to be made between genomics and genetics, incidentally, that I neglected to make yesterday when I linked to the Wired piece. It was pretty sloppy of me to have done so, because several years ago I made that mistake out of ignorance and studied it enough to learn the distinction. Which I’m not going to get into here. But that sloppiness on my part doesn’t mitigate against the fact that artists are, or can be, probes dealing with issues that are forthcoming. This doesn’t happen in a specific way but in terms of general principles. Which I’m sure galls many scientists to no end. But the ethics and philosophical principles underlying science are as important as the scientific work itself. And that’s what artists are about, in their often quirky, confrontational way.
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