• Implications of biotechnology, bioengineering, niomedical systems in the humanities
• Watson and Crick discovered that biology is a way to code information - The Double Helix - compression technology
• Intermedia - challenege the actual coherence of teh medium itself
• Machinema - machine generated cinema
• What is this notion of virtuality - illusion? Secondary to the real world, is theatre a virtual world?
• Automoton (sp?) , Ruby
• Digital artifacts always have material "presence"

Standards for sharing/organizing information

• Issues with making stuff available to the world digitally
• Copyright
• Time-proofing/Must predict the future
• Dependent on infrastructure/power supply