Gene.coop

Gregor Tatschl — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 06:44:12 +0000

Waag Society (NL)

Recent decades have brought human genetics from laboratory studies to mainstream commercial products. Today’s genetic research is a multi-billion industry based on the indisputable value of scientific output for the pharmaceutical industry.

The key resource in this value production is the genetic material acquired from individuals through exploitable commercial services to be resold as digitized genetic data to research institutions for profit.

The Waag Society decided to challenge this exploitation with a socially responsible business model of self-ownership, where citizens remain owners of their genetic material and sequenced data. For that purpose the Waag Society proposes a cooperative institution, fully owned by its members, providing a legal framework for citizens to remain owners of their genetic data during the whole process of its monetization. Such an organization will actively advocate, negotiate and represent citizen interests.

Credits

Production: Waag Society (NL)
Support: Creative Industries Fund NL

Waag Society (NL) is an institute for art, science and technology—is a pioneer in the field of digital media. Over the past 22 years, the foundation has developed into an institution of international stature, a platform for artistic research and experimentation, and has become both a catalyst for events and a breeding ground for cultural and social innovation. Waag Society explores emerging technologies and provides art and culture a central role in the designing of new applications for novel advances in science and technology.

www.waag.org/en/project/gene-coop

Experts Tour: Ars Electronica Gallery Spaces Tour

Martin Hieslmair — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 06:01:51 +0000

With the Ars Electronica Gallery Spaces Ars Electronica created an entirely new and innovative format. Christophe de Jaeger, co-initiator of the initiative, guide through the gallery spaces. The Ars Electronica Gallery Spaces were coined in response to growing mutual interest on the part of media artists, collectors and galleries as a setting for protagonists to compare experiences and to discuss, among other topics, such core issues as the long-term maintenance and conservation of media-art projects and the many new formats and business models manifesting themselves on the growing online art market.

Christophe de Jaeger (BE), Simone Furtlehner

SUN Sept. 10, 2017

SUN Sept. 10, 2017, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

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