Germ Theory The organism is the translation of information. Increasingly our presence is defined by the information we receive and transmit. Even as biological organisms we exchange information with an environment of other living and non-living organisms on a gross molecular and anatomical level. As such the location of ours is a plexus for input and output. There is an immaterial basis to the information our organism exchanges. We are as transparent as air, as weightless as space, as meaningless as sunlight, and as important as sound. Representations of a human datastream are made available for reproductive and entertainment purposes only. Cerro is infested, pregnant, swollen with information and colonized by other organisms. Unlike most people, Cerro is acutely aware of the conversations occurring beneath his skin. He acknowledges his role as a vessel and is disturbed by it, feeling he has become the shape of his infection. Cerro seeks to become cleansed, a simplification of life—a single cell—a human amoebae. Elaborate techniques of reduction have changed his shape and his composition. A unit of Emergency Medical Technicians is called to respond to the scene of a medical emergency. It is through these EMTs who are the narrators of the story that we meet Cerro, and we hear his story. Cerro, our protagonist, animate and at times inanimate, is shown integrating with his living space. The narrative of Cerro is revealed through the juxtaposition of these alternating scenarios. Our collaboration is an ongoing balancing of opposing forces. Typically the work forms by a process of exchange and debate. Ideas that are interesting and important to us are disclosed and compete for survival. The topics of interest most frequently involve biological, cultural and technological communication. The virus model is one in which the organism is inhabited. The consequence could be flagrant disease or a subtle alteration of homeostasis. The extent to which all of this exchange is information-code is one of the major characteristics of our past and current work. The domain of physical biology is rich in structures and dynamic systems that literally underlie the human ability to reason and interact with the world. These structures of life and their effect are in bi-directional communication with their environment. Intelligence is depicted through an immune system adapting to a current viral strain as plainly as one's ability to reason a map. Working together allows the discourse of our work to embody disagreement and contradiction along with the aesthetics of resolution.