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May 15th

-We discussed two Claire Pentacost Readings-Beyond Face and Critical Inventory of BioArt .

-The gist of the Pentacost readings were that artists work with the symbolic and that the Artist's consent to work and learn in public is important.
-We also discussed the political and cultural implications of Scientific Authority.
-We also looked at Tuur Van Balen's Urban Geography project
-Most of the Ideas[see above] today, dealt with the use of bacteria as 
   -a) A sensor or Reactor - (to Inputs,emotions,light..etc)
    -b) A Producer (of energy, proteins..etc)
     -c) A Material

-Is there Any way in which we can look at Bacteria from a purely non-symbiotic / non-anthropomorphic viewpoint? -Can we use our technological "progress" to give a non-selfish gift back to our ecological siblings?

-Replace financial transactions with Bacteria

May 16th

Here's some creatures we created using techno-scientific jargon and aesthetics:


Today's reading was called Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture's Generation by Donna Haraway.

-The article is primarily a review of the Australian artist Patricia Piccinini's work and a recapitulation of Haraway's philosophies .

-One of the things enduring about the reading was her appeal to "love" our creations, not in a tech.no- phillic sense but in a more nurturing and caring way.

May 17th

Hybrid Creatures From Mythology: Gallery

May 19th

We spent the day in NCBS picking up some standard biological techniques-Gel electrophoresis And looking at some of the microscopy equipment at NCBS.


Some Images Of Our Day

Non-categorised images here

May 21st

We put down all the information that we had about learnt about geosmin. We then put down the various paths we could take in order to produce the results we wanted. This exercise cleared certain doubts we had, but also raised a lot of questions.

First Prototype of the Bacteria

May 22nd

Today's Reading:

Some basics of Gene Expression and production of Proteins and Enzymes by Genes

May 25th

Presentation ideas- Bollywood sculpture?


How to read a scientific Paper by Mukund

1) Scan through the entire article quickly and find out what they are saying or trying to say.

2) Do not get lost in the references beyond 2 layers


How to create a gel electrophoresis chamber:

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Today's Reading:

A synthetic Oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators


May 27th

http://openwetware.org/wiki/DIYbio:Notebook/Open_Gel_Box_2.0/RFC1

http://umassigem.blogspot.com/

http://diybio.org/2009/03/20/extract-dna-from-strawberries/


May 28th

Bio-Sculptures:

Avni's 'Chicken in a Kaleidoscope'

Neha's From a Spider


Sandeep's Mustard seeds

May 29th