Superhumanity - Alexander Tarakhovsky - Beyond the Gene

Beyond the Gene

Alexander Tarakhovsky

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A still from a short animation attempts to illustrate C.H. Waddington's idea of the "epigenetic landscape." According to its author "Waddington saw cells as pebbles rolling down a mountain with hills and valleys. The bottom of the valleys represents cell or differentiation states." See

Superhumanity
November 2016










Notes
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Lynn Margulis, Symbiosis in Cell Evolution (New York: W.H. Freeman, 1981).

Superhumanity, a project by e-flux Architecture at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, is produced in cooperation with the Istanbul Design Biennial, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the Ernst Schering Foundation.