Reading this article made me think of career choices…It made me think of why I’ve been so stagnant, and why making a decision as to what exactly I want to be has been such the dilemma for my person. I grew up wanting to be a scientist – the crazy dream: an astronaut. That dream, however, for a number of reasons (that I would rather not elaborate on) seemed further and further away from me around the time that I always figured it would seem closer (based on steps: where are you studying, what are you studying, where are you working, etc..)…I started to fall in love, but I had always been in love with life and the beauty that is found in even the biggest of messes.

I fooled myself into believing that I could make art, fooled myself and when I arrived as an official fool with a self-tailored degree in Dramatic Writing, Film and Social Change I still kept running. I kept on running away from myself, I had been running for quite some time, I kept running for quite some more. I ran because I felt that I could not marry my two loves, like this world needed so much specialization that if I didn’t want to be mediocre I had to completely turn to Science or completely turn to Art. But reading about digital technologies as tools reminded me that I live in the future, and in the past there were even more limitations (in a sense) and many people still managed to marry the two (Art & Science).

Andreas Müller-Pohle’s Blind Genes (2002), which is mentioned in the Digital Technologies as a Tool reading, is art and science. Müller-Pohle “searched a genetic database on the Internet for the keyword ‘blindness’”(p.51), used what he found on the data available and made art.  “The DNA bases CGAT (Cytosine, Guanine, Adenine, Thymine) were then positioned in blocks of ten, translated into Braille and coloured – A: yellow, G: blue, C:red, T:green…Through a process of data translation, the genetic, organic ‘code’ for blindness manifests itself as Braille, the code and sign system that establishes an ‘interface’ with the seeing world” (p.51). His work is an example that the two can be married, the reading is an example that they are married quite often – although, perhaps not in notable amounts.