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A Country without Men is a critical, speculative project. | A Country without Men is a critical, speculative project. | ||
What is the future of our offspring in times of Big Data and Synthetic Biology? The project poses questions and raises awareness via artistic research built upon a scientific basis. It’s a game of probabilities. | What is the future of our offspring in times of Big Data and Synthetic Biology? The project poses questions and raises awareness via artistic research built upon a scientific basis. It’s a game of probabilities. | ||
- | =====background===== | + | |
For most of the past decade I have been working with bees and I have been growing, hacking, digitizing, building, and thinking about alternative beehives for urban areas. I based my ideas for this new project upon the structure of a bee colony' | For most of the past decade I have been working with bees and I have been growing, hacking, digitizing, building, and thinking about alternative beehives for urban areas. I based my ideas for this new project upon the structure of a bee colony' | ||
- | Thinking | + | The thinking |
- | **research methodology: | ||
- | I will build a public database of Men, with sequenced DNA data and algorithms that translate this information in a selection of ‘qualities and possibilities’ and collects and displays them in a catalogue for possible buyers. | ||
- | The DNA of every man in this database is sequenced. Their inner (emotional, cognitive) and outer (fysionomy) qualities are described and can be isolated from the sequence. It's just a CRISPR-cas9 away to combine them into your ideal baby! The more sperm data is available, the more possibilities for the perfect match. | ||
- | 'The buyer' selects some criteria from the database and an AI algorithm starts a search in the ' | ||
- | * datamining of men, face recognition (facebook, advertising, | ||
- | * building databases and categories | ||
- | * analysis of the fenotypes | ||
- | * fake DNA sequencing | ||
- | * synthetic biology | ||
- | * make 'top ten' propositions to ' | ||
- | * visualizing | ||
- | * ... | ||
- | =====artwork===== | + | **Methodology for art/science research:** |
- | | + | Build a database |
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- | | + | |
- | * make database | + | |
- | * which genes transmit which qualities? Scientific imagery, visualizations. | + | |
- | * Database can do some propositions to buyer via randomizing algorithms. Visualizations on the fly. Changes possible. Compose | + | |
- | * collect data => privacy rules | + | |
+ | * building a database and categories | ||
+ | * AI algorithms extract specific physiognomies (tall/ | ||
+ | * analysis & description of the fenotypes | ||
+ | * (fake) DNA sequencing - I can write an open call for participation ... | ||
+ | * (synthetic) biology - pairing the qualities with specific sequences in the DNA | ||
+ | * make 'top ten' propositions to ' | ||
+ | * visualizing possible designer babies via randomizing algorithms | ||
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+ | research risks & costs | ||
+ | | ||
* store massive amount of data => where? | * store massive amount of data => where? | ||
- | * mine useful information / data mining | + | * mine useful information / data analysis |
- | * analyse data / AI algorithms | + | * (synthetic) biologist, evolutionary biologist |
- | * instead of using sophisticated 3D animation (as might be expected with this kind of topic), the visualizations proposed by the database' | + | * to avoid problems with privacy rights, the faces of the Men in the database |
- | + | ||
- | part 1: installation with research elements | + | |
- | * laboratory | + | |
- | * metal construction for hooking-up different experiments | + | |
- | * medical imagery | + | |
- | * interactive databases (cfr. Peopledatabase) | + | |
- | * installation with new prototypes (e.g. spermatheca), | + | |
- | * stamboom van the country without men in een tapijt geweven | + | |
- | part 2: | + | **artwork presentations: |
- | * Big Data Tapestry with novel materials (algae, bacteria, ...) | + | work part 1: installation with research elements |
+ | * laboratory with construction for hooking-up different experiments, | ||
+ | * online databases and (medical imagery video) animation of designer babies | ||
+ | * DIY-kits for DNA sequencing | ||
+ | |||
+ | work part 2: | ||
+ | * Big Data Tapestry | ||
* women' | * women' | ||
* reference towards technology of first computers (punch cards), jaquard, Ada Lovelace, ... | * reference towards technology of first computers (punch cards), jaquard, Ada Lovelace, ... |
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