Issue 28 11.20.13

Issue 28

Science as Art – BEES

PROJECT BURG, 2010, San José State University
PROJECT BURG, 2010, San José State University

by Danielle Siembieda-Gribben PROJECT BURG (Building Using Response Gadgets), 2010, San José State University You and your car have an intimate relationship. On average, you spend a quality one-and-a-half hours with it each day. When the car gets a little tired it goes slow up a hill or maybe takes a minute or two to […]

Biohacking
Biohacking

by Sara Gevurtz Recently there has been a growing trend of do-it-yourself spaces popping up.  These spaces allow anyone who is just curious or crafty to create and build new things.  A recent space that focuses on “biohacking,” or experimenting with biology, has opened in the Silicon Valley.  I have recently checked out this new hackerspace, […]

BioCurious
BioCurious

Introduction by Sara Gevurtz In the past, if you were an artist who was interested in science, you were fairly limited in what sort of work you could create. One could always draw about science, but if you really wanted to do anything with biology, you had to find a scientist with a lab who […]

Neuroscience, Memory and Art: Deborah Aschheim
Neuroscience, Memory and Art: Deborah Aschheim

by Sara Gevurtz Neuroscience, Memory and Art: a Discussion with Deborah Aschheim Deborah Aschheim is an artist who creates work that investigates memory, memory loss, and place. I had the opportunity recently to talk to her about her work, her experience dealing with the medical community, and what she is working on now. Currently, she […]

Growth Pattern
Growth Pattern

by Allison Kudlah In this work of art, a living natural system takes on the form of a manufactured pattern. Tobacco leaves are die-cut into a bilaterally symmetrical botanical abstraction and incubated in tiling square petri dishes that contain the nutrients necessary to promote new leaf growth. The premise for this work is the merging […]