Art is about creating a new vision of the world or designing a new object to wow the world.  The creation of art and the updates in biotech in respect to genetically modified organisms (GMO'S) are developing in the same direction; augmenting reality to create art.

Genetically modified organisms are created by scientists by designing hybrids of already existing foods and mixing genes to forge their masterpiece, much like artists use falsities and reality to make their own masterpiece.  GMO's are also developed to make foods healthier or tastier.

Moving past GMO's, scientist have begun to mess with human genes and are trying to create a way to "pick and choose" genes to create a human.  The same idea of making food healthier/tastier is the basis of changing human chromosome patterns to yield more attractive and medically-sound hybrids.


The intension of the genetic engineering biotechnology project is in good heart as to create a new generation of healthy, longer-living people.  However, the act of messing with the body to create this "art" is under moral question.  How far will this go?  To begin, it will be only the wealthiest and most daring of families who will be able to give their future children's genes up to the "artists."

Books and movies have illustrated how messing with human genes can cause catastrophe and disease.  In 28 Days Later, the main character slips into a coma just before a mutenigenetic plague takes over his country.  He wakes up 28 days after the population has become zombie-like as a result of human genetic engineering.  

For better or worse, messing with the genetics of either humans, animals, or food has become a new easel that scientists work on to create new hybrids.

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