Project Details
The premise of "The Bomar Gene" is that within every human there is a singular gene,
unique only to that individual. And with that gene comes a singular ability, a rare,
mostly never realized capacity for interacting with the world. "The Bomar Gene" explores
this mythical gene, through a series of ficto-biographies, with each story being re-translated
and spatialized through interactive interfaces and embodied animations.
Each interface/section not only explores the realms of culture and individuality and genetics,
but also attempts to innovate new methods of net based aesthetics and arouse alternatives for
user interaction with artistic content.
The layering of ideas, of various notions of how our internal forms recreate
our external reach, is explored through the multiple paths, the weaving of sound,
scrolling text and dynamically explorative images. And then within the layers and
stories are nine interfaces, the hands of this net-artwork, they not only serve to
display information, but to alter the way the user connects with the content, to become
digital fingers for fictional genes.
Published & exhibited
Group exhibition, 4th International Prize Ciutat de Vinaròs on Digital Literature, Winner Fiction Category, Barcelona, Spain.
Net-Art Juried Exhibition, School of Art and Design, Michigan University.
Rhizome Artbase, The New Museum, New York City.
Group exhibition, ACM Multimedia 2005 Interactive Art Program, Sponsored by ACM SIGMM, SIGGRAPH, and SIGCOMM, Singapore.
Group exhibition, Finalist Exhibition, International Digital Arts Awards, sponsored by Creative Industries Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and Queensland Health, QUT Brisbane.
Memmott, Talan. 2011. Digital Rhetoric And Poetics, Signifying Strategies in Electronic Literature. Sweden: Malmö University.
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Winner of the Interactive Fiction Category, 4th International Prize Ciutat de Vinaròs on Digital Literature, University of Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
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Playable version: The Bomar Gene.
Consortium on Electronic literature: https://cellproject.net/work/bomar-gene
Heckvan, Davin. 2010. ”Bomar Gene”. Electronic Literature Directory.
Elmcip entry: https://elmcip.net/creative-work/bomar-gene
The NEXT entry: https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/450/26/0/