Genetec by Stanza.

This is an articulating DNA structure, a genetic sculpture telematically controlled from the internet using a special interface. This is an articulated networked sculpture/stucture which responds to unique user input data. The work uses specialised materials and display technologies that have been adapted to create this work.

I aim to create a building whose construction is based on your genetic identity. A space where the invisible manifests in 3D form. Genetic information will provide the basis for this organic system, a responsive data - networked real environment. The architecture of the system is responsive to your dna it is responsive to you , you become embedded in the DATA flow itself; you will be the system. The user, as DNA, becomes the image, the system , the sculpture, the space. The user is the interface to him/herself.

Using DNA input data to control the unique responsive environment. This information is translated into 3d emergent systems thereby creating a personalised dna large scale sculpture. The purpose is to understand how personalised data from across the internet can be mediated and affect the environment around us.

I have already made online protoypes using my own DNA data and 3d visual mappings, these are presented as a generative emergent sequence. Small scale prototypes of these evoke the work and are used as a basis to develop anarticulated work using responsive materials.

Once built we will see a space with unique patterns and shapes, that move around as you move around, that are based on your dna, that have been input into the online system. These shapes will be changed via motion and sensor control. The sensor ie, camera tracking position control, temperature control will mediate the flow of data output onto the displays. The work focuses the merging of the human interface with new architectural philosophies, networked intelligent data and new materiality.

To date, I have researched the process of DNA profiling, also to explored and research potential materials and technologies and extend working relationships with key partners. By using my DNA data to create a responsive 3 d environment I am dealing with the aesthetic interpretations of the data and how to both understand and assimilate this data into a responsive space.

The work is an articulated, responsive structure controlled via an internet interface from collected dna input data. To engage with this work the user must participate in a number of ways, not only as a passive observer but also as an active 'creative user'. The user is directly related to the shifting audio visual language that moves only when the user moves and shifts with the works. The choices are made by the user, but clearly the aesthetics are defined by me, the artist. The use of specific types of sounds, colours, patterns and lines are all defined parameters within each work. Only by engaging with the work do you determines what you will see. Within the genomixer interactive works, each user thus creates their own artwork, and more importantly the artwork becomes increasingly co-dependent on the user and their input or interaction.

I have already established links and partnerships with UCL, and also Vector Foiltec Architecture, who will enable this research. A number of specific DNA tests have been carried out for me by scientist Mandy Fisher at Hammersmith Hospital, and these tests have given me my own DNA data to begin work with.

I have already used my DNA data to make some protoypes of these virtual artworks and these will form the basis for a constructed space that I will make in collaboration with Vector Architecture. To do this I will be exploring the potential with their 'EFTE' texlon cladding in conjunction with sensors and micro electronics. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop this and how these might be used in the public domain.

The result will see a space with unique patterns and shapes that move around as you move around that are based on your data. These shapes will/can be changed via motion and sensor control. The sensors can be camera tracking, position control, temperature control, will all mediate the flow of data outputs to the displays. The work focuses the merging of new architectural philosophies, networked intelligent data and new materiality.


See www.genomixer.com for my work to support this. As you can see from this site there area number of works (all audio visual interactive works) that support this idea of making a real space. These represent prototypes and research into the making of this new project.

And see. www.vector-foiltec.com and the buildings they have made using this type of materiality.

"This work as an exploration of the human body represented by data within space. The proposed work explores the artistic and technical opportunities in the in the merging of these areas. This work develops the understanding and enhancement of real and virtual space as intelligent responsive environments. It also enables new aesthetic perspectives, experiences and perceptions within architectural / data spaces.

3d dna prototype

stanza@sublime.net
www.stanza.co.uk