ABSTRACT
The author, an artist who works in emerging media forms. His artwork addresses complex issues raised by new techno-sciences such as how they enter into existing social structures using these very techno-sciences as a medium. He utilises emerging technologies that have been isolated in their communicative potential and through creative re-use, mis-use and/or even ab-use turn them into communicative media forms. Recently, author has sought to force the arcane codes of scientific communication into a broader cultural language. The 'Latent Figure Protocol' utilises DNA sequencing technologies to create recognisable images and icons not simply images of a sequence of DNA in a gel, but rather highly controlled images that are created with actual DNA in an imaging gel. The project uses DNA technologies differently than in typical lab work as he believe that artists working in emerging technologies should go beyond use of only pre-existing techniques and creatively 'hack' in the domain.
