Who is Heather Dewey-Hagborg?

Heather Dewey-Hagborg (born June 4, 1982, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an information performer and bio-hacker. She is best known for her project Stranger Visions, a series of portraits created from DNA she recovered from discarded items, such as hair, cigarettes and chewing glue while busy in Brooklyn, New York. From the extracted DNA, she determined gender, ethnicity and supplementary factors and subsequently used face-generating software and a 3D printer to create a speculative, algorithmically Definite 3D portrait. While valuable of technology and surveillance, her play in has next been noted as provocative in its nonappearance of real precedent.