
“Genpets,” created by Adam Brandejs, are bioengineered buddies that come with a feeding tube.
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From the Boston Globe (a paper I write for):
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Someday you’ll be able to buy live, genetically engineered pets off the shelf at Toys “R” Us . They’ll come in plastic containers like regular toys, and when you release them from their packaging, they’ll awaken from artificially induced states of hibernation and come fully to life.
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That, at least, is the fantasy animating a work by sculptor Adam Brandejs included in “It’s Alive! A Laboratory of Biotech Art,” a thought-provoking but disappointing exhibition at Montserrat College of Art Gallery. Organized by gallery director Leonie Bradbury , the show presents works by six artists from Boston and five from other cities in the United States and Canada that respond to developments in biotechnology.
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