Generating Ideas

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http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/dna/dna.html Liquid crystal images of DNA are even more beautiful to me than its helical chemical structure. There are liquid crystal images of amino acids and a variety of other compounds as well. This link was my favorite.

http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/mmi/stannard/emimages.html Encoded by the smallest genomes, these viruses still have elaborate patterns of repeating protein subunits. Some are enclosed by a helical structure, while others have an icosahedral conformation.

http://www.ladyslipper.com/paphhyb.htm I was amazed at the different variety of ladyslippers. Maybe someone has already found a way to breed blue roses. I searched for a site with blue roses, but it seems like no one has accomplished making one yet.

http://www.naturallist.com/fungipoi.htm Mushrooms are quite beautiful, especially when they are poisonous. A recurring theme in nature is to use bright colors as warning signs to predators that something is poisonous. This is evident in mushrooms.

http://www.wowwee.com/biobugs/biointerface.html# Toy bugs with artificial intelligence? As a child, I thought Spell-It was a cool toy. The toy industry shows promise as a good place for science and art to come together.

http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/page3.html This guy visualized every element in the periodic table. They are very beautiful digital images. Often scientists have to create an image for something they can't see, or don't know about.

http://www.uq.edu.au/nanoworld/images_1.html Electron microscopy should be the next media for artists because you can take a picture of anything, even a fruit fly, and it will look cool. (although I think it's pretty expensive and many labs don't even have access to electron microscopes) http://www.debutart.com/DnA/dna.htm I couldn't see the direct connection of DNA to these images, but there was something familiar about each image. I couldn't put my finger on it.

http://www.lhham.com.sg/poems/dna.html This was the first poem I ever read on DNA. It shows uncertainty and criticism for the future of genetics.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/dna/dna.html Liquid crystal images of DNA are even more beautiful to me than its helical chemical structure.

http://www.chemicalgraphics.com/paul/DNA.html# Outdoors I think the artist did a good job of taking DNA out of its ordinary context and present it in a creative way.

http://conform.suffocate.org/ This site is an electrical version of the game telephone. An image is sent to a person, in which the person can add or take out different aspects of the original image. Then the image is passed to another person. The series goes on to include a total of 20 different images. This project illustrates how one idea can be altered into various different representations depending on the person's choice of change.

http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/~vic/faceprints/ This link is quite interesting. A male's face can be morphed into a female's face at a slow changing rate, which is controlled by the participant. Different commands are asked, such as, find the healthiest or most attractive looking female. This link illustrates how everyone has a different perception for certain aspects of the human facial form.

http://snaffle.users.netlink.co.uk/form/evolutio.html I like this page because it expands on the concept of art. It directly answers three questions. What is Evolutionary, Genetic, and Organic art? This site gives me a better understanding between the differences and similarities of evolutionary, genetic, and organic art.

http://gs2.sp.cs.cmu.edu/art/random/howto/index.html This site combines art and mathematical science. Mathematical formulas are generated by the computer and a related picture is drawn representing the formula. The formulas are random, but as they get more complicated, the pictures that are generated become more elaborate.

http://www.ransen.com/Articles/GenArt.htm Color scheme plays an important role with the presentation of the image. This site shows how changing colors of any particular design or image can affect the overall appearance of the design. Toward the end of the page, there is a section that pertains to breeding images where it combines a "mother" and "father" image to form to produce a "child."

http://arttech.about.com/library/weekly/aa031401a.htm This site brings up a question that drew me to it; "was his glowing rabbit art or abuse of science?" The question pertains to Eduardo Kac's glowing rabbit which resulted from his work with scientists. This site touches more on the combination of artist and scientists.

http://www.unm.edu/~dehart/intro2000/2000images/mixed%20media/physical%203.html The human form with the emphasis of bones are presented as an art form by Dennis L. DeHart. He uses several different combinations of mediums to create his artwork such as wood, glass, halogen and fluorescent lights. His images look like as if they are images in a hospital or health clinic.

http://www.iamstatic.com/signal.html This opening page of this site presents an interesting looking tomato. The tomato reminded me of the imprinted tomato that was shown during class; however in this case, the image on the tomato has actual looking teeth. This effect gives a sense of life to the tomato.

http://www.hyperart.com/ The images that are comprised on the site are interesting and vivid. They represent a "hyperreal world; it's a world of substituting elements of the real for the real." The images are impressive, but they give off an eerie feeling.

http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/mml/projects/ArtGallery/Worlds_E.html All of the art work are made specifically by two artists "who have created, transformed or painted their pictures on the computer only." The pictures are categorized into worlds in the Computer Art Gallery. The worlds contain pictures that are themed to portray different senses to the visitor. The effects that the pictures give are remarkable because there is a soothing sense to the particular world.

http://alife.fusebox.com/morph_lab.html This was really fun to play with. An interesting feature on the site was also the description of how it works. It described what genes worked in it and how and talked about the genotypes and phenotypes which is what I like to learn about in my science classes.

http://www.huxtable.com/java/art.html Another site where you can make genetic art. Used a genetic algorithm to create art. After I made a piece of art, it was cool to click the ³tree² button to see what had been done.

http://www.cambrianart.com/ This program was really fun. It was called evolutionary art and genetic programming. What I liked about it was that it was visually attractive and, even better, interactive!

http://www.geneart.org/offerings.htm The pieces of art concerning genetics on this page were really interesting. Some of my favorites were Frank Moore¹s ³Beacon,² which was beautiful, especially considering his history, and Sidney Harris¹ ³Seven Humorous Insights.² This was my favorite of the two because of the ideas that it brought to my attention.

http://www.geneart.org/laverdiere.htm The statement at the end of this was interesting. It said that you will be able to grow genious will be grown on trees and can be ordered. An interesting concept, but seems too unrealistic and pescimistic.

http://home.pacbell.net/s-max/scott/simevol.html This site was not very high-tech, however the idea of showing the evolution of these bugs was interesting.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome/ This is an interesting history of the cracking of the genetic code. The cool parts were the discussions of the ethics of manipulating genes.

http://www.geneart.org/rubenstein.htm This cute kid first caught my attention. The idea of being able to design or mutate new living beings is a very cool concept. I know that some may see it as a problem, but I don¹t see how it can hurt anything if that is what one truly desires.

http://www.geneart.org/miller-steve.htm This portrait of a person does not seem to be a person at all. It raises the question of whether we are simply our genes, however, that is no replacement for our outward appearance.

http://praystation.com (talk about in class) -although this is more of a web-art site, it has some pieces pertaining to genetics and its use in art. -inspired from bacteria mentions in his monthly calendar a lecture reguarding genetics and art -i tried emailing him reguarding this subject but he never replyed to my question

http://geneact.com -basic overview of genomic art and links -topics pertaining to genomic art -easy to navigate through

http://scit.wlv.ac.uk/events/latham.html -human creativity and generation of power through computing -engineering programming - a bit dry...did not hold my interest really

http://artworks.co.uk/index2.htm -included work of several interesting artists, including computer art, computer programming, video games, and organic art -attaches several links that are worthy of viewers time -easy to navigate; simple and efficient site

http://go.to/organicart/ -has really great images of art that was inspired by organic science -beautiful images -expanded computer artwork; detailed

http://snaffle.users.netlink.co.uk/form/evolutio.html (i would like to talk about this one in class) -excellent description/definition of evolutionary art, genetic art, and organic art -contemporary artform -computer-generated art -mutations of originals -clear, concise, and easy to navigate

