The Signal and the Noise - Storyboard

Commissioned by Animate Projects and funded by a Wellcome Trust Large Arts Award, <i>The Signal and the Noise</i> was developed during collaborative research with biomedical scientist Dr Darren Logan at Sanger Institute, Cambridge. In the film I address the following question: how can I produce a Sci/Art work that moves beyond data visualisation and employs fiction as an operational tool that enhances the collaborative process, brings recent developments in genetic technologies into view and generates discussion and debate amongst diverse audiences?<br>This item contains the initial storyboard.<br>During this time I developed a science fictional script further in collaboration with Dr Logan, the script particularly focused on the technologies and tools used in his research and began to think about the parallels between genetic coding and computer coding, and the analysis of code. We began to visualize how developments such as Optogentics and CRISPR could extend these parallel conditions, with CRISPR allowing scientists to edit lines of DNA and Optogenetics allowing scientists to influence behavior by using colored lights that are directed at neurons in the brain. This was formalised in a storyboard.<br><b>Images courtesy of Charlie Tweed.</b><b>Used with permission. </b>

本作品《信号与噪声》（*The Signal and the Noise*）由Animate Projects委托制作，并获惠康信托基金会（Wellcome Trust）大型艺术奖项资助，其开发过程与剑桥桑格研究所（Sanger Institute）的生物医学科学家达伦·洛根博士（Dr Darren Logan）开展了合作研究。在该影像作品中，我探讨了如下问题：如何创作超越数据可视化范畴的科学艺术（Sci/Art）作品，将虚构叙事作为一种实操性工具，以优化合作研究流程、展现基因技术的最新进展，并促成不同受众群体间的讨论与思辨？
本数据集包含初始分镜脚本。
在此期间，我与洛根博士进一步合作完善了科幻剧本，该剧本聚焦于其研究中使用的技术与工具，并开始思考基因编码与计算机编码之间的共通性，以及代码分析相关议题。我们进一步构想了光遗传学（Optogenetics）与CRISPR等技术进展如何拓展这类共通关系：CRISPR可帮助科学家编辑DNA序列，而光遗传学则可通过向大脑神经元投射特定颜色光线来调控生物行为。相关构想最终被整理为正式分镜脚本。
**图片由查理·特威德（Charlie Tweed）提供。** **已获授权使用。**