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The Backup Plan

The Backup Plan

著者： Mél Hogan & co.
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The Backup Plan is a podcast series that traces an emerging technology that promises to store infinitely more data at minimal environmental cost. It’s a technology as mysterious and miraculous as it is mundane; as molecular as it is massive. That technology is DNA.


This podcast features conversations with scientists, scholars, industry specialists, archivists, and artists that explore the past, present, and future of data storage, its environmental impacts, and the science behind DNA-based data storage. We hear from companies that are on the forefront of developing this new technology and how they envisage the future of data infrastructures from storage to computing, and archivists who may use DNA-based data storage in the future. We also chat with an artist who creates alternative data imaginaries to critique the political, affective, and environmental dimensions of big tech.


This project is part of Genomic Media, a research project funded by a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant (2021-2026), led by Dr. Mél Hogan (PI) and Deb Verhoeven (co-I), in collaboration with scholars, scientists, industry specialists, archivists, and artists. We explore, explain, and expose DNA-based data storage by tracking and documenting the legacies of genetics/genomics sciences and their various applications, in parallel with the advent of computation, internet infrastructure, binary code and their discourses.


Social Science and Humanities Research Council - Insight Grant “Genomic Media: Tracking Sociotechnical Imaginaries of DNA Data Storage”


Full transcripts available here (PDF).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vghkdPHAQcCiDc5d3Pb_9-MCLfsva8Rd/view?usp=drive_link


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Mél Hogan

Primary Investigator (SSHRC Insight Project Grant, 2021-26)

Project Conception, Direction, Producer & Podcast Host


Deb Verhoeven

Co-Investigator (SSHRC Insight Project Grant)

Co-Producer & Podcast Host


Madeleine Mendell

Project Collaborator & Podcast Co-Host


Naomi Okabe

Podcast Project Manager & Editor


Brandon Hocura

Sound Mastering


Scott Gailey

Sound Design


Kyle Topping

Podcast Cover Artwork


Hollis A. Brown

Researcher and Text Editor



Guests

Steven M. Gonzalez

Linda Tadic

Jeff Nivala

Siraj Nour ElAhmadi

Dave Turek

Stéphane Lemaire

Richard Pon

Madeleine Mendell

Kyriaki Goni

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Mél Hogan 社会科学 科学
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  • Conclusion: Conversation with Mél Hogan, Deb Verhoeven, Madeleine Mendell

    Conclusion: Conversation with Mél Hogan, Deb Verhoeven, Madeleine Mendell
    2026/07/17

    CONCLUSION: Conversation with Mél Hogan, Deb Verhoeven, Madeleine Mendell


    The hosts reflect on the project and what it means to store data in perpetuity.


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    33 分
  • Growing a Data Garden with Kyriaki Goni (Artist)

    Growing a Data Garden with Kyriaki Goni (Artist)
    2026/07/17

    EPISODE 9: Growing a Data Garden with Kyriaki Goni (Artist)


    In this episode, we have a conversation with artist Kyriaki Goni, who imagines DNA-based data storage futures. Together we reflect on alternatives to current day big tech oligopolies. We recorded this conversation in September of 2023.


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    A way of resisting (Athens Data Garden), 2020

    (https://kyriakigoni.com/projects/data-garden)


    The Mountain Islands Shall Mourn us Eternally (Dolomites Data Garden), 2022

    (https://kyriakigoni.com/projects/the-mountain-islands-shall-mourn-us-eternally)


    “Imagine storing all the world's archives in a box of seeds: As our appetite for data soars, Karin Ljubic Fister is pioneering a surprising storage facility with potential to grow” (https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22930560-400-imagine-storing-all-the-worlds-archives-in-a-box-of-seeds/)


    “A French Teenager Turned the Bible and Quran into DNA and Injected Them into His Body” (https://www.livescience.com/64388-boy-encoded-and-injected-dna-bible-quran.html)


    “Massive Attack are releasing an album in a new format: DNA”

    https://www.wired.com/story/massive-attack-mezzanine-dna-album/



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    35 分
  • DNA Aesthetics with Madeleine Mendell (Media Archivist)

    DNA Aesthetics with Madeleine Mendell (Media Archivist)
    2026/07/17

    EPISODE 8: DNA Aesthetics with Madeleine Mendell (Media Archivist)


    In this episode, we chat with media archivist, Madeleine Mendell, about the deeper social narratives and aesthetic implications of using DNA as a storage medium. We recorded this conversation in September of 2023.


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    “Harvard scientists pioneer storage of video inside DNA” (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/12/scientists-pioneer-a-new-revolution-in-biology-by-embeding-film-on-dna)


    “NFSA preserves Cathy Freeman's Olympic win on DNA”

    (https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/item/nfsa-preserves-cathy-freemans-olympic-win-dna)


    Arch Mission Foundation (https://www.archmission.org/)


    Joe Davis “Microvenus” (https://clotmag.com/biomedia/joe-davis)



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    35 分
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