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"...At some point in the 17th century, the British scientist Robert Hooke peered into his microscope and discovered that the sliver of cork he was examining was not a solid block of material but a honeycomb of hundreds of thousands of cells. This discovery led to revolutions in biological science. In just the last 60 years, the architecture of DNA has been decoded, in-vitro babies have been born, and sheep have been cloned.

So it’s natural that some artists spend as much time in the lab as they do in the studio. Over the last three decades, in fact, artists have cultivated human tissue, bred frogs, assembled DNA profiles, and used modified bacteria as electrical transmitters. Bio-art—as this type of work is called—has also begun to surface in museums and avant-garde art festivals, from MoMA in New York to the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth in Australia.

...Last summer, the Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York opened its Nature and Technology Lab, stocked with microscopes, dissection equipment, and an area for plant cloning..." (continue reading)

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