1. Heather Dewey-Hagborg 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.
19 Facts About Heather Dewey-Hagborg
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Dr Dewey-Hagborg is an information and bio artist whose works explore the intersection between art and science.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg developed an autonomous face categorizing and generating software program which recognized facial components, made comparisons and adjustments, and produced unique representations of the human face through mass exposure to facial images.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg continued her education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and graduated with a PhD in electronic arts in 2016.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg worked as a teaching assistant at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an adjunct professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, an adjunct professor at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and taught art and technology studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg's courses include Communication and Technology, and Understanding Interactive Media, and Bioart Practices.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg's Totem was a site-specific multimedia sculpture characterizing her earlier work.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg began this project questioning how much information could be understood about a person using genetic detritus left behind by strangers in New York City.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg began the process of extracting DNA from the samples she collected.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg used 23andMe, a DNA analysis service, for Stranger Visions.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg then takes these traits, as many as 50, and enters them into a face-generating program to configure the 3-D portraits.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg reworked the program to generate faces instead of just recognizing facial features.
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One scientist and one gallery, according to Heather Dewey-Hagborg, turned down her proposal fearing the project would "cause a fright" among people.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg likens her work to that of a sketch artist.
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In 2013, Heather Dewey-Hagborg was contacted by an assistant medical examiner in Delaware, as a result of her work with Stranger Visions.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg agreed to be an adviser to assist with the case.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg created Probably Chelsea, 30 portraits based on Manning's maternal DNA, their variances in skin color and features presents the malleability of DNA data, and Radical Love, two portraits out of many that Manning selected because they best conveyed her appearance at the time of her gender transition within maximum security prison, which did not allow photography.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg's Xeno in Vivo was a live multimedia opera performance.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg's work has been exhibited at The Monitor Digital Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, PS1 MoMA, Long Island City, New York, the New York Public Library in New York City, the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, the UTS Gallery in Sydney, Australia, Wei-Ling Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Jaaga Art and Technology Center in Bangalore, India, the Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria.