original template mutation 5 mutation 6

Year: 2017/19

Material: synthetic DNA, digital images, binary translation

Courtesy: the artist

Experiments were done during the project Semiotics of the Laboratory at Ars Electronica 2017, together with Špela Petrič, Miha Turšič, Slavko Glamočanin and Roland van Dierendonck, using the same methods as in the experiments from the work "Mutants from Innerspace" from 2008.

Günter Seyfried

An Austrian artist, who lives and works in Vienna. He has a background in medicine and psychology, which he studied at the University of Vienna, and has strong links to the fine arts, digital art, and media art, having graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Department of Digital Art). He is teaching at the New Design University in St. Pölten, Department of Manual and Material Culture. He combines science and art education and develops projects as an independent artist, participating in national and international exhibitions and publications. He is a founding member of pavillon_35 — Gesellschaft für wissenschaftsbasierte Kunst.

Contact info

http://www.polycinease.com/mutants-from-innerspace/

https://www.aec.at/ai/en/semiotics-of-the-laboratory/