Tissue-Engineered Art

The above image, "Victimless Leather", a living, growing mouse tissue coat, was one of the works in “Design and the Elastic Mind,” the 2008 exhibition at MoMA curated by Paola Antonelli. This exhibit is a prime example of my proclaimed Neo-organicism movement, where science and art come together using biology as a medium to raise some very important questions about the future of science and organic life.

For a narrated slide show of the exhibit by Paola Antonelli click here.

On Truth and Beauty

This video is a conversation between theoretical physicist, Janna Levin and writer, Johnathan Lethem about the metaphorical language of Truth and Beauty. I stumbled upon this video through Seed Magazine about a year after Todd Bartel, (one of my artist teachers in grad school) sent me a link to an NPR interview with Janna Levin about her book A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines. He saw a connection between the concepts discussed in the book and interview to the ideas and issues that I was dealing with to a large part in my work. So too, I believe that the concepts and issues discussed in the video are issues that every artist and writer deal with and could benefit from hearing.