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The collaboration between scientists and artists in the form of Artist-in-Lab residencies may not only cause a productive disturbance for a day's work in the laboratory, but also reveal new ways of understanding. Research and science communication company Biofaction has brought together artists and synthetic biologists throughout Europe in a residence program that spans four truly cross-disciplinary collaborations. The contributors to this volume share their reflections of the dynamic frictions that occurred when their artistic and scientific worlds met.
These stories, where chemistry labs, tobacco plants, genetically edited bacteria, and new-to-nature enzymes collide with music, photography, film, and visual arts, infuse the ongoing dialogue between art and sciences with grain, noise, and synergies.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 4
Managing creative disturbances 7
Creative mis/understandings: expectations, outcomes, and frictions in asymmetric art/science encounters 22
About 35
Artist x Laboratory 38
Tobacco: a mass of atoms, a biofactory, and a generous friend 40
Tobacco research through different lenses: reflections on the influences of art in science 80
About 87
Artist x Laboratory 90
Making music with enzymes 92
Rewriting the symphony of life with synthetic metabolism - can enzymes play music? 106
About 115
Artist x Laboratory 118
Multiscalar forms of resistance: the molecular switch, the bacterium, the individual and the state 120
Towards a new covenant with nature - starred by environmental microorganisms 140
Artist x Laboratory 152
Souls from the deep: a survey through a sticky universe 154
Breathing life into inorganic alien matter 168
Friction gains in art & science collaboration: more than noise 175
Contributors 191
Image Credits 196