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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. | ||
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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' | ||
- | The thinking about a similar matriarchal structure for our future human society is at the basis of this research project. With the digital era in full swing, rules of kinship, courtship and family structures are completely changed from 100 years ago. There were in former times individual, direct and very personal experiences at the basis of a love affair and family structure, dating & love in our contemporary society seems to be evolving towards a complete digital, online experience. Social media, avatars, online dating, online sex. Combine these facts with the growing attention for and knowledge of biotechnology and synthetic biology, and ' | + | The thinking about a similar matriarchal structure for our future human society is at the basis of this research project. With the digital era in full swing, rules of kinship, courtship and family structures are completely changed from 100 years ago. There were in former times individual, direct and very personal experiences at the basis of a love affair and family structure, dating & love in our contemporary society seems to be evolving towards a complete digital, online experience. Social media, avatars, online dating, online sex. Combine these facts with the growing attention for and knowledge of biotechnology and synthetic biology, and ' |
- | **Methodology: | + | **Methodology |
Build a database of Men -or better: a database of their inner and outer qualities. The DNA of every man in the catalogue is sequenced. All men's cognitive and physiognomical qualities are described and related to their DNA. Then 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.' | Build a database of Men -or better: a database of their inner and outer qualities. The DNA of every man in the catalogue is sequenced. All men's cognitive and physiognomical qualities are described and related to their DNA. Then 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.' | ||
- | * datamining of men, face recognition (facebook, advertising, pop culture, movies, fashion, | + | * datamining of men, face recognition (social media, newssites, entertainment websites, advertising, fashion |
- | * building | + | * building |
- | * analysis of the fenotypes | + | * AI algorithms extract specific physiognomies (tall/ |
- | * fake DNA sequencing | + | * analysis |
- | * synthetic biology | + | * (fake) DNA sequencing |
+ | * (synthetic) biology | ||
* make 'top ten' propositions to ' | * make 'top ten' propositions to ' | ||
- | * visualizing | + | * visualizing |
- | * ... | + | |
- | + | research risks & costs | |
- | =====artwork===== | + | * collect data => privacy rules check |
- | * datamining algorithms, face recognition (social media, newssites, popmusic websites, film websites, advertising, | + | |
- | * AI algorithms extract specific physiognomies (tall/ | + | |
- | * Cognitive qualities description | + | |
- | * make database with classification + DNA sequences | + | |
- | * 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 your ideal man, work with the DNA of many! | + | |
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- | * collect data => privacy rules | + | |
* 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 |
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- | 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 | ||
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+ | 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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