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/darrenf/dream.htm -beautiful images by artist Darren Fisher, a "computer artist" who is inspired by science -really great DNA image called: "Fractal DNA Creatures Contemplate War on Mankind"

http://www,wizardnet.com/musgrave/mutatis.html -Ken Musgrave created a program called "Dr. Mutatis" to program genetic images, mostly sexual reproduction that can be seen in a subliminal manner, through the use of computers -genetic programming.

http://www.t0.or.at/msguide/ai/genart.htm -genetic algorithms-usinf literature, pictures, sound, and movies -has great selection of different &disperse examples -option of interactive genetic art -ex: "The Tierra Project"

http://artech.about.com/cs/biologicalart/ -electronic art -artists as cultural detectives -communication -beauty inspired from nature -simple to navigate -a little boring though -photography & genetic memory as art -alogorithms

http://www.icp.org/exhibitions/foreign_body/fb_press_release.html. -very interesting and brief -reading about the future & human cloning -mutations= fantastical human creatures -"Imaging the Future" seems to be a really great show -photography + realizqtion =intersection of science, technology, and photography http://molecularmusic.com/ (talk about in class) -biochemists/musicians working to generate music from proteins -Dr.Linda Long- musician; 5 years in te works of molecular music &music therapy -simple site..not really elaborate/informative -provokes my interest, however

http://www.whozoo.org/mac/music/sources.htm -genes and music -kind of boring but informative -lots of info and links -music from DNA/Protein math

http://www.algoart.com/dnamusic/ (share w/ class) -interesting b/c you can hear samples of protein sequences! -nice for the ears and gives a good idea of what molecular music is all about -eerie sounding but pretty amazing

http://www.ekac.org/transgenic.html -mutate our perception of human body to an artificially controlled and electronically transformed object -very interesting -seen throughout human history -DNA, cells, mutations -dense

http://www.aec.at/lifescience/magazine/art/kac.htm/ -again by Prof. Kac--very informative -social impact of computer technology, biotechnologies, and genetic engineering -"transforming forever how society approaches the notion of life." -social, political, ethical issues

http://www.genochoice.com/ (show to class) -SCARY SITE!!!! -create your own genetically healthy child online! -using DNA to locate "bad" genes -this can't be for real???!!! (I hope NOT)

http://www.duke.edu/`giftwrap/kac.html -interesting to see what other universities are involved with this field -art, ethics, & genetic engineering -deals w/ artist Eduardo Kac -GFP bunny -"transgenic" http://www.telebody.ws/telekroker.htm -altered human figure in digital world -essay by Steve Gibbon; interesting -artifical-life, transgenic body -telebody is his show about a "digital" transfomer of bio-genetic flesh

http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Art/index-2.html#EVOL -transhumanities -individual growth -films and documentaries -evolutionary and organic art -contains a great many links

http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/ I like how the artist decided to take a picture of a normal cell and have the genetic material come out to you.

http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/students.html I like the picture in the corner representing the organization. its very eye appealing

http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/12/concept/index.html This reminds my of Dolly the sheep!!!

http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/19/concept/index.html These are pictures of James watson. i have read his book the double helix.

http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/18/concept/index.html Learning about phages made DNA really interesting for me.

http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/20/concept/index.html I like the radiation warning sign. it makes me wonder what consequences likes ahead when we play with DNA.

http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/34/concept/index.html Perhaps this picture is trying to tell us the idea of cross breeding a human and frog my favorite one

http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/40/concept/index.html I always learned about fruit flies with DNA

http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/39/concept/index.htm The art is fascinating with the idea of DNA is all around us.

http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/36/concept/index.html This is a really cool representation of DNA being interacted with other molecules.

http://www.henryart.org/gene-sis/splash.html - Exhibition that of several artists work created in response to recent development in human genomics.

www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/%7Epv28/ Interesting digital media installations. Some of them relates to genomics.

http://www.thestranger.com/2000-09-28/art2.html People do anything these days. Sculpture made of urine collected from artists of the contry. I wouldn't mind to see it. No pictures, sorry!

http://www.margigeerlinks.com Have a look at this one. It maybe interesting to show it in class. It's eery

http://www.dse.nl/fabriek/project/96/F_FELD_E_HOVEN/Margi_Geerlinks.html This one complements the previous. The image is very interesting. No commentary needed.

http://www.jaqbox.com/JC/2001ptgs.html Commentary on both the visual culture and everyday practice of scientific investigation by highlighting similarities between artistic and scientific practice.

http://www.sfcamerawork.org/past_exhibits/Flesh.html

http://www.kala.org/sparks1.html

http://www.sfcamerawork.org/past_exhibits/Flesh.html

FLESH Jeanne Friscia o Jenny Rosenberg o Heather Sparks o Tina Wolfe (need to get back to them) Sparks's Tom's Twister was a four-foot high laminate sheet with enlarged and digitally imprinted scans of her hair and skin samples, by Heather Sparks. The laminate curled, spiral and natural, allowing the material to dictate its own form. The translucent scans, genetic references horizontally striated in vertical bands, referenced certain individual characteristics which cumulatively revealed a digitized self-portrait of the artist.

http://www.massurrealism.com/gal.htm Today I was thinking that the discussion of genetics and art had to include the work of the surrealists, but I didn't want to resource to the same ones than always (Dali, Magritte, De Chirico). Then I found her: Melissa Szalkowski

http://www.studio-visit.com/December1999/progressreport1.html This artist, Jeff Wyckoff, uses his experiences in the scientific field to create art. I don't fully understand some of his work. I'm most intrigued by the images of the faces on a liquid infected by bacteria.

http://www.molec.com/biology/notes/mini-circles/macmode.html DNA makes kinks in front of your eyes. Actually the scientists had to change the ions in the solution (from magnesium and chloride, to zinc and bromide). Then with probe microscopy the before and after are seen. Both remind me of volcanoes I got to fly over in Hawaii. Maybe this is some kind of thermal image technique.

http://spm.phy.bris.ac.uk/ then click on MOVIES on the left sidebar There are some amazing images of scanning probe microscopy, which I had never heard of before. There is also a cool one of a human chromosome! It's at prophase, in the X shape. I couldn't get the movie to download though so I don't know if it goes through mitosis or if there are different angles. Other ideas:

http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Gallery/Visitors/Jones1.html A three-dimensional picture representing the new field of nanobiotechnology. The artist says the blue and white on the bottom is supposed to be a branching fungus. I think this piece is showing the methods of math (on the cube), molecules in different forms, and a real organism against a surreal landscape. The simplicity and the wide range of colors attracted me to the art.

