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Robotics + Art

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Biotech + Art

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As art continues to expand into our bodies and our environment, artists have worked in laboratories to work directly with biologists, nanotechnologists, geneticists, and neuroscientists to go into the cellular tissue level. There is a gray area when defining the term BioArt. Some artists feel that you have to be working with the tissue to define it as BioArt, while other artists feel just collaborating with scientists and using scientific imaging would be BioArt. Regardless, it is a controversial topic, especially when it comes to the ethical concerns of artists tinkering with the genetic structures of natural systems (Vesna).  MicroCT Image of a Juvenile Squirrel Monkey Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist. C onsidered a pioneer, s he has been working on BioArt for over twenty-five years . She has investigated the ways in which nature is manipulated in the 21st century. She delves into genetics, climate change, species extinction and toxic degradation. Some thin...
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