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Here is the link to my midterm project: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3noUUO6X7m8RGxEWEh0MXFGLUE/view?usp=sharing

Week 6: BioTech + Art The first thing that comes to mind when I think of biotechnology is genetically modified food. I am personally pro-GM crops and food; however, this is a very controversial topic in today’s society. Genetically modified crops have the potential to increase yields and help with world hunger, increase the nutritional value of crops through crops such as Golden Rice, and decrease the use of pesticides by inserting a pesticide resistance gene directly into the crops. Many people have argued against these benefits saying that by inserting an herbicide or pesticide resistance gene into the crops, this will lead to super-bugs and super-weeds. There are countless studies that supporting GMOs and many others arguing against GMOs, showing how controversial genetic modification can be. There is always a lot of controversy surrounding the alteration of an organism’s genome. Perhaps one of the most controversial example of biotech and art is Eduardo Kac’s fluorescent b...

For my second event I attended Elí Joteva’s graduate solo show. This was an exhibition that featured three cryo sculptures and a dream wave portrait. To create the dream wave portrait, Elí explained that she had someone sleep next to a bowl of water, she froze that water, and she scanned the person’s brain waves as they recalled their dreams. She then she used color to represent those waves based on their frequencies and projected those on the frozen ice. This visual is meant to represent the connection between the memories that people have and the past, present, and future. Elí's dream wave portrait. The frozen sculptures that were on display were meant to represent the evolution from present to future through observing how the balls evolve and change as they melt. I attended the exhibition on the first day it opened and the balls were still really frozen at that point. A couple of them were still frosted over because of how frozen they were, so it was difficult to se...