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The Drachma Conjuration
March #29 > April #4, 2011 Drachma – Speculation on Symbolic Value Drachma is a research initiative, involving artists and theorists across disciplines, with an interest in the Greek economic reality and the Greek currency as a manifestation of this reality. We are investigating the Drachma as a symbol of economic value, national identity and ...
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Human Population Categories in Genetic Studies and Racialisation
MSc in Race, Ethnicity and Post- ‐Colonial Studies London School of Economics and Political Science Download PDF: R Bhattacharya – Human Population Categories in Genomic Studies and Racialisation
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Hints to Workmen
Robin Bhattacharya has been invited to present his work as part of the collective exhibition “Hints to Workmen” at the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK. Several notes of The ROBIN™ Currency are on display in the form of an explanatory installation. More denominations are available in exchange for other currencies exclusively at the ...
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SELF PORTRAIT at RAUM № 2 – Bern
Image: The beginning of the list of markers mapped on my genome – Starting with chromosome 1. The first column is the markers name, the second the chromosome number, third its position number and fourth the base-pair that defines it. This is repeated four times. SELF PORTRAIT In his first ever solo show – SELF ...
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Tracing Mobility: Cartography and Migration in Networked Space – Nottingham
Robin Bhattacharya presented parts of The Robin Genome Project at the Symposium Tracing Mobility: Cartography and Migration in Networked Space at Nottingham Contemporary on Panel 4 - Radical Cartography: Charting Empires’ Fall Part 1 – go to position 40:30 for presentation by Robin Bhattacharya Part 2: Introduction (chair: Mushon Zer-Aviv) Mushon Zer-Aviv Heath Bunting Jean-Baptiste Naudy (Société Réaliste) ...
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therobingenome.com – New Website
SELF PORTRAIT – The Robin Genome Project now has its own new website at: www.therobingenome.com
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DNA Portrait
Today I received a digital file of my DNA Portrait by DNA11. Color Selection: Infrared Original picture: DNA Portrait for one person 36″ X 54″ (92cm X 138cm) It is a visual representation of some 8 STRs sequenced of the genome of Robin Bhattacharya.
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12 STRs mapped
12 Short Tandem Repeats mapped on genome of Robin Bhattacharya Process update: These are the first results – courtesy of National Geographic – of my genome mapping. 12 STRs have been identified at certain locations (mapped) on the DNA sequence. More results will follow and together make up the evolving SELF PORTRAIT…
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On Cosmopolitanism
“Cosmopolitanism is today one of the most important ways of making sense of the contemporary world” (Delanty, 2009) Assignment for Course: Contemporary Social Thought – London School of Economics and Political Science Abstract: Cosmopolitanism, as in the above quote by Gerard Delanty, is indeed the dominant way of theorizing a contemporary consciousness of global reach. ...
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SELF PORTRAIT
SELF PORTRAIT is a multi-disciplinary project combining sociology of bioscience with identity expression through art. Its aim is to examine population categorisations and classifications currently applied in bioscience, with a focus on ‘mixed-race’, ’other’ or similar designations inferring a post-colonial, multicultural identity. To that end the genome of the artist – Robin Bhattacharya – is ...
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raising the jolly roger on lake zürich*
*Lately I’ve been reading ‘The Many-Headed Hydra’ by Linnebaugh and Reddicker. And today an article my father sent me, from the NZZ of 29 June 2009 entitled ‘Die Fortschreibung einer Legende’ by Michael Kempe… also about piracy. Additionally, last sunday the pirate party of Switzerland was founded in Zürich – even though ‘true’ pirates naturally ...
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Melancholia
Melancholia – “Is the concept of ‘melancholia’ helpful for understanding postcoloniality?” Contents: A Brief History of ‘Melancholia’ Melancholia in Sociology Mitscherlich’s Melancholia of Germany Gilroy’s Melancholia of Post-Colonial Britain Butler’s Melancholia of Freud Melancholic Postcoloniality Bengali Hindus in Berne Germany’s Next Topmodel by Heidi Klum Conclusion: Varying uses of Melancholia – Melancholia everywhere? Written for ...