SXSW 2017
Biopunk: Subverting Biopolitics
Description:
DNA is called the code of life but computational metaphors underestimate the impact of biopolitics, which reaches far beyond anything digital. Biases of today's culture are embedded in the wetware of tomorrow's genome editing and profiling. As the biotechnical gaze makes us increasingly visible we become categorized, branded by the norm, sifted into racialized and gendered identities.
Biopunk is our way to subvert biopolitics, to take our bio-determined future into our own hands. We will discuss bio-art and activism while revealing our own genetic secrets, and also that of some random strangers. Join us in genome-panic and bio-culture from paranoia to poetry, to make biopolitics our own.
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Takeaways
- What does my DNA say about me? And what does that have to do with race?
- Isn't biotech just another form of big data?
- Biopunk? I thought that was just a sci-fi genre?
Speakers
- Heather Dewey-Hagborg, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Simone Browne, The University of Texas at Austin
- Joerg Blumtritt, Datarella
Organizer
Joerg Blumtritt, CEO, Datarella
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