Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine

Prevodilac: Mile Živković Lektor: Anca Dimovska

This is a vending machine in Los Angeles.

Ovo je automat za prodaju u Los Anđelesu.

It's in a shopping mall, and it sells fish eggs.

Nalazi se u tržnom centru i prodaje riblja jaja.

It's a caviar-vending machine.

To je automat za kavijar.

This is the Art-o-mat, an art-vending machine

Ovo je Art-o-mat,

umetnički automat koji prodaje

that sells small artistic creations by different artists,

male umetničke kreacije raznih umetnika,

usually on small wood blocks or matchboxes, in limited edition.

obično na malim drvenim blokovima ili kutijama od šibica,

u ograničenom izdanju.

This is Oliver Medvedik.

Ovo je Oliver Medvedik. On nije automat,

He is not a vending machine, but he is one of the founders of Genspace,

ali on je jedan od osnivača Dženspejsa,

biolaboratorije zajednice u Bruklinu, Njujork,

a community biolab in Brooklyn, New York,

gde svako može da pohađa časove

where anybody can go and take classes

and learn how to do things like grow E. coli that glows in the dark

i nauči stvari poput uzgajanja ešerihije koli koja svetli u mraku

ili kako da uzme DNK iz jagode.

or learn how to take strawberry DNA.

In fact, I saw Oliver do one of these strawberry DNA extractions

U stvari, video sam Olivera pre oko godinu dana kako izdvaja DNK jagode

about a year ago, and this is what led me into this bizarre path

i to me je navelo na ovaj bizarni put

o kom ću vam govoriti sada.

that I'm going to talk to you right now.

Jer je DNK jagode vrlo očaravajući, jer je tako lep.

Strawberry DNA is really fascinating, because it's so beautiful.

Nikada pre nisam razmišljao o DNK kao lepoj,

I'd never thought about DNA being a beautiful thing before,

pre nego što sam je video u ovoj formi.

before I saw it in this form.

I dosta ljudi, posebno u umetničkoj zajednici,

A lot of people, especially in the art community,

se ne bave nužno naukom na ovaj način.

don't necessarily engage in science in this way.

Odmah sam se pridružio Dženspejsu posle ovoga,

I instantly joined Genspace after this,

i pitao sam Olivera: „Ako možemo jagode,

and asked Oliver, "If we can do this with strawberries,

možemo li da radimo i ljude?“

I nakon 10 minuta,

can we do this with people?"

About 10 minutes later, we were both spitting in vials,

oboje smo je vrteli u bočicama i smišljali

protokol za izdvajanje ljudske DNK.

coming up with a protocol for human DNA extraction.

I počeo sam da radim ovo na svoju ruku,

I started doing this on my own.

ovako u stvari izgleda moja DNK.

This is what my DNA actually looks like.

Bio sam na večeri sa prijateljima, umetnicima,

And I was at a dinner party with some artist friends,

i pričao sam im o ovom projektu,

and I was telling them about this project,

i oni nisu verovali da stvarno može da se vidi DNK.

and they couldn't believe that you could actually see DNA.

Onda sam rekao, u redu, hajdemo po neki pribor odmah.

So I said, all right, let's get out some supplies right now.

I počeo sam da priređujem te bizarne večere kod mene petkom uveče

And I started having these bizarre dinner parties on Friday nights,

gde bi ljudi došli

where people would come over and we'd do DNA extractions,

i mi bismo radili DNK izdvajanje,

and I would capture them on video,

a ja bih ih snimao,

jer stvara vrstu smešnog portreta takođe.

because it created this kind of funny portrait as well.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

To su ljudi koji se obično

These are people who don't necessarily regularly engage with science.

uopšte ne bave naukom.

You can kind of tell from their reactions.

To možete videti iz njihovih reakcija.

(Laughter)

But they became fascinated by it,

Ali postaju fascinirani

and it was really exciting for me to see them get excited about science.

i bilo je zaista zanimljivo da gledam

kako ih nauka uzbuđuje.

And so I started doing this regularly.

Počeo sam da radim ovo redovno.

(Laughter)

To je prilično čudna stvar da se radi petkom uveče,

It's an odd thing to do with your Friday nights,

ali ovo sam počeo da radim

but this is what I started doing.

i počeo sam da skupljam grupe

I started collecting a whole group of my friends' DNA in small vials

DNK mojih prijatelja u bočicama

i da ih kategorišem.

and categorizing them.

To je izgledalo ovako.

This is what that looked like.

I navelo me je da razmislim o par stvari.

And it started to make me think about a couple of things.

Prvo, ovo me je prilično podsećalo na moj zid na Fejsbuku.

First, this looked a lot like my Facebook wall.

