Artist Beverly St. Clair uses quilts to encode genetic information: it's beautiful and comfy!
St. Clair uses quilts to encode genetic information: it's beautiful and comfy!
Cory Doctorow's Cambridge Business Lecture, given 22nd July, 2008
My idea for genome quilts grew from the juxtaposition of two experiences at Wesleyan University in November 2001. First I viewed an exhibit of work by Anni Albers, an artist I have admired for many years. The show included her serigraphs of triangles arranged in a grid. I was struck by their similarity to quilt patterns. The next day I attended a lecture about the Human Genome and Thousand Genome projects to the Internet Archive. The issue is on stands now and also available free online. Yesterday, I popped into Nature's offices in London and recorded a video of myself singing "I love the blogosphere" for a friend who's making her own version). I'm meeting Randall "XKCD" Munroe for the first time around, many of you asked for a transcript. Many thanks to Greg for this yeoman service!
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