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SUMMARY:Future Archive and the Biomolecular Humanities - DNA Storage syst
 ems and the future of information
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DESCRIPTION:<strong>Join us for an informal networking lunch to discuss t
 he future of data storage.</strong>\n\n\nMolecular storage solutions for
  our incipient data crisis are being developed in haphazard ways. Millio
 ns of bytes of information are currently being produced and storage is e
 xpensive\, expanding\, and highly energy intensive. Synthesizing DNA and
  using it to store information both inert and in vivo has been proposed 
 to address ongoing challenges about capacity and sustainability. Researc
 h in the past 10 years has led to a revolution in capability of this tec
 hnology. Our future information may be stored in DNA\, putting molecular
  matter at the heart of the humanities.\n\nFuture DNA storage and future
  DNA encryption possibilities suggest a biomolecular architecture for co
 mmunications\, cybersecurity\, data manipulation\, and memory. Yet this 
 incredibly modern-seeming process brings us back to a familiar archival 
 story about power\, ownership\, organisation\, nationhood\, and informat
 ion security.\nWhilst such new interactions may allow for more sustainab
 le futures at the same time there is need to ensure that ethics\, bias\,
  justice\, equality and access are at the centre of developing intellect
 ual and practical frameworks.\n\nBiomolecular practices\, archives\, tec
 hnologies and datasets have the capacity and the potential to obviate st
 andard models of knowledge\, practices of communication\, and constructi
 on of archives. Enhanced genetic and biomolecular understanding suggests
  the possibility of a new type of humanities\, one that understands the 
 human entirely differently. The biomolecularisation of the archive sugge
 sts a shift to an embodied\, molecular\, biological understanding of the
  archive as something alive and also of-life\, shifting our apprehension
  of what a knowledge production system is.\n\nThis event - presented by 
 Creative Manchester and the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology - will
  bring together those working in biotechnology\, ethics\, archives and m
 useums to discuss the future of data storage. In particular there will b
 e an opportunity to hear about ongoing and current projects that are loo
 king to use synthetic DNA to store information.\n\n\n<strong>Speakers</s
 trong>\n\nJerome De Groot\, Professor of Literature and Culture at The U
 niversity of Manchester\nPatrick Cai\, Chair Professor of Synthetic Geno
 mics\, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology\, The University of Manches
 ter\nKewin Gombeau\, Research Fellow at The University of Manchester\nRa
 ymond Wan\, Research Associate at The University of Manchester\n\n\nBook
  your free place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-archive-and
 -the-biomolecular-humanities-tickets-1042632831867?aff=oddtdtcreator\n
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TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
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LOCATION:Contact Theatre (Space 0)\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, M15 6JA
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