Heather dewey-hagborg biography
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Heather dewey-hagborg biography
Heather Dewey-Hagborg
American forensic artist
Heather Dewey-Hagborg (born June 4, 1982, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an information artist and bio-hacker.[1] She is best known for her project Stranger Visions, a series of portraits created from DNA she recovered from discarded items, such as hair, cigarettes and chewing gum while living in Brooklyn, New York.[2] From the extracted DNA, she determined gender, ethnicity and other factors and then used face-generating software and a 3D printer to create a speculative, algorithmically determined 3D portrait.
While critical of technology and surveillance, her work has also been noted as provocative in its lack of legal precedent.[3][4]
Education
Dr. Dewey-Hagborg is an information and bio artist whose works explore the intersection between art and science.[5] As a student in the Information Arts program at Bennington College,[6] she participated in computer scie