Amy Karle: “Technology can be used for our benefit or death”
The internationally recognized American bioartist explores the relationship between the human body, science and technology. The bioengineering and genetic modifications could eliminate deformities and diseases, but also irreversible and could permanently alter our species. The promise of bioprinting and creating replacement parts offers hope to those in need of transplants, but could lead to significant lengthening of life and post-human body shapes and functions. These are all ethical concerns that the work raises for Karle. "We must ask ourselves who we want to become to determine how to create and harness these technologies to build a better future for all of us," she concludes (translated)