? A practical project. I'm just throwing that out there as a starting point, at the first meeting we'd definitely all agree to a more clear goal, among other things.

Because i don't know all of you yet, I would greatly appreciate if people interested would specify their gender to make my life a little easier...thanks!

Best,
Jason Kuhrt