Escape artists: Breaking out of the lab
By Tiffany O’Callaghan, CultureLab editor
New Scientist – CultureLab – 12 July, 2011
Art & Science: Merging Art & Science to Make a Revolutionary New Art Movement
[…] Curated by historian of science and author Arthur Miller, the show is meant to explore the meaning, and boundaries, of bio-art – the way that “artists are taking science out of the lab,” Miller says.A perfect example of this is the multimedia projection, Imagine Tree, by the artists Ken and Julia Yonetani which uses electron microscopy to capture photosynthesis and respiration of leaves. The artists have augmented the footage, which zooms in to an astonishingly minute level, with audio of sighs and hisses, and visual bursts of what appears to be steam, creating the sensation that the leaves are breathing. Yet just as you come to envision the gasping pores as tiny mouths, they begin to blink, and slowly morph into eerie eyes that grow in size as the artists zoom out. […]