Event Description
How can genetically-incorporated art examine, highlight, and challenge existing social constructs such as the formation of racial identity? This Friday Forum will explore this question, focusing on the intersection between art and genetics. Panelists will discuss a unique process created to use melanin from genetically-modified bacteria to develop images. This process of screen printing with melanin raises questions about how race is ascribed, its meaning, and connection to something as arbitrary as pigment.
Event Information:
Free and open to the public; registration required. For more information, please visit the event webpage.
Hosted by the Center for ELSI Resources and Analysis at Columbia University as part of the ELSI Friday Forum series.