Grow Your Own…
Genetically engineered plants, computer-generated children and artistic prosthetics in this week’s look at the web
As unsettling as it is interesting, “Grow Your Own…” is celebrating the ultra-designed life of the future. The exhibition—on display until 19 January 2014 at Trinity College, Dublin—explores the art and science behind “synthetic biology,” an emerging approach to genetic engineering. To give you a sense of the new field, one project investigates life-saving organs that combine human, leech, eel and snake tissue, and another features a “transgenic-cloned mouse” with Elvis Presley’s DNA. Check out all the projects as well as the events running alongside the exhibition, including talks with experts in science, art and synthetic biology.
Via designindaba.com link opens in a new window
