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The New Natural

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Artist Ani Liu and entrepreneur Jasmina Aganovic discuss how science and technology will shape the future of aesthetics.

What do you consider natural? What’s beautiful to you? These questions may sound trite but they’re fraught enough that any one person’s answer will reveal a good deal about how they see the world. Our conceptions of nature and beauty are heavily constructed, but that hasn’t stopped them from evolving in tandem, and being constantly renegotiated by prevailing technologies and attitudes. How has this spectrum evolved in our lifetimes? What does “natural beauty” mean in the age of social media and synthetic biology? To cut to the heart of these questions, we sat down with two pioneers known for t

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