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This article was taken from the July 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.
Wired asks the experts what they see happening at the intersection of creative and scientific endeavour.
Neuroscientist and best-selling author
"When squeezed to the scale of human perception, science produces art. Consider fast- or slow-mo technologies: mushrooms shoot up and wobble into bloom or a photon saunters through a glass bottle, as viewed at a trillion frames per second."
Suzanne Lee
Director of the BioCouture Research Project, London
"The open-source, DIYBio movement makes the once obscure accessible to all, facilitated by community labs like Genspace in New York, which offers biology courses. The surge in iGEM competition shows the future of design-led bioengineering."
Cynthia Pannucci
Director of Arts & Science Collaborations Inc, US
"Most exciting is that artists are creating ways to interpret the processes of research. Julian Voss-Andreae's Quantum Man sculpture visualises a theory; artist Victoria Vesna and scientist James Gimzewski describe technologies invisible to humans."
Nicola Triscott
Director of London-based Arts Catalyst
"German artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis fuses research and fiction. Her work explored the zone below the earth and ice, but recently shifted to the skies. She is training a flock of Moon geese to fly to the Moon and is trying to affect meteor trajectories."
Susana Soares
Senior lecturer at London South Bank University
"Synthetic biology and genetics could redefine the body. Projects such as Material Beliefs, Impact and Synthetic Aesthetics are experimental collaborations between design and science that facilitate debate about the ethical dimensions of technologies."
Freelance lecturer and neuroscientific artist
"Brain-imaging technologies have invited a new language of portraiture, expanding identity beyond external likeness. Through exploration of brain structures, my art conveys an aesthetic of selfhood that remodels what it means to be human."
Felice Frankel
Science photographer and research scientist, MIT
"A virtual community of graphical designers and scientists is in the works through visual-strategies.org.
Designers, researchers and science students will create more compelling ways to express scientific concepts, and everyone will teach other."
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