Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Saturday, October 18, 2014

BioArt - A Petri Dish Instead of A Palette

BioArt has not yet been defined in a way that is accepted by artists. Some artists, for example, make DNA models and call that BioArt. To me, BioArt has to be art that contains and creates a living thing and an active process. To put it another way, the organism used has to sustain its life and development in/on the work. As Eduardo Kac puts it, “Works that illustrate biological subject-matter, in other words, DNA models, chromosome diagrams, human body models, videos, and photographs of cells, do not fall under bio-art.” I am of the same opinion, and I try to make that clear in my art works.

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The Marriage Of Art And Microorganisma



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