for Hans Arp Awkward grammar appals a craftsman. A Dada bard as daft as Tzara damns stagnant art and scrawls an alpha (a slapdash arc and a backward zag) that mars all stanzas and jams all ballads (what a scandal). A madcap vandal crafts a small black ankh -- a hand-stamp that can stamp a wax pad and at last plant a mark that sparks an ars magna...Learn More

1. Introduction Thinkers as diverse as Pak Wong, a cybernetic expert, Eduardo Kac, a multimedia artist, and Paul Davies, an astronomic expert, have begun to speculate that even now scientists might store data by encoding textual information into genetic nucleotides, thereby creating “messages” made from DNA – messages that we can then implant,...Learn More