A talk by CLAPPERTON CHAKANETSA MAVHUNGA Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga is associate professor of science, technology, and society at MIT and visiting associate professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Professor Mavhunga’s work engages the meanings of science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship from Africa in the long historical context, and their implications on how …
Let’s start with the basic review: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioArt Browse Eduardo Kac’s thought–provoking projects at http://www.ekac.org/transgenicindex.html With the famous Alba, the fluorescent bunny. http://www.ekac.org/gfpbunny.html And Natural History of the Enigma, transgenic flower with artist’s own DNA expressed in the red veins, 2003/2008. Collection Weisman Art Museum. http://www.ekac.org/nat.hist.enig.html Making people think about synthetic biology, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg …