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BIONONYMOUS GUIDE - HEATHER DEWEY-HAGBORG
As part of Futurs non conformes. #2 Passages à l'acte
From 01 October 2016 to 30 April 2017
Biononymous Guide by Heather Dewey-Hagborg is part of the project “Futurs non conformes. #2 Passages à l’acte” for the Jeu de Paume virtual space.
Biological surveillance is the means by which biological science is used to track, monitor, analyze, and turn bodies into data. It is the extraction of DNA and microbes from our skin, nails, hair and body fluids. It is the analysis of identifying body parts like faces, fingerprints and irises. It is the tracking of life itself by body heat, pulse, perspiration, and involuntary movement. It is the vulnerability we each face every day by the very situation of being human, by simply having a body. Biononymous fosters molecular resistance through the creation of a community to openly discuss, research, and develop potential solutions through art, science, technology, policy, and theory.
Heather Dewey-Hagborg
Heather Dewey-Hagborg has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Bienniale, the New Museum, and PS1 MOMA. Her work has been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to TED and Wired. She is an Assistant Professor of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a 2016 Creative Capital award grantee in the area of Emerging Fields.