From Biotechnology towards Synthetic Engineering #ArteMasCiencia

"Plasmids are the workhorses of molecular biology. Plasmids are small, circular DNA molecules that replicate independently of the chromosomes in the microorganisms that harbor them. Plasmids are o en referred to as vectors, because they can be used to transfer foreign DNA into a cell." [source]

Paul Vanoise, Ocular Revision [source]

"Ocular Revision is an artwork incorporating an alternate mechanism for the analysis and display of the DNA image. Typically, DNA is visualized in a rectangular chamber containing a porous gelatin that has an electrical field across it. When DNA is inserted into one side of this gelatin the electrical current pulls it across the gel at a rate corresponding to its molecular mass and thus differentiates DNA of different sizes.

Ocular Revision uses a custom, experimental, circular gel electrophoresis rig to visualize DNA bands. I designed this circular rig to be polarized from inside to outside of the circle. The radial design and inside-out polarization allows the apparatus to create DNA images reminiscent not of a “barchart” or a “progress bar” on a computer screen, but rather a slow emergence; a signal; a flowering; an attraction or repulsion."