Artist takes DNA from gum + cigs found in public, creates portraits of users
| Naked big-titted theatre | 07/09/15 | | High-end codepig | 07/09/15 | | ivory laser beams | 07/09/15 | | Naked big-titted theatre | 07/09/15 | | Naked big-titted theatre | 07/09/15 | | High-end codepig | 07/09/15 | | Salmon Fluffy Telephone Hairy Legs | 07/09/15 | | domesticated dog poop parlor | 07/09/15 | | Razzle church | 07/09/15 | | frozen idiot | 07/09/15 | | Aqua Associate | 07/09/15 | | nighttime zippy faggot firefighter | 07/09/15 | | Naked big-titted theatre | 07/09/15 | | Beta hell gaming laptop | 07/09/15 | | Aqua Associate | 07/09/15 | | Naked big-titted theatre | 07/09/15 | | comical citrine pistol | 07/09/15 | | Naked big-titted theatre | 07/30/15 | | Naked big-titted theatre | 10/26/15 |
Poast new message in this thread
Date: July 9th, 2015 4:31 PM Author: Naked big-titted theatre
The 30-year-old PhD student, studying electronic arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, extracts DNA from each piece of evidence she collects, focusing on specific genomic regions from her samples. She then sequences these regions and enters this data into a computer program, which churns out a model of the face of the person who left the hair, fingernail, cigarette or gum behind.
It gets creepier.
From those facial models, she then produces actual sculptures using a 3D printer. When she shows the series, called “Stranger Visions,” she hangs the life-sized portraits, like life masks, on gallery walls. Oftentimes, beside a portrait, is a Victorian-style wooden box with various compartments holding the original sample, data about it and a photograph of where it was found.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/creepy-or-cool-portraits-derived-from-the-dna-in-hair-and-gum-found-in-public-places-50266864/
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2931037&forum_id=2#28292553) |
|
|