http://www.spe.sony.com/Pictures/SonyMovies/movies/Gattaca/design_child.htm I like this genetics game better than the genochoice site. Here you "design a child" and I played with the option "roll the genetic dice". So after entering my characteristics and family history and those of a guy (I didn't make him perfect) here are the results. They asked me again if I wanted to change my mind and engineer the child. I would never want to make a designer child. Considering my chance for a genetic "disease", my parents might not have had me. (Watch the "Coda" on Deleted Scenes of the GATTACA DVD.) However my boy/girl was "lucky" and didn't get many of the diseases. EYE COLOR: Brown SHORTSIGHTEDNESS:20/50 STATURE:5'4'' to 5' 8'' LONGEVITY:80-90 SPEED:13-10 secs. SEXUAL ORIENTATION:HETEROSEXUAL DEXTRECITY:RIGHT HANDED ADDICTIVE SUSCEPTIBILITIES: sibling

http://www.eldian.com/chaoslab/ChaoslabGallery.html This is a pure art site with a ton of cool fractals on it. However links to the rest of the "chaoslab" are pretty interesting as well, with games, art, and science all combined. The bouncy ball page alone is entertaining, although it has nothing to do with this class.

http://www.aklein.homestead.com/files/radiant_logic.htm Where does logic go? Do we learn from ourselves, or more importantly, from mistakes in history? "Radiant Logic" suggests that our minds are like this giant flowchart that end up branching in some directions, reaching an endpoint, and being circular in some parts. Also the symmetry of this piece is pleasing to look at. Genetically and subconsciously, humans prefer symmetry in other people so I guess here it works for the art too.

http://www.loni.ucla.edu/SVG/Images/ImageSet1.html "Composite variability elipsoids of 20 normal subjects" comes from the UCLA Lab of Neural Imaging. It is a picture of one brain with 20 sets of data superimposed so that the colors come out in a spectrum. They range from highly varied areas (personality areas) to less varied areas (low level functions). The use of color is amazing but it all comes from inside real people.

http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?n_2=1§ion=MyLycos&pitem=HEALTH Here is a news blurb from my homepage talking about the president of Celera's (company that sequenced the human genome) resignation. Celera wants to manufacture drugs based on their knowledge of the genetic code. This shows the corporate aspect of biotechnology. http://www.ChemicalGraphics.com/PovChem/ Another chemical drawing program I found. This one works for Windows and Mac and specializes in DNA. I'll see if it has the capability of creating, but I know it can load saved DNAs that the program supplies.

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/genomics/4_changing/atwork.html A picture of one of these microarrays was in one of my biology textbooks. In reality they are microscopic but at the museum the display fills up a room. The microarray can compare thousands of genes at once by displaying which are expressed actively and which are not. Expressiveness is determined by mRNA (converts genes to proteins) that was isolated by nucleotide probes. Then the mRNA is different colors on the microarray and is scanned by a computer to compare all the genes.

http://www.asci.org/ -This website is for public users to allow them to obtain the knowledge of how artists and scientists use technology in their work -It allows artists and scientists to come together to collaborate their knowledge to create a new work of art/science -There are research links, as well as information from the ArtSci2001 Symposium.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ -This museum is very interesting. I felt that this museum meshed art and science very well. -When I went to visit this museum, it was entertaining and there were many interactive technologies which can be easily seen as a work of art. -The interactivity of the museum was very different from normal museums and I enjoyed it thoroughly and felt it was relevant of the art/science idea, which was why I included this link.

http://www.gamasutra.com/ -One of the biggest technologies at this point in time is video games. Video games are excellent examples of a art/science collaboration and the result of it. -This website has up-to-date information on current video games as well as conference information for those that are interested in learning about video games. -There are latest news and featured games. I found this website very interesting and is not necessarily "genetic" but it does involve both art and science, which is making a big splash in the public eye these days.

http://www.brantacan.co.uk/bridges.htm -Bridges are seen as only beautiful works of architecture. However, this website indicates that bridges involve delicate planning of how it must be built so that it is sturdy and in doing so, one uses science to determine this matter. -Bridges are an excellent example of beautiful works of art yet have such detailed science involved. -This website shows many examples of different bridges and the scientific rules involved in building a bridge.

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/genomics/6_dna/index.html SKIP what's on the pagego straight to the "Future Survey" middle of page, right hand side. Take the poll, you'll be surprised at some of the answers!!! They asked questions about confidentiality and more. REALLY INTERESTING when they show other people's responses. ------

http://research.amnh.org/programs/genomelab/ Although I wasn't able to enjoy the full effect of this site, I liked what they had done. If you visit their museum, you can sequence your own DNA, then you return to this site and enter your sequence ID that was issued and they do some cool things with YOUR genes (with cytochrome B, evolution etc.) --------

http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/ol/olMainFrames.html These people think semi-living things are the tool of the futureso they are kinda like AZIZ and the other guy, BUT they actually make the things. So thought the Aziz group was cool, but I like these guys more because they construct 3-D versions of the pictures they takethis one was an eye retractor ----------

http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/ars/arsMainFrames.html this was really funny and a bit eerie at the same timethey make "worry dolls" out of genetically grown materialeither cells, or biodegradable polymersthey have a face and everything --------------

http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/gallery/gallery314/rapoport.htm l look at the "Arbor Erecta" pieceI found it wittyalso a subtle point she does not make is the idea of us eating plants and their genome, incorporate those chemicals into our genome and one day giving it back to them when we die and are put into the ground. ----------

http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/gallery/gallery314/anker.html VERY VERY VERY nice!!! if you skipped everything, read this one please! I was blown away by the assertion the artist/author madeI never thought about this!!!! --

http://www.jmvanwyhe.freeserve.co.uk/image_links.html this is about Phrenology I do research in a field (Neurology) that was founded in part on this notion Ruth mentioned the quote about "Holmes' forehead" this is what she was talking about.

http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/gallery/gallery314/potter.html I got something different than what the artist explained to me this piece is about preserving like the Jurassic park idea I also wonder if nature means for things like this (or when a man is found frozen after 100s of years) to happen? -------------

http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/gallery/gallery314/wight.html I was not so much impressed with the artwork itself, but more with what he had to say it reminded me again that IF we can control our genes would we start getting bored with the perfect height, weight, hair color and start adding other features (like the ones mentioned in this piece)? wouldn't we be making mutants would there be an end? --------------

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible /visible_human.html this was emailed to me by Ruth it's interesting I'm not sure if it's the same one I had read before (they were vague with the origin of it)a few years ago (about 5 or 6) a male prisoner sentenced to death wanted to make up for his criminal life and offered his body to science in a special way! I can talk about this in class if anybody is interested...cool story

http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/

http://www.er.doe.gov/production/ober/hug_top.html

http://mendel.berkeley.edu/dog.html

http://gdbwww.gdb.org/

http://arttech.about.com/cs/biologicalart/

http://www2.mc.maricopa.edu/anthro/origins/asm97.html

http://www.geneletter.org/10-02-00/features/artandgenetics.html

http://www.science-art.com/

http://www.scienceartco.com/

http://www.artscatalyst.org/

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,44446,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1567000/1567039.stm

http://www.physci.ucla.edu/html/arnold.htm

http://128.32.209.193/shawn/art.page.chimera.html

http://www.geneart.org/

http://members.tripod.com/vismath7/proceedings/brodyk.htm

http://www.ucsc.edu/research/genome_forum/exhibit.html

http://www.amnh.org/science/genomics/

http://www.calarts.edu/~biotech/

http://www.artadn.com/fr/index-fr.html

Genetic Supermarkets: The theme of these websites is the different ways we make it easy to design our perfect babies. Though our true genetic make-up has not been completely mapped, we have developed many methods of determining the heritability of certain diseases and illnesses. By recording these traits and eliminating the chances of inheriting them, we are able to design more flawless children. As easy as we can select for eye color and height, we will be able to find and correct the errors in each of our genome. Imagine taking one of your germ cells, cleaning all errors, and through in vitro fertilization, creating perfect children with your spouse.

