Jen Bervin: Source

In conjunction with Tufts University’s Silk Lab’s cutting-edge research on liquefied silk, Jen Bervin wrote a poem fabricated nanoscale in the form of a silk biosensor. The project stems from her belief that poems have work to do, and that reading such a biosensor inside the body is not a neutral context, but rather one pre-inscribed with concern about health and mortality, written in a material with a 5,000-year-old international history. The form of the poem strand is modeled on the filament deposition pattern that silkworms create when making their...