{"id":534,"date":"2023-03-09T08:41:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T08:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/?p=534"},"modified":"2023-03-09T08:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T08:46:53","slug":"younome-exhibition-returns-to-canterbury-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2023\/03\/09\/younome-exhibition-returns-to-canterbury-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUNOME exhibition returns to Canterbury Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YouNome \u2013 Kent and Medway Medical School, Pears Building, First Floor, Student space<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following a successful intervention at Medway, Younome is now back on display on the Canterbury campus.<\/p>\n<p>This exciting and thought-provoking art-science collaboration between artist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/keithrobinsonpainting.com\/\">Keith Robinson<\/a>\u00a0and Biosciences researchers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/profiles\/staff\/robinson.html\">Dr Gary Robinson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/profiles\/staff\/griffin.html\">Professor Darren Griffin<\/a>\u00a0explores genomics in a novel way through a series of Keith\u2019s self-portraits, demonstrating the impact of individual chromosomes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YouNome &#8211; <\/strong><strong>Your personalised genome in 25 portraits\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>YouNome is a unique science-art collaboration designed to engage, educate and inspire the general public about \u2018personalised genomics\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keithrobinsonpainting.com\/\">Keith Robinson<\/a>, a renowned portrait artist, has produced 25 portraits, each representing the 24 human chromosomes (plus mitochondria DNA) by altering his self-image.<\/p>\n<p>Collaborating with Darren Griffin (Professor of Genetics at the University of Kent), Dr Gary Robinson (Kent Innovation and Enterprise) and Robbie Sutton (Professor of Social Psychology, Kent), Keith aimed to facilitate genetic understanding and reference art history, popular culture and effects on the viewer.<\/p>\n<p>Each portrait represents one human chromosome.<\/p>\n<p>Each one depicts an aspect of genetics (e.g. disease, variation, evolution, gene-environment interaction) and reflect certain artistic style (e.g. Van Gogh, Hieronymus Bosch, Cindy Sherman, Fernando Botero, watercolour, hand touched photograph.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keithrobinsonpainting.com\/Younome\">https:\/\/keithrobinsonpainting.com\/Younome<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is open and FREE to all!<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact icci@kent.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouNome \u2013 Kent and Medway Medical School, Pears Building, First Floor, Student space Following a successful intervention at Medway, Younome is now back on display &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2023\/03\/09\/younome-exhibition-returns-to-canterbury-campus\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25727,"featured_media":453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}