BioArt 2.0: Redefining Life as Art

Artists are now programming living cells like pixels on a canvas. Welcome to BioArt

2.0. This isn't science fiction. BioArt 2.0 combines cutting-edge

genetics with artistic expression, creating living artworks that grow, evolve,

and challenge everything we thought we knew about art. Eduardo Kac pioneered this field with

Alba, a genetically modified rabbit that glows green under blue light.

Heather Dewey-Hagborg creates portraits from DNA found in discarded cigarette butts and coffee cups.

And Suzanne Anker grows crystalline sculptures using laboratory techniques. But perhaps most

striking is Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr's work at Symbioticae. They've grown living