Landscape Painting for Beginners: DNA Information-Keeping and Nonlinear Encoding

Can we create a map of the world that coincides with the world itself? Artist-Scientist Joe Davis of Harvard Medical School, a pioneer of genetic art and biological archiving, considers the possibilities at a free, public lecture at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). The lecture is in Speck Auditorium, Rowe Laboratory, 10 MBL Street, Woods Hole. Limited on-street parking is available.

This event, will be live-streamed; the link is below:

https://mbl.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8783f2d7-31ef-423d-acda-b16b0112a031

Joe Davis is an Artist-Scientist in the George Church laboratory at Harvard Medical School, a position he has held since 2010. His pioneering projects involving “DNA programming languages” for inserting poetic texts and graphics into DNA have frequently been cited in the scientific literature and include “Microvenus,” the first genetically engineered work of art (1986).

More about the event is here: https://www.mbl.edu/events?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D174705543