http://www.cryos.dk/screening.asp

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/OntheEighthDay.html

http://newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio99/bio99016.htm

Eugenics and prometheism: "an effort to breed better human beings ­ by encouraging the reproduction of people with "good" genes and discouraging those with "bad" genes." Another quote: "The danger of curing the effects of genetic disease through postnatal intervention, and the accumulation of bad genes, is equivalent to allowing toxins to build up in the environment and curing them with vitamin supplements. Resources must not be wasted on curing disease when it is more cost effective to merely eliminate the disease from the genetic capital of the eugenic nation. We can easily live with numerous minor genetic flaws, but it should never be policy to correct obviously adverse genetic diseases when they can be detected and eliminated from the gene pool, even though that is not our primary goal." Sites which talk about the history, practices, and ethics of genetic screening. Because much of the data came from the 19001s in America, there is an obvious bias and prejudice of other cultures:

http://www.eugenicsarchive.org

http://www.eugenics.net/papers/mission.html - Argues that there is a need for the human race to create populations of more and more intelligent people because civilization is only advanced through key intelligent humans. However, they believe that the gene pool is becoming "polluted" due to the fact that more unintelligent people have greater numbers of children than intelligent.

http://www.prometheism.net/ - Wow. The need to breed intelligence at what ever the cost. Talks about how sex, reproduction (breeding), and family are three different things and should be kept separate. Strange religion, but interesting.

http://anzwers.org/free/chimaera/island.html - prometheism and a deserted island; the ability to breed intelligent communities in peace. 3. Hedonistic Imparitive ­ through genetic technology and nanotechnology, we will be able to alter our mental states just like manipulating diseased genes. Imagine ending depression and predispositions in people for "mental pain" receptors. "Over the next thousand years or so, the biological substrates of suffering will be eradicated completely. "Physical" and "mental" pain alike are destined to disappear into evolutionary history. The biochemistry of everyday discontents will be genetically phased out too. Instead, matter and energy will be sculpted into perpetually life-loving super-beings. Their states of mind are likely to be incomprehensibly diverse by comparison with today. Yet all will share at least one common feature: a sublime and all-pervasive happiness." "States of "dopamine-overdrive" can actually enhance exploratory and goal-directed activity. Hyper-dopaminergic states can also increase the range and diversity of actions an organism finds rewarding. So our descendants may live in a civilisation of well-motivated "high-achievers", animated by gradients of bliss. Their productivity may far eclipse our own."

http://www.hedweb.com/hedethic/hedonist.htm

http://www.art.net/ Not necessarily related to genome, but a great link for information and links to galleries and works of art that include painting and what not.

http://gdbwww.gdb.org/ A very cool site that lets you actually search for different things and search by string in the actual human genome project. I find this very cool because it actually puts the genome project at your fingertips for perusal.

http://telebody.ws/telekroker.htm A cool site about transgenic art. Similar to Ed Kac, but with some more text that really allows you to learn more about this interesting topic.

http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/art+biobibl io.html Leonardo bibliography, for info about a ton of books related to the topics we are studying. I think thses will come in handy later in the class for our projects.

http://www.asu.edu/it/fyi/insideit/2001/10/article5.html More information about glow in the dark animals. Im not sure my stand on the issue, but Its very interesting nevertheless.

http://www.design.iastate.edu/SP_EVENTS/EE/geo.html More information about George Gessert, extending the work of Mendel in the current time by using his knowledge of art and his visual aesthetic, to create totally new creations, that are real.

http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html The tree of life. I really don't know how this relates, but its an interesting online tree of information.

My fav: http://www.ai.mit.edu/ A whole lab at MIT dedicated to artificial intelligence. I have a bad feeling they've got nerds burning the midnight oils making weird creatures that will ultimately lead to the destruction of the human race.

http://www.acm.org/sigart/ Another repository for artificial intelligence information. Figuring out how to make things think like us is similar to figuring out how to actually make us (with cloning and what not), its a little erie.

http://www.savingsandclone.com/

http://www.d-b.net/dti/ I didn1t even think that this was possible or legal. I didn1t think would even be considered for a long time. I found it interesting that this is actually becoming commonplace now or if it was just a joke site.

http://www.geneart.org/offerings.htm The painting by Frank Moore called Oz, 2000 was interesting on several levels. It told his story concerning how he contracted aids and then took an active part in science. The picture has many elements to it and was just curious to look at.

http://members.tripod.com/vismath7/proceedings/brodyk.htm This site is a paper that Andre Brodyk wrote dealing with genomic art. I actually got an idea of some of the reasons people are interested in this form of art and what catches people1s attention.

http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/gallery/gallery314/anker.html This is an interesting piece. In one way it is art and once you look at it long enough you see chromosomes and the DNA alphabet. I thought it was pretty how she combined art and science. 5+)

http://www.geneart.org/genome-toc.htm This site includes several genomic and science art examples. In addition there is a lot of reading that for the most part was interesting. This site has a lot of things that might be useful in trying to decide what approach to take to the project.

http://www.creativetime.org/dnaid/images/genetic_certificate-large.pdf I just found this amusing in that who ever thought you would have to copyright your own DNA, the essence to your personality?

http://www.henryart.org/gene-sis/home.html This is an advertisement for an art exhibit concerning genetic art. I liked seeing the images that scrolled across dealing with what was going to be displayed. I was amazed to see the diversity of the art projects there. I still am surprised that this topic is as popular as it is.

http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/ This site is not directly related to science and art. However, I decided to include it because I was trying to think of something I could do for the project that would include using Egyptian hieroglyphics to code for certain letters. It was just a thought.

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Gene_20Modification_20as_20Art This page is a forum for people on the internet to discuss gene modification as art. it is a good source for gauging public opinion/response to the manipulation of genes as a medium for art.

