Studio 360: Kurt Andersen’s DNA Mask Revealed

Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg uses equipment and procedures now easily available to extract DNA from strangers’ hair or fingernail clippings to make life-like models of people’s faces — people she’s never met or seen. We wondered how close Dewey-Hagborg could get to the way people really look, so we gave her hairs from an anonymous source, Kurt Andersen. Listen to the full story: