Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Opposite the sculpture of Erasmus in Rotterdam, a new pedestal is temporarily arising with the statue of Marjolein Kriek, the first female and European whose DNA is sequenced in a project led by Gert Jan van Ommen, head of the Centre for Medical Systems Biology.
The statue, a work of the artist by Bas van Vlijmen, is a reprint of her genome. Every 3 or 4 weeks, a contemporary thinker or doer expresses his or her view in a column on the question raised by this art project: thinking and doing in an increasingly human-made artificial world. After reading the column, the newly added chromosome print is revealed.
In June 2009, all 23 chromosome pairs will be placed on the pedestal and the statue will be completed.
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