Na neki način, stvorio sam genetičku mrežu,

So in a way, I created sort of a genetic social network.

genetičku društvenu mrežu.

And the second thing was,

Druga stvar, jednom je svratio prijatelj

one time a friend came over and looked at this on my table

i pogledao na moj sto i rekao: "Oh. Zašto su numerisani?

and was like, "Uh ... why are they numbered?

Da li je ova osoba veća retkost od one osobe?"

Is this person more rare than the other one?"

A ja nisam ni pomislio na to.

And I hadn't even thought about that.

Samo su bili numerisani jer je to bio raspored po kom sam uzeo DNK.

They were just numbered

because that was the order that I extracted the DNA in.

Ali to me je nateralo da pomislim na skupljanje igračaka

But that made me think about collecting toys,

i ovo što se sada dešava

and what's going on right now in the toy world with blind box toys,

u svetu igračaka s neobeleženim kutijama

i skupljanjem ovih retkih igračaka.

and being able to collect these rare toys.

Kupite kutije. Niste sigurni šta je u njima.

You buy these boxes, but aren't sure what's going to be inside.

Ali onda kada ih otvorite,

But when you open them, you have different rarities of the toys.

imate igračke različitog rariteta.

Mislio sam da je ovo zanimljivo.

I thought that was interesting; I thought about this

Počeo sam da razmišljam o ovome, automatu za kavijar, Art-o-matu i svemu,

and the caviar vending machine and the Art-o-mat all together.

i iz nekog razloga jedne večeri sam crtao automat za prodaju,

And for some reason, I was one night drawing a vending machine,

razmišljajući o slikanju automata,

thinking of doing paintings of a vending machine.

i bočica sa mojom DNK je stajala tu,

i video sam ovu predivnu saradnju između

The vial of my DNA was sitting there,

niti DNK i koturova na automatu za prodaju.

and I saw a beautiful collaboration between the strands of DNA

and the coils of a vending machine.

Naravno, odlučio sam da napravim umetničku instalaciju

So I decided to create an art installation called the DNA Vending Machine.

koja se zove Automat za DNK.

Evo ga.

Here it is.

(Muzika)

(Music)

[DNA Vending Machine is an art installation

["Automat za DNK je umetnička instalacija o našem većem pristupu biotehnologiji."]

about our increasing access to biotechnology.]

(Music)

[For a reasonable cost, you can purchase a sample of human DNA

["Za razumnu cenu, možete kupiti uzorak

from a traditional vending machine.]

ljudske DNK iz tradicionalnog automata."]

(Music)

["Svaki uzorak je upakovan sa retkim

[Each sample comes packaged

with a collectible limited edition portrait of the human specimen.]

portretom ljudskog primerka iz ograničene serije."]

(Music)

["Automat za DNK se prema DNK odnosi

[DNA Vending Machine treats DNA as a collectible material

kao retkom materijalu i fokusira se

and brings to light legal issues over the ownership of DNA.]

na pravne probleme vlasništva DNK."]

(Music ends)

Gabrijel Garsija-Kolombo: Automat za DNK je trenutno

Gabriel Barcia-Colombo:

The DNA Vending Machine is currently in a couple of galleries in New York,

u nekoliko galerija u Njujorku,

i zapravo se prilično brzo rasprodaje.

and it's selling out pretty well.

Trenutno smo kod prve serije od 100 komada

We're in the first edition of 100 pieces,

i nadamo se još jednoj uskoro.

hoping to do another edition pretty soon.

Zapravo bih više voleo da ga ubacim u metro,

I'd like to get it into more of a metro hub,

poput stanica Grand Sentral ili Pen,

like Grand Central or Penn Station,

odmah pored drugih, pravih automata na tim mestima.

next to some of the other vending machines in that location.

Ali zapravo sa ovim i dosta drugih umetničkih projekata,

But really, with this and a lot of my art projects,

želim da publici postavim pitanje, a to je,

I want to ask the audience a question:

kada biotehnologija i DNK sekvenciranje

When biotechnology and DNA sequencing becomes as cheap as, say, laser cutting

postanu jeftini poput, recimo, laserskog sečenja

or 3D printing or buying caviar from a vending machine,

ili 3D štampanja ili kupovine kavijara iz automata,

da li ćete još uvek dati svoj uzorak DNK da bude deo automata?

will you submit your sample of DNA to be part of the vending machine?

I koliko će vredeti ti uzorci?

How much will these samples be worth?

I da li ćete kupiti nečiji uzorak?

Will you buy someone else's sample?

And what will you be able to do with that sample?

I šta ćete moći da uradite s tim uzorkom?

Hvala vam.

Thank you.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)