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Harvesting The Net::MemoryFlesh
Harvesting the Net::MemoryFlesh will be a para-formative tracing of the
first year of the claimed completion of the Human Genome and
the rise of genetic economies. The tracing process
initiated by this harvesting will document, archive,
and refold the routes of this new economy. The
project will begin gathering net-based articles from
April 06, 2000 when Celera Genomics announced its
‘completion’ of the Human Genome, (a marketing date,
not a scientific one). Research and documentation
gathering will continue throughout the year and end on
April 06, 2001.
This para-formative harvest will be a process of
performing the system behavior of the networks
and software of Genetic Economies and manifest
itself in 5 steps. Harvesting the Net's end product
will be a series of visualizations as mirrors of our
‘memoryflesh’ where eventually, all cells will be
for sale.
Artist as Reflective Performance System
The act of behaving in a purposefully reduced and analytically
methodical manner is the result of immersion and successful
upload of subjectivity when facing the behemoth master that
is computer technology (the spine of the Internet). The act of performance
allows a position to reconsider a chosen set of
self-conscious, conceptual gestures in relation to this growing
behemoth. Through this process I can translate a format
of investigation and perform the system as it currently exists
upsetting the master-slave relationship that is generated
through technological distribution as we know it.
Step 1: Artist performs the system behavior.
Tracing companies, research initiatives, mainstream media hype, and attempts
to define the economic purpose of ourselves as Genome.
Step 2: Artist generates search strings and
system behaviors which begin the harvest. This stage of system harvesting
will be deposited into a database, the tissue of memoryflesh.
Step 3: Artist imposes a conceptual parsing
engine that reflects the intersections between network architecture and
genomic economies. Memoryflesh grafting continues.
Step 4: Artist reroutes developing archive
of material collected and begins to formulate a database generator of
genetic simulation, animating memoryflesh.
Step 5: Collaging and regenerating material mixed from the artist's
performative searches, artist's generated auto-bot searches, and parsing engine outlines to create a series of visualizations that will
parallel the process of building ourselves as Genome.
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