Creative Time Inc.

DNAid

(New York, New York, United-States)

Almost immediately after its founding in 1973, Creative Time became an international leader in presenting new works by visual artists, performers, musicians, poets and choreographers in unlikely, underexplored, and even abandoned public spaces. Located in New York City, Creative Time has continually fostered an awareness of creative possibilities within the spaces of the city landscape.

As part of a series of public artworks titled DNAid, artists Natalie Bookchin and Jin Lee created Metapet, an on-line multi-user game. Metapet.net is a virtual environment in which human life is presented as a product. It also depicts the politically volatile the politically volatile subject of genetics and biotechnology.