Rapoport’s earliest Web Art work preserved in its original form, The Transgenic Bagel explores gene-splicing technology using the story of Noah. Participants select a Biblical figure and are assigned a trait extracted from mythological animals from Noah’s “Virtual Ark.” The genes for the trait are then injected into a bagel, and the participant is asked “Will you eat the Transgenic Bagel?”
This work was later reimagined and published as an elaborate, gamelike, interactive art book, The Transgenic Bagel (1997).
In 2008, Rapoport published higgledy-piggledy: The Transgenic Bagel Redux on her Artblog.
