{"id":26886,"date":"2023-11-10T23:34:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T00:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/?p=26886"},"modified":"2023-11-11T01:12:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T01:12:50","slug":"heather-dewey-hagborg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/heather-dewey-hagborg\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Dewey-Hagborg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heather Dewey-Hargborg, American artist and bio-hacker most knowned for the project Stranger Visions. Her recent work has been cesored to be showned in China. Ana Br\u00edgida for The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg<\/a> is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who is interested in art as research and critical practice. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project <\/span>Stranger Visions<\/span> in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (such as hair, cigarette butts, or chewed up gum) collected in public places.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, the Daejeon Biennale, and the Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale, the Van Abbemuseum, Transmediale and PS1 MOMA. Her work is held in public collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Wellcome Collection, and the New York Historical Society, among others, and has been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to Art Forum and Wired.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heather has a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a visiting assistant professor of Interactive Media at NYU Abu Dhabi, an artist fellow at\u00a0AI Now<\/a>, an Artist-in-Residence at the\u00a0Exploratorium<\/a>, and is an affiliate of\u00a0Data & Society<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is also a co-founder and co-curator of\u00a0REFRESH<\/a>, an inclusive and politically engaged collaborative platform at the intersection of Art, Science, and Technology.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n