WHAT IF...The health of the nation could be analysed from spit, snot and stomach bile?
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Native Commodities, 2009 by Will Carey exhibited at the WHAT IF... Exhibition in the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin in 2009.
As genome technologies promote the open sourcing of the human body, could such data participation one day be extended into other forms of biological manufacture? Synthetic biology and nanotechnologies have made it possible to reprogramme cells, but would we be prepared to consider using our bodies to do this? This project is a preliminary study into the tolerable limits of sharing, manufacturing and interacting with biological data from our bodies. The aesthetics of three spittoons for capturing bodily fluid have been explored.
