Genesis

Life at the End of the Information Age

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Edited by curator Emilie Gomart
Published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition at Centraal Museum, Utrecht (14 April - 12 August 2007) Year: 2007
104 pages in color, softcover
Language: English
Authors: Arie Altena, Marianne Boenink, Nik Brown, Soraya de Chadarevian, Jo Coucke, Iris Dik, Driessens & Verstappen, George Gessert, Emilie Gomart, Christine Heidemann, Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe, Michael Lynch, Annemarie Mol, Marta de Menezes, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Sahota Sarkar, Sommerer & Mignonneau, Luc Steels, John Tresch, Astrid Visser, Cor van der Weele, Linda Weintraub.

The 20th century was the age of information. Since the arrival of the computer in the 1950s it seems that even life itself has become ‘information’ given that it consists of genes, bits and sequences of symbols. Genesis examines how – in unexpected ways -- the ‘information metaphor’ returns in the same form in both art and science. With exhibits drawn from the visual arts and from science, the exhibition explores the different interpretations and the limits of the information metaphor. Can life itself be translated into a computer code? Can a computer program come to life and even create art?

Read Adam Lowe's text Moulding wet materials into Replicas of themselves here.

Learn more about the exhibition through Centraal Museum, Utrecht here.

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