Project One: Initial
Ideas
For the first project wanted to do something related to
the Human Genome Project; more particularly, its great potential for medicine
and its potential for abuse. For my first composition, I wanted to take a young
happy couple and position them walking towards a Build-A-Bear. The sign will be
altered to read; “Build-A-Baby”. The stuffed animals in the displays on the
side will be replaces with adverts for a service that allows couples to
predetermine how their child will appear phenotypically (physically). Ex. “New Luxury Eye Color”, or “Over two
hundred hair traits to choose from”. If you could choose exactly how your
future child (if any) would look, down to the eye color, would you alter it or
leave it be? My other image would depict some of the more positive implications
of genetic research.
Let’s pretend you’re getting ready to have a child, and
the doctor discovers that there’s a 90% chance your kid is going to have this
crazy, horrible condition; but in this world medicine can prevent that gene
from expressing itself before the kid is even born. If you thought the above
situation was concerning, do you feel differently about this one? Those
questions are what I’m trying to get people to ask themselves. To show this, I
was thinking about using a person sitting at a desk looking at,
“______________’s disease breakdown. The person’s head would obscure their name
from the title. On the screen would be a list of medical conditions and their
likelihood of being expressed. On the other side of the screen would be a
button that said, “remove from genome”. Located at the top right of the screen
would be shopping cart button the option to “apply insurance”
Bibliography
Colins, Francis S.
“A Vision for the Future of Genomic Research.” National Human Genomic
Research Institute, 24 Apr. 2003.
Kirkpatrick, Jesse, and Andrew
Light. “The Great Potential - and Great Risks - of Gene Editing.” The
Washington Post, WP Company, 11 Dec. 2015,
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-great-potential--and-great-risks--of-gene-editing/2015/12/11/ea1607a4-9a09-11e5-8917-653b65c809eb_story.html?utm_term=.fd301888d4c1.
Watson, James D. “The Human
Genome Project: Past, Present, and Future.” Http://Go.galegroup.com/Ps/I.do?Id=GALE%7CA8989659&Sid=GoogleScholar&v=2.1&It=r&Linkaccess=Fulltext&Issn=00368075&p=AONE&Sw=w&AuthCount=1&u=loui21685&SelfRedirect=True,
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 6ADAD
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