bioart

A walk through any research lab can be an assault on the senses. It could be learning the structure of a particular cell or an arrangement of laboratory glassware ready for sterilisation that makes an impact on you. Having access to this facility has been a luxury. It has opened up a whole new range of materials, tools and paths of investigation.

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With a glass of white wine in one hand and a hunk of bread topped with a quivering dollop of hummus in the other, several gallery patrons including myself stood with headphones on, watching an endoscopic video installation exploring what looked to be freshly excavated tunnels within a pot of Rose’s Lime Marmalade.  (more…)

As part of the art research science program encouraging collaboration between artists, scientists and researchers, ANAT will be moderating a discussion list throughout 2008. (more…)

Getting started:Lets begin with the image above; this is a “gel electrophoresis” image made with DNA and often called (though the expression is a mis-nomer) a “DNA Fingerprint”. (more…)