Programming DNA

A team at UW has developed a programming language for chemistry which can be used to "program" how DNA molecules interact. They speculate this will make creating synthetic DNA easier to create, but will also allow programmers to "combine them [DNA] into a network that realizes, at the molecular level, an algorithm used in distributed control systems for achieving consensus between multiple agents." It's hard to think of a closer connection between the aesthetics of new media and interventions or control over life than what they're proposing!