DNA2NSA

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DNA2NSA

In 1998 the Icelandic government granted the rights to scan the DNA of all its citizens to the company deCODE. This company believes that the Icelandic model for it’s inhabitants mixed with other phenotypes can be of great interest in the study of certain illnesses like schizophrenia, cancer etc.

DNA2NSA is a performance based on searches through the only publicly released part of the DNA database collected by the deCODE company, looking for specific chromosome signifiers. The searches are done via bash shell scripting and performed in Linux terminal. The sound is generated by piping the search results as text directly to the sound system.