Category art

Ancestry, art, genetics, Identities, language, opinion article, stories

Subjectivity, and a diagram’s ‘firstness’

The maternal side of M.’s family – M. is a fictional character who I’ve positioned in a Part 1 of this project, conducted before the DNA ancestry test result came through – had, in the near past, at least, stemmed from a hill tribe in S.E. Asia, a people who are often without citizenship.

Anabela Nunes
August 9, 2023

Ancestry, art, dialogue, genetics, language, science, stories

The Ancestry Traveller: Genetics and Identity Drawing Group – The difficulty of building individual stories based on scientific data and other observations

The Ancestry Traveller project is my second meeting with high-tech sequencing and reading genetic information. In my synthetic motherhood project, I have been co-working with a forensic lab to predict the future look of my potential offspring. Ancestry testing allows us to do something opposite, to read the past (at least to a certain extent).

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August 8, 2023

Ancestry, archeology, art, drawing, Genetic diversity, human origins, Identities

Unravelling the Genetic Mosaic: The Ancestry Traveller Workshops, Genetics and Identity Drawing Group

It's a fascinating creative opportunity being one of the 12 artists involved in the scientific and artistic aspects of the Ancestry Traveller workshops produced by the i3S team and Luisa Pereira, a Population Geneticist and the group leader on Genetic Diversity at the University of Porto.

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July 25, 2023