BioArt 2.0: Redefining Living 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's and Ionat Zurr's work at Symbioticae. They've grown living tissue sculptures,