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/139/metascape.html The group metaScape interprets biologically themed material through music. The choice of instruments, tone and pitch all effect the artistry of the gene or protein being explored in the song. They range from dark to trance like and ambient.

http://www.rickguidotti.com/genome.htm Guidotti stays in his native media, photography, while exploring the impact of genetics on people suffering from genetic disorders. However, instead of capturing the genetic disorder on film, his images seem to downplay the genetic variation, to look more at the universal beauty of our human genome, sometimes skewed by, sometimes accentuated by the variation in our genes.

http://www.geneticalliance.org/geneticissues/discrimresources.html Art has a unique way of showing differences and similarities between people. The UN sponsored exhibit, "Art Against Racism" [http://www.un.org/WCAR/exhibit.htm], shows how powerful a statement art can make against discrimination. The movie GATTACA explored a new world where the dominating form of discrimination was no longer race or sex, but genetic. This site is a primer on where we stand on discrimination based on genetics.

http://www.lawgenecentre.org/ -- This is a center that focused on the legal an ethical issue with gene cloning and genetic engineering. It features articles like 3Banning of cloning human embryo in Kentucky2, and 3Selecting and transferring spider gene to cows to produce tough fibers from milk2. These ideas echo with Alexis Rockman1s artwork 3The Farm2 (2000).

http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/genechoice/index.html -- MOST INTERESTING -- An online book 3Your Genes, Your Choices2. Using some case studies or examples, the author tries to explain genetic concepts in the language of the general public. It also raises some ethical questions and possible implications associated with medical genetic researches. I really like the case studies idea, which make the genetic concepts more applicable to everyday1s lives.

http://www.geneart.org/genome-toc.htm -- Using works by artists introduced in our class as illustrations, including Alexis Rockman, Eduardo Kac, this is another online book that talks about the implications of genetic researches, but emphasizing on impacts on different areas of the society.

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/srtscot/genthpy1.htm#Manip ­ Questions about the implications of genetic engineering and germline/somatic cell gene therapy. These are from the point of view of the Church of Scotland, United Kingdom, a country that has banned germline gene therapy.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,36288,00.html ­ This is article about a Chicago Art Expo 2000, where an artist created a piece of work with two cryogenic sperm banks containing sex-selected sperm samples kept healthy by liquid nitrogen. Other artworks have similar topics as the Paradise Now exhibition. These artworks show how creative artists can be in terms of expressing their concerns about genetic researches.

http://www.henryart.org/gene-sis/new_works.html -- Essays and drawings exploring Human Genetics. The best part about this website is that the long accompanying texts explains or relates to the concepts expressed in the artworks in that page, which clarify the artists1 intentions a lot.

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html -- Online articles about the application of science to culture and everyday lives. Of particular interest is an article about an old but still existing Mormon belief that inbreeding will produce more elites (Which is in many cases, turn out to bring two rare recessive copies of the genes together and case genetic disorder).

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_cult/ -- Articles on the splitting and overlapping of the world of science and the world of culture. Also features some scientific articles that may link the two worlds together.

http://www.molecularmusic.com/musicoftheplants.htm -- Molecular music site featuring music created from the sequences, secondary and tertiary structures of plant proteins.

http://www.whozoo.org/mac/Music/Sources.htm -- Some very interesting research findings on molecular music, including the finding that converting the DNA sequences to music helped to make remembering and recognizing specific DNA patterns easier, and the proposal that the meaning of proteins and of music springs from a similar origin -- the repetition and elaboration of thematic sequences (Intersection of art and science). Most Interesting Site

http://www.intlplasticsurg.com/ -There is no other perfect combination of art and science in the field of medicine than plastic surgery. This is the ability of a surgeon who is a scientific doctor of medicine being able to reshape parts of the body to make them more pleasing for aesthetic purposes. Very interesting site Interesting Sites

http://www.cherrydelosreyes.com/future_index.html -A website to bridge the future of art and science. Linked off of a site designed by an artist who is a practicing physician also -Goal is to show a diverse group of artwork focused on being open

http://www.artscienceresearchlab.org/nav/who1f.htm -Very interesting website with the very specific goal of providing cross disciplinary research in art and science combined -Presenters attempt to make distinctions between cultural and scientific boundaries

http://www.science-art.com/Join/JTC_YAOL1.html -A link for artists to display artwork that is a cross with the sciences. Also shows medical-art.com which is a cross of medicine and art http://library.thinkquest.org/3257/principles.html#optics -In the 16001s and 17001s science focused greatly on the physics of life. This included optics, illusions, and scientific techniques. -This website is able to mix art from this period with scientific principles under investigation at the time

http://www.5points.com/exhibits/egleston/eglestoncolor.htm -A collaboration between scientists and artists to create new images -Art focuses on geometric images used in science combined with traditional medias to create art with a scientific twist

http://www.art-and-science.com/ -Can a scientist gain insight into research through a subjuctive expression of the mind? Can an artist be inspired by new technology from the sciences? These are questions that this website addresses. -Provided by L1Oreal makeup and cosmetic company as a way to provide health and beauty to the world

http://www.mathmuseum.org/Fractal.htm Most interesting ideas to me:

http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/~rinaldo/works/augmented/index.html This site displays how a fish could interact with its environment outside its fishbowl! I had never heard of such a thing or ever imagined something like this in my wildest dreams. I think it would be amazing to come home from a class and find my fishbowl in front of the television or sitting on my porch!

http://www.geneart.org/offerings.htm The work under the year 2000 by Eva Sutton entitled Hybrids is a really entertaining link. It opens to a window where you can change parts of the animal to create a hybrid. I enjoyed playing around with this site. It was crazy to see what new and strange animals could be made by substituting part of one animal for another.

http://www.henryart.org/gene-sis/artists_creativetime.html This site contains amusing paper cups that have been created poking fun at the whole concept of having a complete map of our DNA sequence. The cartoons printed on the cups are very amusing yet make you think about whether this is a good idea or not. Will we be able to soon design our own baby, or clone one another? Will we someday have to copyright our own genes to protect ourselves from being cloned? These thought provoking questions were raised through this simple comic matter.

http://www.asci.org/LSC~solar/fireflies.html This site has a really remarkable piece of artwork as décor, which could only have been possible by using scientific knowledge to create it. I think it is beautiful and so inventive! I have never seen anything like it before and would love to see it in person. It is even more impressive in person I would imagine.

http://asci.org/digital2000/Files/DigitalPrints/aklein.html I find the piece Dodecahedron - Universe / Divinity to be very appealing and creative. It reminds me of when I used to play connect the dots as a kid, only more complex. It is interesting to see a picture of something we see every night, the sky and stars, to be superimposed with this mathematical shape onto it.

