[INTERVIEW] Media artist's own DNA breathes new life into digital landscape paintings Posted : 2021-07-14 09:09 By Park Han-sol What exactly did media artist Lee Lee-nam need in order to give life to a 6.8-meter-high digital waterfall roaring down a wall of the Savina Museum? A high-functioning computer, projector and two strands of his own hair. In his piece, "Waterfall Turned into a Poem," what looks like a shower of water droplets is, upon closer inspection, revealed to be a stream of the letters of the alphabet, A, T, C and G. The tiny, white letters raining down in fact represent the four chemical bases that make up human DNA molecules: adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G). But they are not just from any human. They derive directly from the artist's own genetic code, extracted from his strands of hair at the G+FLAS Life Sciences biotech lab at Seoul National University.