{"id":4285,"date":"2021-03-13T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2021-03-13T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T15:27:08","slug":"marcella-faria-at-the-stellenbosch-institute-for-advanced-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=4285","title":{"rendered":"Marcella Faria at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Marcella Faria, Dactyl Foundation art-science researcher, began a fellowship at SIAS in Stellenbosch, South Africa this month. Her project,\u00a0 Cell stories: how key are the words?<\/a> investigates connections between cell biology and literary forms.<\/p>\n

While at STIAS, Faria will identify potential overlaps between \u2018cell biology terms\u2019, historical facts and literary pieces of the last century. Her hypothesis is that by mapping the common metaphors, a narrative will emerge \u201cstarting with borders and identity, progressing into contact and recognition, and eventually developing into connection and networking.\u201d She will also investigate the extent to which the history of the term \u2018cell\u2019 grasps essential features and mechanisms of life itself.<\/p>\n

She notes that biology and language are complex systems in which the emerging properties have to do with the organisation of the parts. Both systems are based on arbitrary codes that produce selective meaning. Despite the natural hierarchies and repetitions, the systems are not predictable with their behaviour adapting to context by different connections and feedback loops due to the undetermined nature of semiosis itself.<\/p>\n

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