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/genomics/0_home/index.html This is the description of an exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. The link Art Installation takes you to a site that shows how this one artist has contributed to the exhibit by making a video connecting the two fields, art and genetics. I was astounded to see that this topic was a major exhibit at this museum. It is incredible to see how popular of a subject this has become in the last few years as we learn more about the human genome.

http://www.asci.org/digital2001/sidal/sidal.htm This picture I added to this list because I honestly didn1t know exactly what to make of it. The fact that it has a highly secretive encoding reminds me the encoding of our DNA that is highly organized and complicated. The fact that the artist didn1t even see the original picture is curious as well. I thought it was unusual how I just stared at this picture for awhile, trying to figure it out with no success.

http://www.asci.org/digital2001/heller/heller.htm I originally thought that this was an attractive picture to look at even before I knew what it was. After I learned that it was different paths of electrons, I was intrigued. Since I am interested in chemistry I thought it was fascinating to read the passage and be able to follow the paths of these electrons in the picture. The second picture looked like waves to begin with and the bright colors make it a beautiful picture. It was remarkable how these pictures were created using science, yet look like art.

http://www.geneart.org/portraiture.htm This page shows several more examples of genomic art. However, the picture series The Garden of Delights consisting of the piece Robert, Kelly and Lydia by Inigo Manglano-Ovalle shows an artistic view of DNA. I am fascinated by the whole concept of DNA, and am impressed to see that common scientific based pictures from lab experiments can be turned into art. I had never seen such an exhibit before, nor knew that one even existed.

http://www.asci.org/digital2001/malin/malin.htm These computer altered pictures are just interesting to look at because it is an almost abstract way of looking at the pictures in my biology books. I recognized the pictures as skin and blood, yet there is something about the creative sense of the picture that makes it worth while to look at. I thought it was an interesting new way of viewing something that I am used to seeing in books.

http://www.nancyburson.com/ Artist whose major work is about how there's no gene for race.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/egg/205/burson/index.html Human Race machine. Most interesting ideas to me:

http://www.malepregnancy.com/# This website is unbelievable. I did not think that a male pregnancy was possible. However, when I looked more into the site, I began to believe that maybe this website is real because it was so scientific. There was coverage of a lot of information on this pregnant man. There were various pictures and articles on this story. However, even though the site does not say that this is a hoax. I've come to believe that it is because I went to Time and cnn.com to find the various articles, but they did not appear. I guess this is a form of art work that is truly amazing for a man to come up with this idea with complete detail. Could there be a time in the future when males can become pregnant? This is hard to believe, but I remember someone telling me that it would be impossible because males don't have the necessary organs. Interesting ideas:

http://www.genochoice.com/ This site was very interesting. This site may be true for the future to come. On this site, we are able to create a child by selecting various genes to create a unique child of our choice. With the new technology that we are coming up with these days, this site could actually be our reality. However, many questions arise. Is this way of making a child ethical? What is the perfect child? Perfection is in the eye of the beholder.

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0038/berwick.php We as different races are so similar in many ways. We share 99.9% of our genetic material and "there's no one gene for race." This link informs us about the Human Race Machine, which morphs a person into five different races: Asian, Caucasian, African, eastern Indian, and Latina. There's a picture of a woman who appears as five different races; however, the only thing that seems to change in each face is the hue. I thought that this link was amazing by the fact that the lady appears to be different races by just changing her hue. Our society tends to link race by the color of our skin.

http://www.ekac.org/blueyellow.html ~ glowing ball, outer space, "art," non-scientific, beautiful illumination of colors At first glance, this picture looks like an art representation of paint splats on a purple-colored circle. However, in actuality, the spots are fluorescent bacteria. The different colors are created due to their contact with each other. This picture draws the very question if science is art. I think this picture can be viewed as art because art has many forms.

http://www.potatoland.org/p-soup/ ~ interactive, art, the images move freely The effects are extremely impressive. With this art form, I have the ability to control the designs by adding more circles or lines and choosing the different colors. What interests me the most about this link is that everything occurs simultaneously until they individually end to give a final background design, which is different each time. In the very beginning, the scene is peaceful. As time passes and I interact with the features more, chaos occur. Once again, the scene is peaceful when the features are left alone. The overall design is different each time by small or large changes.

http://www.geneart.org/crockett.htm At the first look of the sculpture, it just looks like a mouse. The figure on this site is the oncomouse. The oncomouse is an example of transgenic, which is the "practice of transplanting genes from one species to another." I never knew that scientists have been performing such research: transgenic. With this new technology, scientists can further investigate the different effects on "human" systems without actually using human subjects. This way of research further helps humans, but doesn't this create mutated animals or specifically mutated mice?

http://www.superbad.com/ This website endlessly links me to different pages. However, I thought that it was fun to look at though. Everything I pressed continuously sent me to a different site. In the end, i'm always directed to one site, which has a yellow stop light figure in which the whole effect starts again when I press one of the lights. This art project can be categorized into interactive art. I was the one who controlled my own destination through the site. The art on the pages is constantly moving and is very unique and vivid. The randomness and unusual effects drew me to select it. It randomness correlates to the genes that we inherit from our parents.

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/genomics/0_home/lab.html This site informs us about a DNA Learning Lab at the American Museum of Natural History. At this lab, we are able to sequence our own DNA by using various machines and techniques that are used by researchers. I thought that this was a neat idea and resource in which people can learn more about themselves. The sequencing of the Human Genome Project has been deeply researched and interacted among scientist. This project simplifies the information to the level that the public can understand.

http://www.geneart.org/pages/current2.html ~ survival of the fittest, desiring perfection, self-curiosity This site rises many questions to why we have the initiative and motivation to decode the human genome. Decoding the human genome brings the ability to perfect our genes. We are capable of figuring out our flaws and fixing them in the near future, which goes back to Darwin's Theory, survival of the fittest.

http://www.criticalcrossings.org/pages/newid-p3.htm Helen Donis-Keller uses her own picture to produce the artwork entitled Helen Heads. The various flashing heads are all from the same picture; however, the different mediums used to express the visual pictures create images that vary. From this artwork, she explores the "possibilities of a genetically-inherited identity." This artwork is fascinating because it shows how something that is the same is so different by just changing one thing, in this case the medium, but the picture to create the images are identical. Most interesting ideas to me:

http://www.chemicalgraphics.com/paul/DNA.html#Outdoors This site was not the most artistic I have ever seen, BUT there were a few pieces that deserved credit for originalityI liked the "Rock Climbing" for example. But the "Mapped Word" I thought had a witty title as well as a subtle theme that we are all the same in the worldwe all have the same 4 bases in our genome. Interesting ideas:

http://www.geneculture.org/gallery/zoosemiotics.shtml There are a few interesting images on this site. My favorite was the Zoosemiotics one because it plays on the reverse copying that occurs during replication of DNAthe reflection in the water in reversed like RNA.

http://www.geneart.org/moore.htm I wound up at this site by accident. I read a description about how she got involved in genomic art she has a table herself it's interesting.

http://www.geneart.org/portraiture.htm This is really cool, but I'm not sure I get how he did it! This is a picture of Watson's (Watson and Crick) DNA. He apparently uses PCR and other imaging techniques to add a new perspective to his "portraits".

http://www.geneart.org/weare_geno.html Really interesting pictureI liked the whole "we're all the same theme". I think genomic art is one of the best ways to portray that. This also reminded me of the movie GATTACA where the character stretches his legs b/c his genetics didn't make him tall enough.

http://www.gattaca.com Just on case someone hasn't seen the movie I was talking about aboveit's really goodI recommend it especially if you're interested in this classit's all about how we're gonna use genetic technology in the future. I personally like the movie poster a lot!!!!!! very interestingjust in case you missed the subtle point GATTACA is only using the four bases of DNA ;)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1889119113/qid%3D1011160955/ref%3Dsr% 5F11%5F0%5F1/103-1954612-3241406 This is a book on human cloning that I am starting to read.it's the link to Amazon in case you're interestedfull title is "Ethical Issues in Human Cloning" by Michael C. Brannigan. I'll fill you guys in as I go through the book.

