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Go Behind the Scenes to Watch How Heather Dewey-Hagborg Creates Portraits with Found DNA

June 25, 2013

Christopher Jobson

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Just a few weeks ago we covered the amazing 3D-printed portraits created by artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg, who uses genetic clues from found DNA to determine an estimation of what that person might look like. In this short documentary filmed by TED’s Kari Mulholland, we learn a lot more about what goes on behind the scenes as Dewey-Hagborg utilizes the facilities at Genspace in New York to create each of her DNA portraits.

 

 

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