• Question: what is a bioartist

    Asked by beep42gas to Katie on 13 Nov 2019.
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      Katie Fala answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      Great question. Bioartists are people who generally train as scientists, but apply their skills to the creation of artwork using biological organisms and scientific techniques (or artists that work with scientists in a collaboration). Art and science used to be studied interchangeably, if you think back to figures like Leonardo da Vinci, and I liked both Art and Science in school so I think that I would like to work in this field if I weren’t studying microbiology.
      There are people who make ‘paintings’ with bacteria on agar petri dishes (check out Petri Dish Picasso for more!)

      this one was done by two very talented scientists in my lab:

      there are people who have made sculptures from bone cells

      and some people use molecular structures of proteins as inspiration for pieces of art:
      https://www.scienceinschool.org/content/art-meets-molecular-biology

      Hope that answered your question!

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