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Genetology<\/strong> (\\gene*tol”o*gy\\) Eschatology<\/strong><\/font> (\\es`cha*tol”o*gy\\) Genetology or science of first things is a self invented science first used by J. Bertani in his publication Genetology, or, The reproduction of human beauty & excellence, considered (1864)<\/em>, creating an opposition for the existing dominant\u00a0 science of last things, Eschatology. Genetology\u2019s main area of research is our fascination with time and its consequences: How will we look back to the past in the future? What will be left over from the present? What is ‘new’ or ‘first’ in the future?<\/p>\n This quest brings me as close to science as well as art, like \u2018The origin of Life Remake\u2019 of Stanley Miller and Harold Urey in 1953, where they tried to recreate life with the same basic ingredients present 3,5 billion years ago, or the discovery of the \u2018Interplanetary Super Highway\u2019, fluctuating energy lanes, during the recent \u2018Genesis\u2019 mission making it possible to travel much faster through space without additional fuel or external impulse. The cosmological stepmother of the black holes. This website functions as an online sketchbook on which I put my own work in the context of other artworks, events in history, scientific discoveries, intellectual discourse and philosophical explorations. Slowly I’m trying to define and understand Genetology. In 2009 I started with a large publication<\/a> about my Genetologic Research, focussing on a different existing science in every quire and putting it in relation to Genetology. For every new page that is published, a text is written by a different author, relating to the topic’.<\/p>\n
\nthe science of first things
\n\u2022 noun<\/strong> the part of theology and philosophy concerned with birth, origin, and destiny. First used in English around 1864.
\n\u2014 DERIVATIVES genetological adjective genetologist noun.
\n\u2014 ORIGIN from Latin genus<\/em> (genetive generis<\/a><\/em>) \u2018origin\u2019.<\/p>\n
\nthe science of last things
\n\u2022 noun<\/strong> the part of theology and philosophy concerned with death, judgement, and destiny. First used in English around 1550.
\n\u2014 DERIVATIVES eschatological adjective eschatologist noun.
\n\u2014 ORIGIN from Greek eskhatos<\/em> \u2018last\u2019.<\/p>\n
\nThe sheep on formadehyde solution of Damien Hirst (\u2018Away from the Flock\u2019), the modern archaeology of Mark Dion (\u2018New England Digs\u2019), the peeled of trees of Guiseppe Penone (\u2018Tree Door\u2019) or \u2018I Like America And America Likes Me\u2019, the performance of Joseph Beuys of 1974 in which he lived in a cage for five days in the Rene Black Galley in New York together with a wild coyote: one by one works that feel the pulse of time and balance between the temporary and the timeless.
\nIn the scientific world Genetology is currently used to discribe the fusion between Genetics and Genealogy. Or, how can we manipulate the DNA of our future generations? How can we (re)write history?<\/p>\n