A Card Game Based On Your DNA?
If your DNA determines who you are, and defines both your strengths and limitations, then you could say we all live our lives with a pre-dealt deck of cards.
That’s the premise of a new card game on display as part of the Talk to Me exhibit which opened at MOMA this week.
Players send in swabs of saliva; the designers send it out to be analyzed and then generate a customized 50-card deck from each player’s specific DNA…The deck allows players to become shadow versions of themselves, with all their genetic cards on the table, and in the game, as in reality, life depends on how the cards are played, not on which cards are dealt. The effects of any trait depend Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at The Blog That Ate Manhattan*
