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so far I haven't diagnosed myself or
been diagnosed with
Psychopathology creativity by itself is
not
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normal I could be your imaginary
friend my name is Joe Davis and uh I'm
officially designated as artist
scientist at George Church's Lab at
Harvard Medical School in Harvard
genetics he is a very creative
interdisciplinary scientist pretending
to be an artist a lot of what passes for
True science is quite incremental and
doesn't really change things Joe on the
other hand is more likely to contribute
to transformative science then that's
that's what my lab is all about as new
tools and new knowledge become available
in the world of science and technology
they also become available to art
there criticisms where Joe Davis thinks
the laboratory is a playground well yes
I think the laboratory is a playground
it's
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amazing these are my DNA prayer Flags
this is a horn coral this is a crystal
radio and of course jois special release
primordial
soup I have have no scientific
credential whatsoever I like to put
these to create these situations where
the two opposite so-called opposites are
merged in such a way that they can't be
discriminated that that is the greatest
thrill of all you know that's the great
unification of
knowledge we recently realized this
threeyear project to get silk Moss to
spin silk that could metalize with
metallic gold Maro casan I created the
first biom Metalized Sil in the last
several weeks you know creativity is the
ability to put things together in new
ways these same materials can be used to
take up heavy metals from contaminated
groundwaters at terrible sites like
Fukushima art helps science understand
itself so why don't people feed
artists why don't they feed artists the
way they feed scientists
I hope that
um by my example Society not just
science or realize the value of
what people like me can do and that
eventually they will be paid to do these
things they certainly deserve to be paid
to do these things but somebody has to
show them the
way and um if nobody does then they'll
never get paid so here we go you got
five
bucks in this dictionary it says art is
human effort to imitate supplement alter
or counteract the work of nature Joe may
or may not deliver the ideas directly
but he causes us to think differently
over the last 25 years I invented
various DNA programming languages to
allow me to insert information into
organisms that's not biological
information but rather human
intellectual
information this suggests a world in
which the whole terrestrial biome is the
message
board techniques for improving the
information handling capacity of DNA are
right now being created with the
potential to replace the
internet ideally we could put all this
information into everything that's
around us everything could be
there and could never be burned art has
always been involved with this struggle
against the harsh forces of nature to
hold on to the Legacy and the dreams of
culture I think most of the problems
that Humanity has these
days is that
we we're all expected to do just one
thing we go to work one way on the way
to work we go the same way to work every
day we sit in the same cubicle or the
same office and do the same thing day in
and day out I have great adventures you
only have one chance in this world to
make it a better place and often that
involves a great adventure without them
life would probably be basically
unbearable you see that light yeah
that's the Spectra of a g type
star what's that it's a incredible
thermonuclear reaction with the enormous
violence that's going on at this minute
93 million miles away and how does that
make you
feel
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alive in your life you got to have time
for work and you have to have time for
life you can't
have only work and you can't have only
life because this either way it's
self-destructive you have to stop on
both sides and make time for the other
land of crond i b ye
fairwell we're bound out for green land
and ready to sail in hopes to find
riches and
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hunting
for