Heather Dewey Hagborg- Stranger Visions

Heather Dewey Hagborg is an artist/scientist who collects found objects which have a high concentration of DNA on them (cigarette butts, etc.), sequences the DNA, and uses gene markers which she finds to create photorealistic sculptures based on what she can find in the DNA. 

http://deweyhagborg.com/strangervisions/portraits.html

For example, 

"Sample 4

MtDNA Haplogroup: T2b (Likely ancestry 25% European) 
SRY Gene: absent
Gender: Female
rs12913832: AA
Likely Eye Color: Brown
rs4648379: CT 
Slightly larger nose size
rs6548238: TT 
Slightly lower odds for obesity" 

I think that this art is really interesting because it mixes weird, not that beautiful, uncanny sculptures with the hard science. This highlights how little privacy we have, since she just found everything she used on the street, but I think that lack of privacy might be ok. 

She does this project in cities around the world to see how the populations differ.  Currently one of my favorite projects, and I like that it could be ongoing forever.