Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine

翻译人员: Zhiting Chen 校对人员: Geoff Chen

This is a vending machine in Los Angeles.

这是在美国洛杉矶的自动贩卖机。

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

它在商场里，售卖鱼卵。

It's a caviar-vending machine.

也就是鱼子酱自动贩卖机。

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

这是Art-o-mat（贩卖机品牌），

一个艺术贩卖机，

that sells small artistic creations by different artists,

售卖由各路艺术家创作的小艺术品。

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

通常是在小木块或火柴盒上的艺术创作，

是限量的。

This is Oliver Medvedik.

这是奥利弗·麦徳沃鄂迪克。 他不是自动贩卖机，

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

他是基因空间（Genspace）的创办人之一，

绅士空间是位于纽约布鲁克林区的 一个社区生物学实验室，

a community biolab in Brooklyn, New York,

任何人都可以去上课

where anybody can go and take classes

学习如何在黑暗中培植大肠杆菌

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

或学习如何提取草莓的DNA。

or learn how to take strawberry DNA.

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

事实上，大约一年前， 我看过奥利弗从这些草莓中提取DNA，

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

就是这个实验引领我走上这诡异的道路，

我现在就要将给你们听。

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

因为草莓DNA真的很有趣， 因为它是如此的美丽。

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

在我看到这个之前形态前，

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

我从没想过DNA可以这样美丽。

before I saw it in this form.

很多人，尤其是在艺术圈的人，

A lot of people, especially in the art community,

不一定要这样和科学挂上联系。

don't necessarily engage in science in this way.

在此之后，我立即加入了基因空间，

I instantly joined Genspace after this,

我问奥利弗， "呃，如果我们能提取草莓的DNA，

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

我们能从人体上提取吗?"

约10分钟后，我们两个都

can we do this with people?"

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

让自己的DNA在小瓶中旋转

并且起草了人类DNA提取议定书。

coming up with a protocol for human DNA extraction.

于是我先拿自己做实验，

I started doing this on my own.

我的DNA长这样。

This is what my DNA actually looks like.

当我与一些艺术家朋友共进晚餐的时候，

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

我跟他们讲了这一项目，

and I was telling them about this project,

他们不敢相信DNA是可见的。

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

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

所以我说，好吧，让我们 赶紧去找一些愿意提供DNA的人。

于是在星期五晚上， 我会在家举办这些奇特的晚宴，

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

人们会过来参加，

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

我们便提取他们的DNA，

and I would capture them on video,

我会用摄影机拍下他们，

因为我能看到这种滑稽的面部表情。

because it created this kind of funny portrait as well.

(Laughter)

（笑声）

这些都不是定期和科学研究

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

有接触的人。

You can kind of tell from their reactions.

这点你可以从他们的反应上看出来。

(Laughter)

But they became fascinated by it,

但他们迷上了它，

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

我非常幸福能看到他们

对科学有兴趣。

And so I started doing this regularly.

于是我经常举办这样的活动。

(Laughter)

周五晚上做这件事情是有些怪异，

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

但我开始做了，

but this is what I started doing.

我开始收集整组

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

朋友们的DNA小瓶

并对它们进行分类。

and categorizing them.

就是这个样子。

This is what that looked like.

它使我想起几件事。

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

首先，这很像我的脸书墙。

First, this looked a lot like my Facebook wall.

所以在某种程度上， 我创建了有点基因网络，

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

一个基因社交网络。

And the second thing was,

第二件事是，一次有个朋友过来

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

看着我桌上的这个图片说，"哦。

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

为什么他们有编号？ 是因为这个人比另一个更罕见吗?"

Is this person more rare than the other one?"

这是我甚至都没想过的问题。

And I hadn't even thought about that.

他们只是按照我提取DNA的顺序排列。

They were just numbered

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

但是，这让我想到了收集玩具，

But that made me think about collecting toys,

正在进行的这件事

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

如同在收藏盲目玩具盒，

并能够收集这些罕见的玩具。

and being able to collect these rare toys.

你买这些玩具盒。 你不知道里面有些什么。

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

然后，当你打开他们，

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

你发现那是罕见的玩具。

于是，我想那很有趣。

I thought that was interesting; I thought about this

我开始思考这个项目和鱼子酱自动贩卖机 和Art-o-mat贩卖机，

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

出于某种原因， 我花了一个晚上绘制自动贩卖机，

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

想着如何绘制自动售货机，

thinking of doing paintings of a vending machine.

我小小瓶的DNA坐在那里，

我看到了DNA分子链和自动贩卖机线圈间的

The vial of my DNA was sitting there,

某种美妙合作。

and I saw a beautiful collaboration between the strands of DNA

and the coils of a vending machine.

所以，当然， 我决定要创造一个艺术装置

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

名叫DNA自动贩卖机。

就是这个。

Here it is.

（音乐）

(Music)

[DNA Vending Machine is an art installation

["DNA自动贩卖机是，有关我们 增进接触生物技术的艺术装置。"]

about our increasing access to biotechnology.]

(Music)

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

["以合理的价格，您可以从传统自动售卖机处

from a traditional vending machine.]

购买一个人类DNA的样本。"]

(Music)

["每个样本都配有人体试样的

[Each sample comes packaged

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

珍藏版限量肖像画"]。

(Music)

["DNA自动贩卖机，将DNA视为

[DNA Vending Machine treats DNA as a collectible material

一种可收集的材料，

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

公开讨论DNA所有权的法律问题"]。

(Music ends)

加布里埃尔·加西亚-科伦坡：DNA自动贩卖机

Gabriel Barcia-Colombo:

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

目前设立在纽约的在几个画廊里，

事实上，它的销量很好。

and it's selling out pretty well.

我们在第一版制作了100件作品，

We're in the first edition of 100 pieces,

估计很快能做下一个版本。

hoping to do another edition pretty soon.

我其实更想让这种贩卖机 设立在轨道交通枢纽，

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

像是纽约中央车站或者是宾州车站，

like Grand Central or Penn Station,

在其他常见的自动贩卖机附近。

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

关于这个项目， 和我的一些其他的艺术项目，

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

我想问观众一个问题，那就是

I want to ask the audience a question:

当生物技术和DNA测序

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

变得很便宜，像是激光切割

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

或者3D打印，或是 从自动贩卖机里买鱼子酱，

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

你仍然愿意提供您的DNA， 让它成为自动贩卖机的一部分吗？

这些样本的价值是多少？

How much will these samples be worth?

你会买别人的样本吗？

Will you buy someone else's sample?

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

你要这些样本有什么用？

谢谢。

Thank you.

(Applause)

（掌声）