A digital image titled 'unwanted genes (weeds) on a DNA spiral' by NZ artist Catherine Fitzgerald has been selected for the exhibition DNA: art & science - the double helix at the Contemporary Art Museum at the USF Campus in Tampa, Florida. The digital projection exhibition will take place on January 22nd, 2004, from 7-9pm.
A digital image titled 'unwanted genes (weeds) on a DNA spiral' by NZ artist Catherine Fitzgerald has been selected for the exhibition DNA: art & science - the double helix at the Contemporary Art Museum at the USF Campus in Tampa, Florida. The digital projection exhibition will take place on January 22nd, 2004, from 7-9pm.
It will also be exhibited in the online exhibition beginning January 22nd. The online exhibition will be available at http://www.usfcam.usf.edu.

Catherine Fitzgerald, is a NZ artist bot now lives in Ireland. The image was created in reference to the 50 year celebrations recognising the discovery of structure of DNA in 1953.

The standard DNA model, which in the framework of western scientific thought that is often mechanistic and reductive, is seen merely as a code. Often we hear it likened to a computer code, a code that can be 'broken', 'edited', 'cut and pasted'.

The living wildflower weed model offers an alternative metaphor.

Catherine is also exhibiting a significant body of recent art-science work at Trinity College Dublin laboratories, Ireland, during Jan-Feb, 2004. For more info see http://www.seeartscience.com or contact Dr Paula Murphy at paula.murphy@tcd.ie