COMMIE GIRL Vol. 8 No. 40 / OCWEEKLY.COM / 6-12 June 2003
by Rebecca Schoenkopf
Note: the following appeared as an item in the "Commie Girl" column
"My girl and I had to get gone. We had sciencey smart people to see!
In the house were Laguna Art Museum curator Tyler Stallings and artist Naida Osline, and the program featured a credit for 'rat brain sounds.' Reading Frankenstein at UC Irvine's Beall Center for Art and Technology had to be good.
And mostly, it was! The show told the story of Mary Shelley—but Shelley as a scientist whirling around in a lab coat like she's doing the hokey-pokey. Her Adam is virtual ... and he growls a whole bunch of angsty stuff about cognition before he starts killing kids at their computers to protest his lack of a bride.... [it was] really smart and cool rat brain sounds! Appearances by a real life stem-cell-researchin' neurobiologist!"