Voices of Meltingpot | Joe Davis
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- čas přidán 4. 02. 2020
- Joe Davis (USA)
Leader in Bioart practice, member of MIT research, controversial scientist and charismatic artist
„Creativity is ability to put things together in new ways.“
No need to search for the garden of Eden. There is an extraordinary artist who used science to create a literal tree of knowledge by encoding 50,000 pages of the English Wikipedia into the apple tree genome. It was he again who taught E.coli bacteria to listen to music. His work develops a unique synergy of science and arts, shifting both disciplines into new contexts. The face of the „Bioart“ movement belongs to Joe Davis.
One of the pioneers of Biomedia is considered not only a controversial figure of modern biology but also one of the most remarkable artists of his generation, never separating scientific research from art. Joe Davis is a research affiliate at the Department of Biology at MIT and the George Church Laboratory at Harvard Medical School. His work attempts to overcome the limits of human knowledge - it is a constant curious effort to understand our place in the universe. Joe is based in the fields of molecular biology, bioinformatics, "space art" and sculpture, using media such as centrifuges, radios, prosthetics, magnetic fields, and genetic material.
While none of his projects could be called ordinary...some of them stand out as particularly ambitious: Call me Ishmel, a 110-foot lightning tower in memoriam for Hurricane Katrina, or Bacterial Radio, a crystal radio system that uses a protein derived from marine sponges to create an electrical circuit capable of receiving AM radio transmissions. Thanks to its technical sophistication and
sustainability, Bacterial Radio was awarded the 2012 Ars Electronica Golden Nica in Hybrid Art. Joe Davis‘ life and career have been captured in the movie Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis. - Věda a technologie
This is absolutely correct. Everything is connected. Knowledge is also transmissable. The understanding of the human world is just an integral part of fathoming things that are seemingly unrelated.
It's strange that there are so few views here. Great wisdom is seen in the eyes of a great man. He brings to our world the light of knowledge. There is not so many of such people. I know another such person, this is Slava Polunin, and it is an interesting coincidence that they say similar things, but even outwardly they are similar.
Thank you , really thank you for this video!
Absolutely brilliant!
Thanks Joe! 👍❤️🤗
I've had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Davis and every interview wildly understates just how smart this man is. He's from another world. I mean, I would literally not be shocked should he actually reveal he's actually an alien. That would feel more likely than a human being born with his kind of mind.
what a nerd. Awesome Joe Davis!!!
I LOVE BIOART.
JOE MAMA