On May 26th I attended the Replica Praesens: A Lecture on Synthetic Life by Sam Wolk, in Broad Art Center. I enjoyed this lecture because visually seeing life activity represented on the screen was really interesting. The third picture represented different color grids intensities that indicate concentrations of nutrients. He used a strip of DNA for a plant that sprouted, and each cell represents a given value for the plant. Wolk was saying that with the replication now they can define a whole species and create a population of diverse creatures from that species, given the values from plant DNA. For the second to last picture, species template, we can see an entire strip of plant DNA and the red dots are the plants waiting to sprout. This lecture was visually appealing, as I am a visual learner. Normally I kind of see these things as absurd, like I do not take the time to explore them. But this on the other hand was very interesting and I genuinely enjoyed my hour. This event was cool in the sense of reading into the slides and being able to discuss the entire live of plants & animals. Definitely a new field, that I might look into.
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