We are very honored and excited to have Joe Davis give us an online talk about his latest works and amazing ideas.

About Joe

Joe Davis is currently Artist/Scientist at the George Church Lab at Harvard, he is also one of the most influential and exciting artists working with Art & Biology. He works include sending messages to the stars, fishing for bacteria, saving the world by sending messages through black holes to the past. He is also the star of documentary "Heaven+Earth+Joe Davis".

About the Talk

"In 1946, the Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges published a one-paragraph short story about a map of the world that coincided with the world itself. Borges concluded that such a map would be useless to the science of geography. It turns out that we might now in fact have an opportunity to make maps that coincide with the world, and they may not be so useless after all. The tragedy of history is that it is a record of much more loss than content.Despite more than 100,000 years of accumulated knowledge, we have forgotten, destroyed, or abandoned more than humanity can ever remember. But there’s another side to history too, an abiding sense of wonder, something that has always whispered to us about what we might become. There is a part of us that insists on projecting our hopes and fears, the fundamentals of our own particular nature into the unknown. This project is about a new kind of library, one that may just help to defeat the tragedy of history, and where “truth” has been the first word saved."

• The talk will be held online at https://zoom.bioclub.tokyo
• Language: English
• Particiaption is Free

For Angewandte INTRA/BioLudics Projects & BioClub Tokyo

/Georg Tremmel