Grade 11/12 Art - Day 62 "Art and Science, Session 2: Anna Dumitriu"

Today, we continue building our understanding of how science and art may meld with quite extraordinary results.  I mentioned a few leading art/science collaborators in my lecture yesterday.  Today, I want to focus in on their work in particular!

The first artist is Anna Dumitriu, "a British artist whose work fuses craft, technology and bioscience to explore our relationship to the microbial world, biomedicine and technology. She has a strong international exhibition profile, having exhibited at The Picasso Museum in Barcelona, The Science Gallery in Dublin, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Taipei, and The V & A Museum in London. Her work is held in several major public collections, including the Science Museum London and Eden Project. She is artist in residence on the Modernising Medical Microbiology Project at the University of Oxford, a visiting research fellow: artist in residence in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Hertfordshire, and an honorary research fellow in the Wellcome Trust Brighton and Sussex Centre for Global Health at Brighton and Sussex Medical School."

Source: http://annadumitriu.tumblr.com/Eden

 Here are some fascinating videos that explain some of the work we discussed;

I also present this site for further research on artists that use science in their creations: http://www.virology.ws/art/