NYT Explores Works Banned from Guangzhou Triennial

December 14th, 2018

A group of artworks exploring artificial intelligence and the human genome have been banned in China, and barred from exhibition in the Guangzhou Triennial. “The news is really filled with concern about the gene editing of babies,” says Heather Dewey-Hagborg, an American artist whose work “T3511” was among those pulled from the show. “It definitely seems like a moment where I can imagine that art or any kind of content that deals with biotechnological futures and some of the vulnerabilities and the dark side of those futures might seem to be dangerous.”

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