Field Traces, by Bill Jones

{The following article, "Field Traces," by Bill Jones, first appeared in the Summer 2002 issue of Cabinet Magazine (Issue 7), published by Immaterial Incorporated, http://.www.immaterial.net Brooklyn, NY. Bill Jones is an artist who together with musician Ben Neill is represented by Sandra Gering Gallery, NYC. Their next exhibition will take place in March 2003; Jones is also a writer and was founder + editor of ArtByte: Magazine of Digital Culture}
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FIELD TRACES
Bill Jones
http://www.firstpulseprojects.net/Field_Traces.html

For the past five years, I've been working with Dr. Merrill Garnett, a biochemist who has spent three decades researching electrogenetics, the behavior of biological systems altered by substances that increase the flow of electrical charge to DNA.

The basis of Dr. Garnett's approach involves the postulation that there is a corollary genetic code of pulsed electromagnetic current that enables communication at the cellular level within a given organism. The coaxial liquid-crystal structure of DNA transmits and recieves energy and information by a procass known as flexo-electricity, the equivalent of the piezoelectricity that is produced by crystal oscillators in computers. Dr. Garnett theorizes that molecular nano-circuits, through which the corollary genetic mechanism transfers charge over great distances, induces a multi-cellular state, as well as being key to organized growth and development. Every cell has both an inward and outward current. The inward current builds up, and forms a metastable equilibrium involving multiple reactions. When the inward current reaches a certain level, outward current is forced to occcur. We see the visual evidence of this flux of energies in experiments and resulting photographs that show changes in form. In such images, DNA liquid crystals that normally look like small flowers explode outward into starburst-like structures when charged at the correct frequenc, expressing the energy field needed for cell maturation. During the life of an organism, this energy flux continually streams through its DNA in a numbre of axes of vibration – when the fluxes end, life ends.

Microscopy and microphotography of electro-active biological polymers charged with pulsed electro-magnetic fields trace those fields as the liquid crystalline polymers dry on the surface of a glass microscope slide. The microphotographs presented here show field traces mapping the change in structure and symmetry of DNA and prothrombin – the bio-polymer responsible for blood clotting that one preliminary model suggests might function as a kind of vascular "internet," facilitating communication with DNA – under the influence of a pulsed electro-magnetic field.


Images:
1)
Microphotograph of prothrombin dried on a glass slide. The fern-like fractyl structure of this biopolymer responsible for blodd clotting demonstrates its liquid crystallinity.


2)
Prothrombin is once again dried on a glass slide, but in this experiment the linear structure of transmission cables is formed by coating the prothrombin with the biological dialectric hyaluronic acid. The discovery of the electro-active nature of prothrombin and other biopolymers such as DNA suggests the possibility of a corollary genetic code and a "vascular internet."


Related material:
Electrogenetics: Biological Liquid Crystal Theory, Dr. Merrill Garnett; Garnett McKeen Medical Science Series No.1 (2001)
http://www.geocities.com/electrogenetics/Biological_Liquid_Crystal_Theory.html

X-Radiation Alteration of DNS Reductase in vitro, Dr. Merrill Garnett; Electrogenetics.com Abstract (2001)
http://www.geocities.com/electrogenetics/xradiation.html