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Biomedia

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“Biomedia,” proposed by Eugene Thacker, is an interdisciplinary concept referring to the contemporary condition of biology in which biotechnology and digital media merge. He focused on processes whereby biological data and bodies themselves are manipulated and recoded through information technology. Main points of “Biomedia” The mediatization of biology: Thacker points out a state where DNA sequences, proteins, cells, or whole organisms are treated as informational code (data) and function like information-processing systems. Fusion of materiality and information: It shows biological and bodily materiality being converted into information and visualized by computer science and informatics, becoming manipulable “media.” Biotechnology’s digital nature: in his 2004 book “Biomedia” and elsewhere, he argues that biotechnology’s essence lies in digitizing life rather than mere technological intervention.

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