By Futurist Thomas Frey
By 2040, the frontier of human creativity has shifted from the digital to the biological. The most provocative art movement of the century isn’t found in galleries filled with paintings or screens displaying NFTs—it’s in biolabs, greenhouses, and microscopic petri dishes where living art is literally grown, not made. Artists have become genetic composers, crafting DNA sequences instead of brushstrokes, using CRISPR and synthetic biology to sculpt life itself into form, color, and motion. The result? Art that breathes, evolves, and eventually dies.
This new movement—often called BioArt Renaissance—emerged from a fusion of biotech and creativity. Artists now program genetic code the way previous generations programmed software.
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