For a moment, the program changes and expands to another means of knowledge outside of the psycho-social interplay of humans, beyond the myopic focus of the human configuration of body and consciousness... to the microbiological level. Mitosis and Space is an audio-visual animation evocative of the inner workings in cells and biological processes like mitosis- a kind of biological abstraction. The human body has been compared to a machine and the mind to a complex computer. These imaginings are part of a cyborg mirror fantasy-fetish, projected onto technology and forming around the boundaries of the subject. We long to synthesize our technology with the biological. Machines and computers bend to uncover our desires for their biological metaphors- replication, mutation, variability, complexity, generative and genealogical network functions beg to be technological and feed into mechanical stillbirth. Forms of cultural expression drift away from the ideology of the machine and into the realm of biological- a process that embodies systems of variability and process. These means move beyond the standard iconography or indexing of the human form and consciousness and become the performance of real-time cybernetic replicant methodologies- transcriptive, mutating and evolving, inspired from deep within the parameters of the body. The flux of replicating ideas finds ever more expression in the medium of repetition, such as the swarm, a cellular swath of memetic complexity. As notions of the mechanical, digital and informational explore the biologic in synthetic life, fantasies of the technological are transformed into the organic. Desire forms in the animation science, a clonal realm of permeation, relation, exchange, systemic process, connection and coupling, etc., evoking 16mm scientific films in grade school, documentaries and views beneath the microscope. N_DREW (aka Andrew Bucksbarg) Less