April 2009
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Christian Bök to write poetry into the genetic...
The poem can be most easily encoded by assigning a short, unique sequence of nucleotides to each letter of the alphabet. But I want my poem to cause the organism to make a protein in response—a protein that also encodes a poem. I am striving to engineer a life form that becomes a durable archive for storing a poem, and a machine for writing a poem—a poem that can survive forever.
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One & Other
This summer, sculptor Antony Gormley invites you to help create an astonishing living monument. [You] will become an image of [yourself], and a representation of the whole of humanity.
Every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days without a break, a different person will make the Plinth their own.
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