For two decades artist and body architect, Lucy McRae has been prototyping frontier technology — investigating the convergence of biotech, ethics, and the body. In 2006 she led Philips' far-future design research lab, developing an Electronic tattoo and emotional sensing dresses, winning the Time Magazine Fashion Innovation Award. In 2011, invented Swallowable Parfum - a speculative pill now active in commercial research. She is design consultant to TV mini-series Blade Runner 2099, a TED Fellow, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and Visiting Professor at the architecture school SCI-Arc. Her work is held in the permanent collection of SFMOMA and has been exhibited at Centre Pompidou, Venice Biennale, and London Science Gallery.

Biology is emerging as the general-purpose technology of the 21st century — the capacity to read, write, design, and engineer living systems.

What we eat, how we reproduce, what we enhance, what is human.