Comments on: Move 36 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/04/move-36/ a blog and podcast dedicated to discussing text arts forms Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:11:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en Writer Response Theory 2004-2005 wrt@writerresponsetheory.org (Writer Response Theory) wrt@writerresponsetheory.org Talk Radio Comment-cast: Move 36 Comment-cast: Move 36 Writer Response Theory Writer Response Theory wrt@writerresponsetheory.org http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/iTWRT.JPG WRT: Writer Response Theory http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress 144 144 by: Natasha Vita-More http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/04/move-36/#comment-41780 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:09:06 +0000 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/04/move-36/#comment-41780 It is one thing to manipulate living matter be it prokaryotic (bacteria nuts/no nucleus) or eukaryotic (animal/plant) life. It is another to instill a poetic, literary consequence, bringing art to another level. Kac does this marvelously in "Move 36." BioArt may only hold promise if there is a sense of poetry, aesthetics, intelligence and meaning. Simply redesigning life to make it look different or using BioArt to blame capitalism, consumerism or the biotech industry for humanity's inability to think critically about its own conditions is, I believe, a sore use of BioArt when there is so much more than can be communicated to inform, protect and warn society about its possible foibles. Kac has an amazing ability to apply his vast talent to creating wonder, beauty, poetry, and intelligence. This speaks far wider and louder than being angry at the world and using art to blame. Thank you Eduardo - you are exemplar! Natasha It is one thing to manipulate living matter be it prokaryotic (bacteria nuts/no nucleus) or eukaryotic (animal/plant) life. It is another to instill a poetic, literary consequence, bringing art to another level. Kac does this marvelously in “Move 36.”

BioArt may only hold promise if there is a sense of poetry, aesthetics, intelligence and meaning. Simply redesigning life to make it look different or using BioArt to blame capitalism, consumerism or the biotech industry for humanity’s inability to think critically about its own conditions is, I believe, a sore use of BioArt when there is so much more than can be communicated to inform, protect and warn society about its possible foibles.

Kac has an amazing ability to apply his vast talent to creating wonder, beauty, poetry, and intelligence. This speaks far wider and louder than being angry at the world and using art to blame.

Thank you Eduardo - you are exemplar!

Natasha

]]> Natasha Vita-More It is one thing to manipulate living matter be it prokaryotic (bacteria nuts/no nucleus) or eukaryotic (animal/plant) life. It ... It is one thing to manipulate living matter be it prokaryotic (bacteria nuts/no nucleus) or eukaryotic (animal/plant) life. It ... by: WRT: Writer Response Theory » Blog Archive » Unreadable Text Art http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/04/move-36/#comment-7550 Thu, 11 May 2006 16:32:54 +0000 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/04/move-36/#comment-7550 [...] Rather than scale or aspect, it is the individual units of code and their rendering that is important - this is a form of writing. Particularly interesting when considering such artistrty is the decision to choose one’s own coding system rather than using some standard - Sai’s code, which he terms “arbitrary,” is reminiscent of Kac’s unique approach to encoding the alphabet in DNA - in particular, in the similar decision to remove spaces and punctuation marks rather than encode them. [...] […] Rather than scale or aspect, it is the individual units of code and their rendering that is important - this is a form of writing. Particularly interesting when considering such artistrty is the decision to choose one’s own coding system rather than using some standard - Sai’s code, which he terms “arbitrary,” is reminiscent of Kac’s unique approach to encoding the alphabet in DNA - in particular, in the similar decision to remove spaces and punctuation marks rather than encode them. […]

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