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Tree Links Cloning has made it possible to Xerox copy organic life and fundamentally confound the traditional understanding of individualism and authenticity. In the public sphere genetics is often reduced to 'finding the gene for .... (fill in the blank)', misrepresenting the complex interactions with environmental influences. The swelling cultural debate that contrasts genetic determinism and environmental influence has consequences for understanding our own agency in the world, be it predetermined by genetic inevitability or constructed by our actions and environment. The OneTree project is a forum for public involvement in this debate, a shared experience with actual material consequences.--Jeremijenko The work consists of 1000 clones of the same tree, micropropogated
in culture. After two years, they were distributed to 200 public locations
in the SF Bay area, and planted there. Biologically the trees are identical,
and therefore, with time they will exhibit changes based on their environmental
and social circumstance. This project connects the virtual and the real on this level, and the environment becomes a player/influencer on the other level. And its always positive to see such successful nature/tech/environmentally friendly art. Submitted
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