title: Bioart.
abstract: Bioart is a creative practice that adapts scientific methods and draws inspiration from the philosophical, societal, and environmental implications of recombinant genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology. Some bioartists foster inter- disciplinary relationships that blur distinctions between art and science. Others emphasize critical responses to emerging trends in the life sciences. Since bioart can be combined with realistic views of scientific developments, it may help inform the public about science. Artistic responses to biotechnology also integrate cultural commentary resembling political activism. Art is not only about ‘responses’, however. Bioart can also initiate new science and engineer- ing concepts, foster openness to collaboration and increasing scientific literacy, and help to form the basis of artists’ future relationships with the communities of biology and the life sciences.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Electronic address: ayetisen@mgh.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Ali K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Yetisen
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Joe
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.affiliation: Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
authors.forename: Ahmet F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Coskun
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: George M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Church
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Electronic address: syun@mgh.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Seok Hyun
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Yun
mesh_terms: D001154:Art; D001690:Biological Science Disciplines / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans