But really it is Christian Bok and his attempt to put his (art) work within a sequence on DNA. His blog is his journey to make it happen, working with Technology to bring his poetry to life.
"I am, in effect, engineering a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem—" Christian Bok
Read all about it on his Blog: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/04/the-xenotext-works/
Although he isn't the first person to bring poetry to life using technology his perspective very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI like how you brought up Victor Fankenstein in your introduction. This is a very intriguing lead-in.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing is...I am not entirely sure that it's his blog. It looks like it might be a feature on him on another blog.
Either way, great find!