Davis' work has been featured in scientific journals, art magazines, and mainstream media[8]—including Scientific American,[9]Nature magazine,[10] and several books.[11][12] Additionally, Davis has contributed to projects associated with the DIYbio movement[13] . He is frequently invited to speak at universities, labs, and art institutes.[14] Davis' life was further detailed in a feature-length documentary entitled Heaven+Earth+Joe Davis.[15][16][17] Davis has had many media appearances, including twice on the Colbert Report. A segment was also produced on Nova.[18] In 2001, the Washington Post termed Davis the "éminence grise of the 'bioart' movement", saying further, "Davis eschews the art versus science argument, insisting that he speaks both languages and could not possibly tear the two disciplines apart in his own mind".[19]
Davis' work has further significance in documenting and critiquing early attempts at steganographic encoding of culturally important messages and images for future generations or extraterrestrial cultures.[6] Davis has stated that he does not wish to create "green rabbits or purple dogs", but rather to manipulate the reams of silent, "junk DNA" that comprise more than 90% of an organism's genetic code.[20]
Other works
Audio Microscope - a microscope that translates light information into sound allowing the observer to "hear" living cells, each with its own "acoustic signature"
Experiments with how E. coli respond to jazz and other sounds with Adam Zaretsky[4]
"Primordial" clocks - a project surrounding a theory that life spontaneously self-assembled[21]
Plans for channeling lightning bolts into a pulsed laser of almost unparalleled energy and into towering sculptures that would change the bolts' color and emit incredibly loud tones[4]
Poetica Vaginal - an interstellar signal briefly transmitted from the MIT Millstone Radar. He converted vaginal contractions into an analog signal and digitally mapped the input into a phoenetic audible representation (or voice). The project was able to send out a few test signals consisting of this data to the intended targets; however, the US Air Force shut down the project before it sent out the bulk of the message.[9][22]
↑ Reichle, Ingeborg (2009). Art in the Age of Technoscience. Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art. Wien & New York: Springer.
↑ Emily Voigt (Fall–Winter 2009). "The Art is Alive!". Isotope: A Journal of Literary Science and Nature Writing. Archived from the original on 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
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