Elaine Young 楊綺鈴 (Yang Yi Ling, she/her) | STUDIOPHORIA is an artist and designer with a background in bioethics and medical anthropology. Her works include modern lockets that can be personalized with real DNA extracted and purified from people, pets and plants - to graphics for bomber jackets that incorporate scientific images and geopolitical population data into wearable statements that question the future of humanness. Through the intimacy of personal adornment, Elaine’s work examines how technological innovation affects the politics of how we know, define, value, care for and govern bodies as material, souls, persons, citizens, culture and data. Sci-fi and scientifically inspired, her works engage with how these questions shift during times of peace, emergency and conflict.Elaine is an alumni of and current mentor at NEW INC (the NEW MUSEUM's cultural incubator), a member of the Board at the Adaptive Design Association, member of Genspace, and a judge/instructor for the Biodesign Challenge.Notable press, stockists and venues include: Museum of Modern Art Design Store, Mori Art Museum, CNN, Vogue, Creators Project, Hong Kong Asia Society, Shanghai Expo, Chicago Design Museum, London Design Biennale and the New Museum Store. Originally from Toronto, Elaine was based in Tokyo and Hong Kong before NYC.