Manchester’s DNA: workshop for International Mother Language Day 2021
Category: Visualising DNA
The Human Genome in the Library
In ‘The Library of Babel’ (1941), Jorge Luis Borges imagines a vast library that contains ‘no two identical books’.[1] Instead, the library contains all books that might be printed using 22 characters plus the comma and the period: ‘each shelf contains thirty-five...
DNA Art
How do we visualize DNA? How might we ‘see’ it? How is this ‘thing’ materialized in the imagination, conceived of, constructed? I wrote about some ways of modelling it in another blog, but recently I’ve been thinking more about aesthetic representations. The last time...
Seeing DNA, and seeing Rosalind Franklin
Much of this project looks at how people visualise DNA. In the main this means the ways that consumers of DNA testing might conceive of themselves in relation to a ‘model’ or structure of a double-helix. So I’m really interested, for instance, in the phenomenon of...
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