HER

HER is a two channel generative sound installation that simulates the bonding of a HER2 receptor and the breast cancer treatment, Herceptin. With computer algorithms, the tactics of immune targeted therapy are sonified. This sound installation uses architectural data that describes the bond between an over-expressed protein that regulates cell death and a molecule designed to alleviate the reproduction of these cancerous cells. The purpose of this art is to provide audiences with a metaphorical and auditory opportunity to experience an idea that, without knowing the languages of science, is often difficult to understand. In the interest of mediating a complex system, the purpose of this work is not to provide technical literacies but to aesthetically and therapeutically contextualize a process that many are surviving.