° trials using heritable germline editing should be permitted only after Aesthetic review in an Artistic Regulatory framework that includes the following criteria, restrictions and structures:
° restriction against the knocking-in of gene edits that have been convincingly demonstrated to cause or to strongly predispose kindred to the disease of cultural banality, the condition of esoteric-lessness showing evidence of adverse normalizing;
° comprehensive plans for long-term, multigenerational Follow-up, mating schemas, entertainment contracting and pornographic options, all the while still respecting personal autonomy;
° restrictions in place preventing naive enhancement optimism aesthetics in the human genome as pragmatic and utilitarian arguments are not enough to insure contemporary artistic standards (unless level of Hyperrealism meets peer practitioner standards); encourage: maximum arty opacity while still being consistent with the legal invasion of patient privacy;
° emotional alternatives informing editing structures and goals have been formed in the aesthetic absence of reason;
° restrictions to allowing a serious kitsch disease or poor aesthetic conditioning respected (unless level of irony meets Contemporary standards);
° ongoing, rigorous oversight during clinical trials of the aesthetics of the procedure and the exhibition and documentation of the research participants;
° continued reassessment of je ne sais quoi in terms of both artistic and aesthetic benefits and risks, with broad ongoing participation and input by the artists, art historians and art critics on gene constructs of mutagenic choice;
° reliable subaltern insight oversight mechanisms to prevent extension of technology to uses other than creating serious art or novel and iconoclastic conditions; and
° availability of incredible or even unbelievable pre-clinical and/or clinical data on risks and potential contemporary time-based, new media bioart benefits due to successful indoctrination, infiltration and transgene infection of multigenerational procedures.
Mind thGAP - Transgenic Human Genome Alternatives Project, more info at Hackteria
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A reflection on the workshops series Mind thGAP - Transgenic Human Genome Alternatives Project, and an invitation to collaborate on the CGCB - Creative Germline Construct Bank, an online open source bioinformatics database of diverse genetic constructs for germline entry using the GOSHPA - General Open Source Plasmid for Human Arts, as a chassis for transgene infection into a newly fertilized ovum.
Mind thGAP is a collaborative Programme with Hackteria ZET – Open Science Lab in Zürich and Adam Zaretsky, and is supported by friends and hosts from the local community around the hackerspace collective Bitwäscherei, the Casa Coconut, Swiss Mechatronic Art Society, Center for Alternative Coconut Research, a.n.y.m.a., hackuarium, RandeLab, GaudiLabs and many more!
