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Futuristic floral artists
Are they 'open source' advocates, biopirates, or artists? "If more and more of the flowers we buy at florist are cloned and if food is less and less spottable as genetically manipulated, we are facing times when the intervention with the dna of different living organisms will be considered as pop culture", say the folks at Neural, about the Common Flowers project. Claiming to be artists, Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel of Common Flowers use tissue culture to bring cut flowers "back to life again, planting them into the environment, and then making them a Common." We're talking about the GM 'Moondust' blue carnation.