http://www.dnagallery.com/ I got fooled to think this was a genomic art website, but I was way wrong! turn out DNA here is the abbreviation for some groupBUT I thought the logo they chose was worth talking about it!! It is a fish of all animals the one we 'evolved' fromI thought it was an interesting notion.

http://watson.hgen.pitt.edu/humor/jokes.html GOOD OLD GENETICS JOKES! I like humorespecially when it can make boring subjects interesting.

http://www.d-b.net/dti/ Not quite "art" but I thought it's okay to put it at the endI hope the class can take a look at itinteresting idea Most interesting ideas to me: Medicine: Art or Science? An article displaying the roots of medicine and healing as an art; something one had a knack for. Contrasts to present day medicine as more structured, analytical, scientificSless creativity. Interesting to think as the broken human body as a white canvas, waiting for the inspiration of medicine to fill the void and heal its aches and diseases. Medication, herbs, vitamins, surgery ­ all are symbolic of individual paints, which add a different dimension to the portrait.

http://www.integrativemedicinetoday.com/article1001.html Interesting ideas: Series of evolution/mutations/genetic engineering as Art. Contains a couple different interesting ideas: The use of computer algorithims to create/manipulate a form of computer art, under the principles of genetics. Concepts of transgenic art: genetically engineering organisms/animals for purposes of beauty/art ­ in my opinionS very dangerous. There are to many things that we don1t know we don1t know.

http://arttech.about.com/library/weekly/aa031401f.htm DNA Electronics. A look into the physical properties of DNA to see if DNA would make a good conductor. This is nanoscale technology at its finest. The fact that scientists would even look at DNA in such a light (heavily mechanical and physical engineering) describes the extent at which human creativity extends. Manipulating atoms or DNA to create something from scratch: Nanotechnological Art.

http://www.aip.org/physnews/graphics/html/dnacanyon.html NanoArt. Different examples of art on the nanoscale: from an abacus using atoms as beads, to the world1s smallest guitar. Cool site.

http://arttech.about.com/library/bl_nanoart.htm Eduaro Kac. Individual with distinct views of the future of transgenic art. Ideas of dogs illuminated with fluorescence which would glow hair, as opposed to grow hair. Also talks about some previous genetic engineering examples I had forgotten about: antibodies and proteins in animals for human consumption; genetically isolated plants/animals and their propagation as a species for the benefit of man. Specifically, he mentions the mythological creature Chimera, which was supposed to represent the bridge of lion, goat, and serpent ­ these days we are starting to make our own "chimeras" of creatures with various genetic traits uncommon to their species.

http://www.ekac.org/transgenic.html Use of dietary/enhancement supplements to give people an edge. Idea #1: Dietary supplements are used to control diet, metabolism, athletic ability, appearance, mental capacity. This site happens to be an advertisement for 2extreme enhancement products, but I enjoy the idea of human beauty (our bodies as art) and the ways to manipulate/enhance them. Idea #2: I also liked the beginning statements and I quote, "Since we can't do anything about our genes, the two variables that are most likely to determine your athletic success in any sport are training and nutrition ." Ahhhh, soon to be a thought of the past. Soon, we will have unlocked the genetic predispositions to the ideal healthy and physically fit human traits, from muscle growth to height and so on. Genetic engineering will become a "pizza parlor" of life, with different toppings corresponding to different human traits.

http://www.galaxymall.com/health/increaseenergy/ Frank Moore: Painting of man on bed over ocean with DNA lighthouse in the distance. My interpretation: water creatures (drugs) have provided short-term solution to his problem of AIDS-teasing him. The real truth behind a cure is looming in the background; a beacon of light representing DNA strand-answer is in our genes.

http://www.geneart.org/offerings.htm Baby choice: A comical futuristic website of gene probes during pre-embryonic stages of life. Much like my thoughts above ­ making babies is more of an artistic touch than a human element of reproduction. What happens when we make the perfect baby, capable of withstanding any disease? Progression of human race into extinction: destroying all natural resources, overpopulating the world, destroying species, messing with genes which will create new "designer" epidemics.

http://www.genochoice.com/ Future Hospital: neat site of new medical technologies of far future. It displays the hospital as if it were here in the present. Neat idea of art: manipulating human life for commercial benefit ­ farfetched ideas; a farce on genetics.

http://www.rythospital.com/ Nancy Burson: A fascinating point on races: there is no gene for race. Wow. I had no idea. You would think that there is some underlying blueprint which identifies physical appearance and attributes. Maybe some kind of discovery will be found in the future underlining our miniscule differences.

http://www.rythospital.com/ Most interesting ideas to me:

http://goldennumber.net/index.htm This is my favorite link of the bunch because it shows how math is the basis for everything in nature. Fibonacci numbers occur everywhere in nature. Those numbers can be used to make the golden rectangle which can make the Fibonacci spiral which can be found in anything from sea shells to our DNA. Interesting ideas:

http://www.subvertise.org/theme.php?theme=GENETICS I thought the political commentary against genetic engineering of crops at this link was interesting.

http://www.artbyhunter.com/artgallery/artstatement.html Hunter draws a parallel between Art and Science. Scientists find order in nature, and Artist can communicate order in nature to the viewer. This is an interesting parallel.

http://www.dialectgallery.com/index.html This artist shows that although traits are mostly hereditary, unexplainable mutations can occur. This illustrates the vast mysteries of genetics.

http://www.geneart.org/genome-title.htm This link was an interesting assortment of political viewpoints of Genetics being used in society. I also liked how a Genetic art work complemented each interview.

http://www.geneart.org/offerings.htm This is a great collection of Genetic Art in the past few years.

http://www.geneart.org/ashbaugh.htm This artist makes paintings DNA Samples. He makes an interesting comment that questions "whether art is leading reality or reality is leading art."

http://www.geneart.org/borland.htm This work of art shows technology bringing another world alive.

http://www.geneart.org/burson.htm This work shows how the human race is 99.97% the same. The women have the same facial features, you only their color is different. Essentially we are all made of the same things.

http://www.geneart.org/crockett.htm In response to scientific research that gave a human immune system to a lab rat, this artist shows a mouse standing up with an almost human expression. Most interesting ideas to me:

http://www.worthpublishers.com/lehninger3d/index.html I was able to manipulate these biochem tutorials into even better artwork (than the DNA tutorial explained at the very bottom) because there is almost a rainbow of colors provided. The strands and ribbons options add an interesting aspect (even though they're a little unrealistic). Only a couple times I had molecules disappear off the screen but the "mistakes" I made were easy to correct. The names of the 9 tutorials/canvases sound complicated but an explanation of their scientific function is provided for anyone who wants to know. Interesting ideas:

http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/basic/gel/index.html This site shows how to make a gel electrophoresis chamber at home and provides a link to experiments to try. Running DNA down the gel gives a varying striped pattern, but I liked doing it better in high school because the agarose background was blue and the bands turned out dark blue. I always wondered if there are any other colors that could be used. With a few clicks is shown a way to prepare a food coloring/sucrose solution for the gel.

http://www.geneart.org/offerings.htm On the left side is an X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA from fifty years ago. Back then no one knew what DNA looked like. Rosalind Franklin made this image, and the shady cross pattern suggested to Watson and Crick that DNA was shaped like a double helix. However, she died soon afterwards and did not get a Nobel Prize because they are not given posthumously. Her work paved the way for all genetic research.

