Does Transgenic Human Production Take into Account the Effect of Aesthetics on the Long Term Ecological Effects of GMO Baby Design?

• In Event: Shaping the Art/Science Field: A Preview of the Handbook for Art, Science & Technology Studies - II

Abstract

What can an understanding of the arts bring to human design? The history of art may finally come to some use for humanity, through fertility brokers and other replicant applications! However, the aesthetic hazards of breeding without a proper understanding of Western culture and our shared artistic heritage must be taken into account. The arts represent a great asset for IGM design and a great way to insure that the future isn’t born looking dull, retrograde, healthy-ish and a bit too sketchy. Without a firm grasp of Art History, our cloned denizens may not represent our national and international goals as U.S. food and drug producers and consumers. The admixture of global interspecies variety through genetic engineering and the cloning of spectacular hereditary cascades should only be approved through an aesthetic advisory commission made up of artists, art historians and off-the-locus aesthetics specialists. The future of style and the avoidance of our populous birthing any aesthetic hazards are dependent on collaboration between new reproductive biotechnology and the Arts.

Author

• Adam Zaretsky, NADLinc