The goal of this studio laboratory course is to examine similarities, differences and interactions between art and biology. It is an opportunity for students interested in interdisciplinary concepts to work both in a studio art environment and biological laboratory. This course explores the relationship between the working processes of visual artists and experimental scientists. Both artists and scientists seek to discover fragments of reality in the process of working either in the studio or the laboratory. Both disciplines seek to increase levels of observation, awareness, and perception. In addition to art science projects, this course includes lectures, discussion, slide/video and media presentations, and reading assignments. Students will be introduced both to the work of artists whose art is based in science as well as to the work of scientists who use visual data to inform their scientific work. Students will have an opportunity to experiment creatively with scientific media such as electron and video probe microscopy. Instr.Maurides
