(Image: Paul McDevitt
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When art intimates life
IT CAN be nice when people believe science has inspired their art. Can be. Consider “intermedia” artist Adam Brown’s installation ReBioGeneSys, which he announces is “theoretically capable of forming the self-organizing chemistries necessary to produce semi-living molecules and perhaps even protocells”.
Brown had detected a flaw in an earlier work based on a primordial soup of chemicals: namely, there was nothing forcing these to do anything. So ReBioGeneSys is designed to “torture the chemicals within (by freezing…
