This Wired News article describes a new installation by Eduardo Kac at the Exploratorium in San Francisco: DNA Spirals Into Artists’ Medium.

Short description of the piece, Move 36: A genetically-modified tomato plant planted on a chess board with a couple of video projections.

Personally, I don’t see how his work is interesting and evidently the art world doesn’t either as he’s showing at a science museum. Remember kids, we don’t want New Media art showing up in science museums!

Then there is this strange section of the article: Kac said the plant is rooted in the square where Deep Blue made the move that flummoxed Kasparov, but it’s actually on a different square, and the board is not oriented correctly. The article doesn’t explain if these are mistakes by the artist or somehow related to the content of the piece. permanent link to this post