Christian Bok's project on poetry and DNA is an interesting four year project where Bok has created only 2 poems over the projects time period because he created them with a computer to be "written" in bacteria. "...only the opening lines have been published — “any style of life / is prim…” for the first; and “the faery is rosy / of glow…” for the second.." says the article!!! The thing didn't all work though. BUT, he did create the worlds first microbial critic! Which is awesome.
So basically the dude is starting something new and fresh AND artsy! Which is actually really cool! The article says that Bok probably isn't the first to make a breakthrough using bacteria and stuff but his usage of the "poetic protein is a step forward towards new types of information storage!
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It's a great break through is it not? Though it's as you mentioned, he's not the first to use bacteria and manipulate it's protein. A bacteria capable of reciting poetry is such an odd thing in this day and age, I kind of find it amusing and yet I could somehow suggest that it would be a work of art -in a sense.
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