Digital Dna

Digital DNA is a public art sculpture commissioned by the Palo Alto Public Arts Commission for Lytton Plaza in Downtown Palo Alto, California. It was created by Adriana Varella and Nilton Malz and installed in 2005.^[1] The words have faded a bit over the years, but the City is pondering a restoration of it.

Circuit adjectives[edit]

The adjectives imbue the logic of the circuitry with the emotion and other political, social or behavioral adjectives. These phrase are written in a variety of languages such as Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, Russian, German, Arabic, Indy, Philippine, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew and binary representation. The color is noted to help identify the board. Duplicates are noted. A question mark denotes lines that have yet to be properly translated.

Dividing the egg into four quadrants according to the clock (looking from above), and listing top-to-bottom, the adjectives are, at noon (near the DIGITAL DNA title board): cooperative, ideological, timeless, programmed, globalizing, genetic, timeless, warfare

White unidentified script (akin to Korean)

• ar: التحكم (control) دوائر (circuits) (As in perhaps هندسة التحكم - control engineering) (on blue)
• ar: التفريق (differentiation? dispersing?) دوائر (on olive green)
• de: kontrolliert (controlling) (spelled kontrolliert aide?) kreisläufe
• fr: circuits masturbateur
• he: מעגל (circuit/circle) ם ללא (without) גבול (borders)
• he: גלובליזציה (globalization) מעגל
• ja: (逍 or 檤?) ? ? 化する (does it)の回路
• ja: 希望 (hope) の回路 (circuits)
• tl: Mga circuit na sumasakop (covering (?))

At 3 o'clock:

• isolating (repeat), globalizing (repeat), colonizing, borderless, artificial intelligence, mutating
• ar: الكتم (stuffiness?) دوائر
• de: serielle (serial, seriell) kreisläufe
• es: circuitos interactivos
• fr: circuits d'illusion
• fr: circuits sexuels
• ja: 全世界 ? の回路 (worldwide)
• ja: ロボット (robot) の回路
• ja: マスメディア (mass media) の回路 (circuit)
• ru: кругообороты (circuit) ru: молчанн?

At six o'clock:

• transcorporeal, identifying, reproductive, simulating, idealizing, political, short circuits, circuits of the system, circuits of hope
• unidentified cursive script?
• ar: ا?يالية (huh) دوائر (on dark yellow fabric)
• he: מעגל (circuit/circle) he:מלחמה (war)
• it: circuiti aleatori (random)
• ja: 力 (power, force) の回路
• ja: 遺伝子 (gene) の回路
• ja: ショート (short circuit) した (did) 回路
• ja: 希望 (hope) の回路
• sv: programmering kretslopp (cycle)
• ru: идеологпческне (see идеологический, ideological, ru:Идеология) ru:кругообороты (cycle)
• vi: đường dẫn (circuit, Mạch in) điện lực (electric power)

At 9 o'clock:

• hacking, transracial, nomad, globalizing (repeat), randomic, libertarian, isolating (repeat), biological, surveying
• ar: الئكتلدل ? (huh?) دوائر (on medium green, nar. vert.)
• ar: كنيسة (church?) دوائر (on light green, wide vert.)
• ar: مافها كن (Mavha?) (on medium green, nar. horiz.)
• ar: أمل|الأمل (hope) دوائر (spelled without the (lām + ʼalif) ligature)
• binary: these are ASCII values: 1000100 1001110 1000001 (DNA)
• es: circuitos imaginários
• it: circuiti it:anecoici (Anechoic chamber)
• ja: 遣 ? イムチ (or そ)の回路
• ja: 錯覚]] (illusion) ? にる の回路
• ja: 自爆]] (self-destruct) する (does it) の回路
• ko: 정치|정치적인 (politics) 회로 (circuit)
• pt: circuitos pt:vazios (empty or null)
• ru: кругообороты случай (chance) иостей ?
• vi: đường dẫn (circuit, Mạch in) bao quát (globalizing, Toàn cầu hóa)

There are several Arabic lines starting with: دوائر (services) ? Compare to ar:دوران (rotation) or ar:دائرة (circle), but spelled like دوائر (services?). The board colors are provided as a navigation aid.

Notes[edit]

External links[edit]

• http://www.adrianavarella.net/digital-dna