nDNA_C1_00001

Bio-print on glass, 7 mm triple-layer agar gel composite, 2025

Genomic data segment: rs548049170, chr1:69869 (TT)

nDNA (series) explores how biological information becomes embodied and how data shifts from abstraction into material presence. Generated from a specific genomic segment, the work translates genetic data into a bioprinted form using agar-based composites layered onto glass.

Rather than representing life, the piece enacts it. The biomaterial is subject to instability, decay, and transformation, mirroring the mutable nature of genetic memory and identity. Information is not fixed or archival here; it is contingent, temporal, and vulnerable.

Positioned between artifact, organism, and self-portrait, nDNA (series) collapses distinctions between nature, technology, and self. The work exists as an ongoing process rather than a finished object, foregrounding becoming over permanence.

nDNA_C1_00002, 2025

Genomic data segment: rs144164397, chr1:978804 (CC)

nDNA_C1_00003, 2025

Genomic data segment: rs61768477, chr1:1095130 (TT)

Detail view showing material instability and pigment migration within the agar matrix over time.

Toolpath visualization and G-code excerpt used to bio-print genomic segments in agar composite.