SciArt Magazine Volume 35
February 2019
Table of Contents

Cover image: Detail of "METABOLON" by Nate Adams & Seiko Kinoshita
Letter from the Editor

Dear readers,

It is with pleasure that I present our first edition of 2019!

This issue we dig into the art of microbiology, 3D print food with brain waves, explore photosynthesis through origami, discover best practices in science-art collaboration, discuss the public perception of artificial intelligence, and more. It is especially exciting, for me, to see the number of scientists that contribute to each edition of our publication on the rise. At heart, we will always be an arts magazine, but the line between scientist and artist blurs evermore.

​I'd like to call attention to a fantastic job opening at Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology - in a new partnership with Arizona State University, they are now hiring an Executive Director. Click the graphic below to learn more!

As always, I hope you enjoy this issue. If you have science-art, collaborative work, or STEAM education you'd like to publish about, shoot us an email at info@sciartmagazine.com, subject line SUBMISSION.

Sincerely, 
Julia Buntaine Hoel | Founder, Editor-in-Chief

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COLLABORATION
Origami meets Chlorophyll in METABOLON

||Julia Buntaine Hoel

METABOLON, the result of a collaboration between biochemist Nate Adams and textile artist Seiko Kinoshita, merges the art of origami with the science of chlorophyll production in a dazzling array of geometric forms... 

STRAIGHT TALK
Ardis DeFreece: Curiosity at the Intersection Between Art and Science

||Christopher X Jon Jensen

​As an ecologist and evolutionary biologist whose primary job is to educate artists and designers, I am always looking to better illuminate the intersection between math/science and art/design. One way to understand this intersection is to seek out artists and designers whose work is influenced by a genuine engagement with science...

ON SCREEN from Labocine
Nematodes

||Allison Palenske

Nematodes is a four-minute experimental film that follows the endosymbiotic relationship between parasitic nematodes and the bacteria Wolbachia... 

RESIDENCY
Opening Ion Channels:Finding true exchange in NEST Studio for the Arts

||Erin Espelie

Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, a preeminent virologist at Columbia University, was the first scientist I ever interviewed for one of my films. The interaction with him was a rushed, awkward affair... 

PERCEPTION
Is Seeing Believing? A Collaborative Art and Design Research Project

||Anne Trouillet Rogers & Lisa Talia Moretti

Technology is often thought of as being a series of products. However, it’s not quite so simple. Rather, we should think of technology as being a series of products that are connected to ideas, that are embedded into culture, and that go on to create a system...

STRAIGHT TALK
Exploring Sciences of Visual Arts with
​Diaa Ahmed Mohamed Ahmedien

||Marnie Benney

​"My specialization lies in the area at which art, science, and technology interact each other... by its unique and powerful interdisciplinary course, I believe that one of the most important contributions of sciences of visual arts is to investigate the invisible worlds in which the structural dogma of the visible world exists..."

STRAIGHT TALK
Finding Ourselves in the Work of Jason J. Ferguson

||Joe Ferguson

​You are not a blurry Instagram selfie. You are not a deceptively-inflated Tinder profile. You are not an over-androgenized, hyper-violent MMPORG avatar...

QUICK VIEW
"Making Food with the Mind" by FREAK Lab

||Sarah Allen Eagen

Pat Pataranutaporn is a biologist, designer, coder, and a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab. His work often starts out with the goal of “prototyping the impossible.”... 

IN THE LAB
with Genspace's Julie Wolf

||Julia Buntaine Hoel

"My science communications career really began at Genspace. At Genspace, you never know if the member you’re speaking with is an art student, a venture capitalist, or a research scientist..." 
SciArt Magazine, founded in 2013, is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States).
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Editor in Chief: Julia Buntaine Hoel
Copy Editor: Kathryn Nock
Contributing writers: Danielle McCloskey, Joe Ferguson, Michal Gavish, Sarah Allen Eagen, Marnie Benney

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