#transgenicart

[machineinghost]

Interconnect, study, mixed media, 10 x 10 in.

[artstraction-blog]

The synthesized translation of a Bible quote is shown above, aptly named Genesis. The key element of the work is an "artist's gene", a synthetic gene that was created by Kac by translating a sentence from the biblical book of Genesis into Morse Code, and converting the Morse Code into DNA base pairs according to a conversion principle specially developed by the artist for this work. By equating two usually opposing forces, science and religion, Kac deals with the ideas of two belief systems and what it really means to believe in anything.