Space Invaders n. pl. A nickname given to the transposons responsible for injecting reptilian and amphibian DNA into mammalian genomes 15 to 46 million years ago. We have good reason to dread the return of the virus-borne gene reprogrammers—their first appearance coincided with mass extinctions.”


conceptual work


“…we want to introduce Conditional Design as a term that refers to our approach rather than our chosen media. We conduct our activities using the methods of philosophers, engineers, inventors and mystics.”


1996
Metal switch, wig tape

‘The switch was worn day and night for close to a month.’



“More than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity.
I need it more than I need lamb or pork or lettuce or cucumber.
I need it for my dreams.”

Racter (an AI program that produced poetic prose) The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed. 1983


The nature caused by human culture.

“There may even come a moment that our connection with an industrially manufactured coke bottle may be richer and more mythical than our relation with a genetically analyzed and manipulated rabbit in the woods. “

Post Modern Time


“How do the problems of information transfer relate to the human perception and use of signs?
What are the connections between information theory and semiotics in the origin of culture?”

Mouse on Mars

“One must free oneself from one’s ideas in writing, not take charge of them. One must free language from its purpose, free concepts from their meaning, free the world from its reality — which is an even greater illusion.”

Jean Baudrillard, Fragments, Verso Radical Thinkers edition, London, 2007, p. 50





Chimera: these sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells