In the past couple of years, many biotechnological fantasies have become reality. An increasing amount of companies have emerged, that have begun to implement technologies dedicated to the publication and interpretation of genetic data. In the beginning of 2018, the MinION device was launched. This is a device that looks like a small USB stick. If you put a DNA sample in it, the device can sequence a large part of your genes in only two hours, and the cost for this are less than 1,000 euros. This makes it possible to reach our genetic profile extremely quickly and inexpensively. Another example is the company Parabon NanoLabs. This company actually launched a surface for creating facial reconstructions based on DNA material, found at a crime scene. The surface already collaborates with several police departments, in the U.S. and a similar surface identitas has emerged in Canada. Remember that artistic capacity to reflect on the implications of these techniques. It can do this by speculating about the future steps such developments might bring forwards. It speaks to our emotions and our expectations, but some artists or Bioartists, actually use these new technologies for public empowerment. They organize do-it-yourself workshops, in which people can learn to experiment with various bio-technologies. Bioart therefore, makes these techniques available for citizens. It allows them to become familiar with existing techniques and knowledge in the field of genetic research. So Biart therefore, invites laymen to participate in science. It enables them to develop informed opinions, and in this way, Bioarts allows new public sewer rise in the discourse around genetic research. These publics do not belong to the dominant voices in a debate, like scientists or policymakers. They are alternative voices, often excluded from mainstream debates. Bioart does not only educate people, it also provides them with a platform to protect themselves from certain implementations of genetic technologies. Bioartists often develop workshops that equip people with tools, for using existing technologies in an alternative way, and sometimes even in a way that actively disrupts the practices of large companies dealing with the new genetic techniques. These techniques are ethically ambiguous, and seem to threaten the privacy and autonomy of individual citizens. By giving rise in alternative practice of available technologies, Bioarts enables people to subvert existing regimes of authority, and official narratives. One of projects that plays with subversion of practices of biological surveillance, is DNA immunity censor by Stijn Belle. This art project obliterates the link between one's DNA and one's physical presence. Belle, secretly spreads the DNA material of people, leaving it behind it places where they've never been. For this, he uses a so-called DNA canon, In which he inserts an individual's genetic material, and then shoots the canon, so all the DNA gets spread around. This way, the notion of DNA material that provides irrefutable evidence for someone's presence at a certain place, becomes disrupted. Another art project that allows people to disrupt existing practices of genetic technologies is by anonymous, by Heather do we Hagberg. By anonymous is a community platform that brings together artists, activists, and citizens that are concerned with genetic privacy. Through an online discussion forum, they discuss what to do with new technological developments, that allow institutions to gather and use your DNA, and they discuss what to do with this new form of surveillance. Next to this, the platform shares diverse manuals and supplies for replacing, extracting, and raising your own DNA. In this way, by anonymous provides people with the knowledge and tools to remain biologically anonymous. It creates a space for the disruption of the actual implementations of genetic technologies. So, art can further enriched to ethical debates around genetic privacy, as it allows new publics to arise. Bioart creates a space for the publics to subvert practices and that's collecting and interpreting their genetic information. Bioart thereby, enable citizens to stand up against possibly suppressing ways in which new genetic technologies are used. So consider, would you participate in a bio arc projects? And do you think laymen should be included in the debates around genetic research and privacy? Think about these questions, before continuing with the rest of the course.