Photo courtesy CIAT, from flickr.
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Artists in the Science Lab

Should artists be allowed in the lab? These three are not stopping to ask permission! Besides, can't artists bring a new perspective to bio-practice?

Adam Zaretsky is an artist/researcher who has worked at both MIT's Arnold Demain Laboratory for Microbiology and at Symbiotica, the first lab to invite artists to engage in wet biology.

Julia Reodica, a former staff technician at San Francisco's Exploratorium, is quickly becoming expert in "tissue engineering."

Kathy High is a media artist and curator whose films and videos are feminist inquiries into bio-science and interspecies telepathic communication. She is editor of FELIX: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication.
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