controversial gesture, in the very spirit of the best "bio art" movement, [which] addresses the abyss of bio manipulation and bioethical aspects. Both of them are just exposed and hacked, proving once more that (as Yukiko Shikata notes), natural codes have a lot in common with software, and so personally re-writing and releasing information becomes a powerful and challenging statement.

This action should ask questions about the state of intellectual property, ownership and copyright issues surrounding the bio-hacking and bio-bending of plants. Our goal is to make these flowers available as shared Common Flowers and to create the free spaces, where they can grow and prosper, in a Flower Commons.

The next logical step is to deliberately introduce (and in a poetic sense: set free) the GM carnations in the environment, with the goal of establishing a free and feral population of Common Flowers at certain, shared loci - to create Flower Commons.

Their first project, Biopresence, manifested the production possibility of "living memorials" by extracting human DNA and storing it in the DNA of trees. It was a provocative display of social, technical and ethical issues about biotechnology that concern the boundary between man and plant, and such things as death, identitiy and the memory of the human individuals.