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~har/GeneticArt.html Make your own genetic art. A set of 16 blue fractals in a four-by-four grid is given to start. I could pick any shape and fine tune the stability and mutation from 0 to 100% and end up with a whole new set of shapes. The original shape stays the same so it is interesting to watch the other patterns "evolve" without worrying about the intricate details.

http://homepage.mac.com/gdudek/photos.html "The GA (Genetic Art) program uses an evolution-like process to incrementally improve a drawing. Your good taste plays the role of natural selection." By accepting or rejecting the computer's changes to your drawing, you alter the DNA and genes of your molecule. This program works on any Mac and uses a computer based LOGO language to be the evolution factor. >From what it looks like, these multicolor creations can be genetically altered at will. Gregory Dudek created this game for kids but soon adults got hooked. I might too. (This would have been my most interesting one except that I have to work through a few bugs of the game later.)

http://shachi.cochem2.tutkie.tut.ac.jp/Fuller/photo/take2.gif Mitsutaka Fujita's photograph of bamboo made into the shape of fullerene molecules by a Japanese artist. On the left is a tubule of some sort and on the right is one of my favorite molecules, the "soccer ball molecule" from chemistry class. Actually it is called C60, and when all 60 of its carbons are connected together, it forms the exact shape of a soccer ball. http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/activity/act701.html This "molecule man" reminded me a lot of the flower we got on the first day of class. I especially liked the shading and resolution. Each bump is supposed to be a different atom. Zeppenfeld and Eigler want you to learn that the atoms are smaller than a billionth of a meter each. I found this off a nanotechnology page and it is a simplified version of the very very small machines that could be going into our bodies someday.

http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Gallery also. I found two ideas but there are so many links here it is practically a search engine itself.)

http://www.artscatalyst.org/htm/atomic.htm James Acord probably seemed crazy when he went to the USSR to find out about their nuclear capabilitiesÝfor his art. He is the only person in the world who can privately own and handle radioactive materials, which he sculpts with. This page is just a starting point but I'm sure there is more on him somewhere.

http://www.art-tech.org/html/Exhibitions/ExhibitionsFrameSet.html In a not quite as scientific demonstration, you stand in a control room 2000 feet away from a hill. By pressing your fingers on the control panel, microcontrollers respond and send the pattern to a series of lights up the hill. This pattern gets expressed as orange lights on a much larger scale and can be changed as quickly as you can move your hand. I would like to see that in the dark.

http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/dna/index.htm Here is a way to explore DNA in all sorts of ways, including spinning, zooming, spacefilling, selecting certain colors (atoms), and even replicating. You can also simplify the structure by erasing or making it more abstract. This is similar to Rasmol, for anyone who has taken organic chemistry here. This tutorial is easier and it's possible to do a lot more on it. Most interesting ideas to me:

http://www.audiogenetics.com/ -- This company produces music by transforming the genetic blueprint of different herbs, or bio-messages, into 3gensong2, and claims that it may help the human body. I am shocked that they can make a business out of this. The idea of making songs out of DNA sequence is already fascinating; the concept of using DNA sequence of herbs that are beneficial to human impress me even more. Interesting ideas:

http://www.geneart.org/offerings.htm --The showcase of representative arts related to genetics in the past decades, with most art work from the recent 2-3 years. This is a good summary of the progress of arts in this area.

http://www.duerinck.com/results.html -- Using STR (Short Tandern Repeats) and other genetic concepts, the author tries to determine if his surname Duerinck is related to similar surnames like Durinck, Duering, and Dierick. This is a very funny way to utilize the genetic concepts.

http://www.algoart.com/dnamusic/ --Using genetic information of proteins to create music; pitch is determined by amino acid identity and instrumentation is chosen according to protein folding pattern. What an interesting concept, but the music itself will sound better without the voice saying 3Cysteine, Glutamine, etc.2

http://www.artbyhunter.com/artgallery/ -- Collection of abstract oil paintings by Hunter O1Reilly, both an artist and geneticist. Her artworks have a lot of subtle messages in them and I like the way the artist makes good use of colors.

http://www.ekac.org/gfpbunny.html -- An example of a piece of transgenic art, a rabbit mutated in such a way so that it can produce green fluorescent proteins on its albino skin. In the future, we may be able to produce rabbit of different color of fluorescent proteins.

http://www.dialectgallery.com/index.html -- Artworks with topics in genetics, from MaryAnn Miller. Most artworks are in crayons, and just by looking at the pictures, one can hardly find relevance to the titles. Her artworks are hard to grasp and comprehend.

http://www.davidson.edu/administrative/newsevnt/00.09artshow.html -- Include 3D-models of creatures, paintings and wood and steel craftwork representing concepts in DNA and proteins. The large scale artworks are very cool, something different from a flat painting.

http://www.nemeton.com/axis-mutatis/index2.html -- Some digital artworks depicting microorganisms, and also features some music related to those microorganisms. A very impressive concept.

http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Gallery/ -- Colorful digital images of microorganisms and some future medical challenges. They all look pretty real, but yet imaginative. Most interesting ideas to me:

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/srtscot/geneng2.htm I liked this link the best because it discusses the ethics behind transgenic animals and plants. I am most interested in creating a new kind of plant--particularly the rose. I want to learn how to get a transgenic rose for the blue pigment so that we can make blue roses. Also, I wanted to (if possible) create a rose bush that can bloom with a variety of colors instead of just one color. Interesting ideas:

http://www.scinetphotos.com/aaron.html I thought this was interesting, because we may consider Professor Cohen or the robot Aaron to be the artist. I would consider the robot to be a greater work of art than the paintings that the robot produces. This is similar to the case with the gorilla that learned how to paint. We can expand the realm of art when we put the creation of art into the hands of non-humans. I think it would be interesting if someone tied paint brushes or stamp rollers to mice and let them run around a canvas. One could even layout a maze-like boundary so mice could only paint in certain areas of the canvas.

http://www.rickguidotti.com/genome.htm I think it's wonderful for him to change from the usual models and cute babies and photograph people we usually don't consider pleasant to look at. His photographs are totally enjoyable to look at from the patient and audience's point of view. It shows a different view of the world, and that'swhat art should do.

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http://www.firstaidcafe.co.uk/EnterSite.asp PLEASE READ BELOW BEFORE YOU VISIT THE LINK!! This link has very gruesome images of people injured on the job, like images of crushed toes, hands burned by electricity, a person that got their nose bitten off by a dog, etc. If you don't want to see these things, then I wouldn't recommend looking at the page. Art isn't restricted to being beautiful. It can be moving by being horrible and monstrous. I think artists have a duty to capture reality.

http://www.geneart.org/offerings.htm I like seeing what other artists have done with science and art. Their work inspires me to come up with my own pieces of work.

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