April 28, 2009 Link to post
Christian Bök to write poetry into the genetic code of bacteria
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.
