Od biologického kybertextu ku genetickej poézii
From Biological Cybertext to Genetic Poetry

Summary/Abstract: The goal of this study is to show that biological texts are not „texts“ only in a metaphorical sense, but in a full post-Lotmanian meaning of this term within literary studies. Genetic text written in DNA code is not a biological parallel to printed books, but rather a cybertext in the sense of Aarseth’s definition of ergodic literature. The cybertextual feature of living cells creates a space for the creation of new forms of remediation of literary works within biomedia. It opens new horizons for a literary work and generates new literary forms, such as genetic poetry. First, we show how biological texts fulfil the criteria of Aarseth’s cybertext definition, then we demonstrate the process of the remediation of literary texts into biomedia on the examples of the authors Wong, Davis, Kac and Bök.

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