DNArtist printing faces according to DNA samples (hair)

You give her a hair, she'll give you... a face.

After reading a story in Science about the new field of forensic DNA phenotyping (18 February 2011, p. 838), NY City artist Dewey-Hagborg decided to turn her fascination into an art project. She collected 11 hairs left around the city by strangers and learned how to test their DNA at a genetics lab. Now, she’s printing three dimensional masks, or approximations, of those people’s faces, which will be on display—along with her own—in a January exhibition called Stranger Visions. The masks reflect eye color, geographical roots, sex, and other traits, but not exact facial features because forensic phenotyping can’t fill in all the details. But it might one day, and with ever cheaper sequencing, an era of 'genetic surveillance' is looming, says Dewey-Hagborg. 'As a society, we need to have a discussion about that.'"

http://deweyhagborg.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/stranger-visions-introduction 
http://deweyhagborg.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/feature-in-science-magazine/