I'm forwarding a project that my cousin is doing, please read, participate, forward, etc....
cheers *************************** BIBIANA PADILLA MALTOS AVTEXTPRESS *Call to All* Seritypes: A Genetic Screening Project Send an email, an attached image, a little DNA: We deny race, gender, borders and the construct of "other," a key mechanism in the dehumanization of the Oppressed and the Oppressor. We affirm the fundamental parity of all individuals. http://www.art.wisc.edu/sgc2006/Pages/demos-seritypes.html explains (and please see below) the 24-hour "procedure" that our team will be conducting in Madison WI, April 8-9 (tentative), 2006, and we'd like you to act as a remote hub (or participant in Madison if you're in the area). If you visit the No Hate Page (http://billfisher.dreamhost.com/nohate.html) and scroll to the bottom, "Re-Present" is a past project that uses a similar strategy and methodology. Along with sending imagery and text via email during the project (10 minutes of your time or as much as 24 hours of participation), we may ask for your spit (swab, cigarette butt, chewed gum, or a licked and sealed envelope), a fingerprint or face image, and for you to collect a similar sample from friends, colleagues, family, and strangers, or encourage their direct participation. Your genetic material will be rendered and mixed with printing inks and we'll go from there in the 24-hour coded and sequenced production of silkscreen prints. Other imagery may be up- and downloaded from a central site by all members of the network throughout the duration of the project. Please contact Bill Fisher at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if this is something you'd like to work on. It would be great to have your participation in this affirmation of shared, borderless identity. More info to follow... Bill Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://billfisher.dreamhost.com 2006 Southern Graphics Council Conference Proposal April 5-9, 2006 Project Title Seritypes: A Genetic Screening Project Project Authors Jeff Drye, Bill Fisher, Richard Lou, Danielle Wyckoff, the Arts faculty of Georgia College & State University and International Participants Project Proposal "A chromosome's structure may change on rare occasions. A segment may be deleted, inverted, moved to a new location, or duplicated. . .Crossing over and changes in chromosome number or in a chromosome's structure may influence the course of evolution. The changes in genotype (genetic make-up) lead to variations in phenotype (observable traits) among members of a population, so that evolution is possible." Cecie Starr and Ralph Taggart, 1995. A team of printmakers will transform the serigraphy studio at the University of Wisconsin into a genetic research laboratory/operating theatre, complete with lab coats, face masks, rubber gloves, research stations, etc. Conference attendees as well as national and international participants will be solicited to submit DNA samples (through cell scrapings e.g.) which will then be combined with acrylic screen inks for creating works on paper during a 24-hour "procedure." A database of imagery will also be uploaded/downloaded during this period by all participants. In Madison, this imagery and the subsequent screens will be coded (as chemical proteins), treated as raw genetic material and parceled out in discrete, Mendelian units. Combining and printing these different genotypes will lead to variations in phenotypes (the final observable expression of independent inheritance), and through deleting, inverting, moving, and duplicating, change will be affected in this "genetic" expression, allowing for the evolution of the printed image to occur. Others in the participant network will be accessing the shared online genetic (imagery) database to create work at their own hub-location. The work which evolves over this 24-hour period will be a population without borders, authorless and of shared ownership. We hope to illustrate a process in which identity will be defined through our physically shared, inextricable commonality rather than through constructed (and divisive) geopolitical, social, religious, racial, and gender-based ideologies. Our Madison research team will also raffle off Genographic Project kits (https://www5.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/participate.html), another worldwide project with potentially beneficial implications.
