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DNA Collected from Found Objects

Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 5:36 pm
by Blaidd Drwg
Used to create portraits


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It’s a cold January day and you’re walking down a street in Brooklyn gnawing on a piece of gum that just passed the point of flavorful into the realm of tastelessness. In a hurry, you spit it on the ground without a second thought and continue about your day. Hours later a mysterious woman arrives and surreptitiously collects the sticky gum from the sidewalk and drops it into a clear plastic bag which she carefully labels. Flash forward a month later: you’re walking through an art gallery, and there, mounted on the wall, is a familiar face staring back at you. Astonishingly (or terrifyingly) it’s a 3D print of your face generated from the DNA you left behind on that random piece of gum that now appears in a petri dish just below the portrait. A few years ago this would seem like science fiction, the stuff of films like Gattaca, but to information artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg it’s how she makes her artwork here in 2013.
The resulting portraits are bizarre approximations of anonymous people who unknowingly left their genetic material on a random city street. So how accurate are the faces created from this genetic experiment? The artist likes to say they have a “family resemblance” and no, unlike the scenario depicted above, a person has never recognized themselves in any of her exhibitions. Yet. There are some things such as age which are virtually impossible to determine from DNA alone, so Dewey-Hagborg casts each portrait as if the person were around 25 years of age.

Re: DNA Collected from Found Objects

Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 6:01 pm
by Kazuya Mishima
From DNA taken from Kim Kardashian's vagina.

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Re: DNA Collected from Found Objects

Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 6:37 pm
by Bob Wildes
Damn BD. What kind of sites do you frequent to discover this sort of stuff?

Re: DNA Collected from Found Objects

Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:10 pm
by Blaidd Drwg
Bob Wildes wrote:Damn BD. What kind of sites do you frequent to discover this sort of stuff?
I recently found out the internet has more than porn on it....still in the honeymoon period.

Re: DNA Collected from Found Objects

Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 9:45 pm
by CharlieBob
link?

Re: DNA Collected from Found Objects

Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 10:39 pm
by Holland Oates
I saw this on IHeartChaos.Com

Re: DNA Collected from Found Objects

Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 10:43 pm
by Blaidd Drwg

Re: DNA Collected from Found Objects

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 12:43 am
by Protobuilder
Blaidd Drwg wrote:
Bob Wildes wrote:Damn BD. What kind of sites do you frequent to discover this sort of stuff?
I recently found out the internet has more than porn on it....still in the honeymoon period.
What?