wfw weekend #418

wfw weekend #417

If I can’t sleep at night is it because I am awake in someone else’s room?_ a final performance inside a hotel room _ Friday, July 28, 2017, 9 pm to 11 pm at Hotel Zoo Berlin

Katinka Bock. _o_o__o

Yung Chong BaDboI for We Find Wildness #2

one pic friday. Michael E. Smith

Louise Lawler. Prominence Given, Authority Taken

DNA is an excellent medium for archiving data. Recent efforts have illustrated the potential for information storage in DNA using synthesized oligonucleotides assembled in vitro. A relatively unexplored avenue of information storage in DNA is the ability to write information into the genome of a living cell by the addition of nucleotides over time. (…) Here we use the CRISPR–Cas system to encode the pixel values of black and white images and a short movie into the genomes of a population of living bacteria. – CRISPR–Cas encoding of a digital movie into the genomes of a population of living bacteria, Shipman, S. L., Nivala, J., Macklis, J. D. & Church, G. M. Nature, July 12, 2017

Reena Spaulings. Her And No

It’s interesting, for instance, how charcoal becomes trendy today in organic and well-being food, even if it’s been fucking up generations of miner’s lungs. Some use it as a natural way to ease stomach pain and bad digestion. I prefer its vomiting effects: it’s used as an emergency treatment for certain kinds of severe poisoning and OD’s. I like that it’s presented here in the shape of a large, family-size bread we could eat of all together, while expelling all the possible mad-driving toxins. The idea of letting go, of fluidity, of opening the valves, a joyful communal diarrhea prompted me to ask the baker how we could form a sort of orifice in the bread. He folded his arm and pushed his elbow far in the middle of the fresh dough. – The Future of Not Working, Aline Bouvy in conversation with Louise Osieka, June 5, 2017

one pic monday. Richard Prince

wfw weekend #416

wfw weekend #415

Robert Grosvenor at Maccarone, Los Angeles

one pic wednesday. Jiří Kovanda