art and science

It’s been an interesting week for ‘Heirloom‘ – the artwork we’re currently exhibiting that grows cell portraits of the artist’s daughters in bioreactor tanks, and then preserves them for display. The cells have grown so successfully that last week the tubes became blocked, causing increased pressure and a leak. Then on Monday we discovered a […]

Visions of mimicking, synthesising, or designing life forms have an ancient pedigree, bouncing back and forth between the occult, the philosophical, and the scientific. Artists working with the tools of science and technology have also played a key role in shaping and interrogating imaginations of creation – and in revealing the way that tools shape the […]