Timer for clock

var SECOND = 1000; // the number of milliseconds in a second

var MINUTE = SECOND * 60; // the number of milliseconds in a minute

var HOUR = MINUTE * 60; // the number of milliseconds in an hour

var DAY = HOUR * 24; // the number of milliseconds in a day

var WEEK = DAY * 7; // the number of milliseconds in a week

var YEAR = WEEK * 52; //the number of milliseconds in a year

totalletters = 3300000000;

timeperletter = 1;

dtnow = new Date();

dtFinish = new Date(2005,5,9);

dtFinish.setSeconds( dtFinish.getSeconds() + (totalletters * timeperletter));

"OPEN SOURCE: code made from code made from blood represented by code"

The DNA clock is playing with the idea of a code clock, a system within a system. The clock, is a code for life that is represent by time. In fact to count or watch all the 3.3 billion letters will take one hundred and four years disclosing the 'meaning of life' in the process. By sitting in the gallery for one hundred and four years you will also have an exact replica of Stanza DNA and the source code to copy the artist via duplication (clone). Alternatively you can buy my DNA which will be auctioned on Ebay soon.

The original concept and intention as well as being developed as an artwork was to make a business. In short a database placed online would require users to submit a copy of their DNA. Once the first 100,000 subscriptions had been made then an IPO, an initial public offering would be made. The company formed on the stock market would exploit any patents, intellectual property and any derivable income would be shared among the subscribed user group. The shareholders in this company would be the subscribers who have placed their DNA source code. This project was to counter the exploitation of DNA by large corporations who do now exploit the right to this source code, a code that should be equally beneficial to all. This database is still in progress and further funds and financial backers are needed. This concept is copyright / and left. Stanza

The DNA is an operating system consists of 3.3 billion bases that is the letters ACTG. There are also the chromosomes and either the X or Y depending on if you are male or female. My thinking is if you remove parts of the operating system then you stop working. Indeed part of any OS consists of objects, functions or blocks of code that do specific jobs but also relate tasks to the whole. This idea is expanded when we consider that some of the code can actually change, evolve or shifts over time. An interesting term that relates to a huge chunk of the code sequence; in fact more than 95 percent of all DNA, was called "Junk DNA" by molecular biologists, because they were unable to ascribe any function to it. However the issue here is that the function of the code is not yet properly understood. What does the function do within the operating system?

Code represented by code and taken from blood.