The Gene Media Forum promotes public dialogue of genome research and its impact on science and society. A non - profit, non-partisan organization, it provides the media with access to resources to help insure the fullest coverage of the social and political, as well as the science of the genetic revolution. Their site includes transcripts and video archives of past GMF sponsored forums. These include a discussion with Dr. Harold Varmus and a panel discussion on DNA & Justice. The Gene Media Forum is presented by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication, Syracuse University

The Human Genome:A collection of resources related to the gene sequence, its science, and its meaning... from Science Magazine.

Artists Mine Genomic Issues from Wired News: An update on artists whose work explores the issues and ethics of biotechnology. It also contains addition links and resources.
 

Related Visualists and Artists

Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theoretician working with genetic imagery. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institute, the Philips Collection, P.S.1 Museum, the Stadkunst in Koln, and the Museum of Modern Art in Japan. In 2001, her work will be featured at the Getty Museum.

Aziz + Cucher have been collaborating on and exhibiting digital photography projects and sculpture since 1991. Their website has images of their work and interviews that verbally express their ideas.

Kevin Clarke received a BFA in sculpture from Cooper Union in New York City, where he was born. He subsequently spent four years in Switzerland and Germany working on conceptual photographic projects and exhibitions. Clarke has toured the world photographing night portraits titled AWE, before returning to his interest in genetics. FROM THE BLOOD OF THE POETS is a series of portraits derived from DNA sequences of artists and scientists in which a graphic DNA analysis is combined with Clarke's photographic meditations on identity, archetype and icon.

davidkremers is a conceptual artist specializing in biological subject matter. He has a very interesting website, difficult to navigate, but worth the view. "if you look around...what we really need is a new way of looking at things."

Keith Cottingham lives and works as an artist in San Francisco. He studied at San Francisco State University, including special study with Lynn Hershman (Photography and Video), and at the Center for Computer Arts, San Francisco, and at the San Luis Obispo Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo, California. Numerous solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. Keith Cottingham was awarded a Distinction by the Prix Ars Electronica jury for his entry Fictitious Portrait in the category Computer Graphics..

Rosalind Franklin was responsible for much of the research and discovery work that led to the understanding of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins received a Nobel Prize for the double-helix model of DNA in 1962, four years after Franklin's death at age 37 from ovarian cancer. You can read more about her here.

Eduardo Kac is an artist whose website offers an interesting perspective about genetic science through art.

Leigh Anne Langwell has a background in biological and medical imaging which has had a considerable impact on her artistic process. Surgical and X-ray documents have been of particular interest to her and her work reflects that interest.