Name: Gabriel Barcia -Colombo我的DNA自動售貨機 (Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:29:20.000Z
Duration: 4 min 57 s

This is a vending machine in Los Angeles.

譯者: 杏儀 歐陽 審譯者: Marssi Draw

It's in a shopping mall, and it sells fish eggs.

這是在洛杉磯的一部自動販賣機，

在一個大型購物商城，販賣魚卵。

This is the Art-o-mat, an art-vending machine

that sells small artistic creations by different artists,

usually on small wood blocks or matchboxes, in limited edition.

販賣不同藝術家創作的小藝術品，

He is not a vending machine, but he is one of the founders of Genspace,

賣的通常為小型木刻或者火柴盒，

a community biolab in Brooklyn, New York,

這是奧利弗•馬凡迪。他不是一部自動販賣機，

and learn how to do things like grow E. coli that glows in the dark

但是，他是基因空間（Genspace）的創建人之一。

基因空間是紐約布魯克林的一所社區生物實驗室，

In fact, I saw Oliver do one of these strawberry DNA extractions

about a year ago, and this is what led me into this bizarre path

學習各類東西，諸如培育 在暗處發光的大腸桿菌，

Strawberry DNA is really fascinating, because it's so beautiful.

老實說，一年前我看過奧利弗萃取草莓DNA，

I'd never thought about DNA being a beautiful thing before,

也是今日我將為大家講解的主題。

A lot of people, especially in the art community,

因為草莓DNA實在是叫人著迷， 因為這實在是太漂亮了。

don't necessarily engage in science in this way.

以前我從來不知道DNA是如此美麗動人，

and asked Oliver, "If we can do this with strawberries,

很多人，特別是藝術圈內的人，

不見得會以此方式涉入科學領域。

About 10 minutes later, we were both spitting in vials,

此後我很快就加入了基因空間，

coming up with a protocol for human DNA extraction.

我問奧利弗：「哎，既然我們能做草莓的，

And I was at a dinner party with some artist friends,

我們兩人已經將DNA放入瓶子裡面做分離，

and I was telling them about this project,

and they couldn't believe that you could actually see DNA.

So I said, all right, let's get out some supplies right now.

And I started having these bizarre dinner parties on Friday nights,

有一次我跟朋友聚餐，藝術圈內的朋友，

where people would come over and we'd do DNA extractions,

because it created this kind of funny portrait as well.

於是我就說，好吧，我們現在就做一些出來。

之後，我家開始有這些稀奇古怪的週五晚聚餐，

These are people who don't necessarily regularly engage with science.

You can kind of tell from their reactions.

這樣我就可以同時得到這類古靈精怪的表情。

and it was really exciting for me to see them get excited about science.

It's an odd thing to do with your Friday nights,

你大概也可以從他們的反應看出來。

I started collecting a whole group of my friends' DNA in small vials

之後我開始定期進行舉辦這個活動。

And it started to make me think about a couple of things.

每週五晚做這事情，的確有點奇怪，

First, this looked a lot like my Facebook wall.

So in a way, I created sort of a genetic social network.

one time a friend came over and looked at this on my table

and was like,  "Uh ... why are they numbered?

Is this person more rare than the other one?"

首先，這看上去很像我的臉書牆。

所以呢，我大概也創造了一個基因網，

because that was the order that I extracted the DNA in.

But that made me think about collecting toys,

而第二件事呢，有次一個朋友過來，

and what's going on right now in the toy world with blind box toys,

看了我桌子上的這些東西，就問：

and being able to collect these rare toys.

「噢，為什麼編號了？是不是因為 這個人的基因比另外一個罕見？」

You buy these boxes, but aren't sure what's going to be inside.

But when you open them, you have different rarities of the toys.

DNA編號是因為我就是按這個順序萃取DNA的。

I thought that was interesting; I thought about this

and the caviar vending machine and the Art-o-mat all together.

And for some reason, I was one night drawing a vending machine,

在玩具世界，玩具盒裡藏著未知的玩具，

thinking of doing paintings of a vending machine.

大家能夠收集到一些稀有的玩具。

你買了這些玩具盒，但是你不知道盒子裡有什麼玩具。

and I saw a beautiful collaboration between the strands of DNA

So I decided to create an art installation called the DNA Vending Machine.

我開始把這個跟魚子醬販賣機和Art-o-mat聯想起來，

很偶然，一天晚上我在畫一部自動販賣機，

[DNA Vending Machine is an art installation

about our increasing access to biotechnology.]

[For a reasonable cost, you can purchase a sample of human DNA

DNA的這些曲線和自動販賣機的卷線之間的融合。

之後呢，當然，我決定創造一部藝術裝置，

with a collectible limited edition portrait of the human specimen.]

[「DNA自動販賣機是一部關於 增加接觸生物技術的藝術裝置。」]

[DNA Vending Machine treats DNA as a collectible material

[「以合理的價格，你就可以從傳統的自動販賣機

and brings to light legal issues over the ownership of DNA.]

[「每一個樣本都同時附有該NDA主人的

一張有收藏價值的限量版人物像。」]

The DNA Vending Machine is currently in a couple of galleries in New York,

We're in the first edition of 100 pieces,

引發有關NDA擁有權合法問題的討論。」]

hoping to do another edition pretty soon.

卡伯耀•卡希亞-戈倫柏（Gabriel Garcia-Colombo）： 目前，DNA自動販賣機

I'd like to get it into more of a metro hub,

已經出現在紐約的幾個美術館，

next to some of the other vending machines in that location.

我們現在做了第一版，有100個，

But really, with this and a lot of my art projects,

我希望能把它帶進繁忙的地鐵站，

When biotechnology and DNA sequencing becomes as cheap as, say, laser cutting

or 3D printing or buying caviar from a vending machine,

然後就擺在其他真正的自動販賣機旁邊。

will you submit your sample of DNA to be part of the vending machine?

但是進行這個計畫和其他藝術計畫的同時，

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