Bought by
Verbeke Foundation
for €1100
Selling an
artist’s full
genome: 380 gb
of personal
dna data.
First step: generating blood samples.
The result: three vials of blood.
Isolating DNA from blood sample.
In front of the HiSeq DNA sequencer, which takes two weeks to sequence a full genome.
In ErasmusMC’s data center: the hardware responsible for storing and analysing DNA data.
At ErasmusMC’s Genetic Lab where bio-information scientists study the data.
Transferring 380gb of DNA data from ErasmusMC’s data center to the artist’s harddrive.
*** 28/09/2016: Cellout.me has been sold – bids will no longer be registered. ***
By placing a bid you are agreeing to buy Cellout.me for the offered price if you are the highest bidder when the auction closes. Each bid is verified, through personal contact, to ensure that it is authentic.
Buying Cellout.me means buying the whole artwork, which includes the server cabinet, the framed photographs + letters, the scratchpads and the website (including the domain name).
Cellout.me, and with it the artist’s DNA, should be seen as a unique work of art in the way it is sold, documented, maintained, exhibited and stored.