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A laboratory for a studio Residing in the School of Visual Arts (New York, New York) is one of America’s only science laboratories created for express use by artists. The NATLab (Nature & Technology Lab) was conceived of and founded by bioartist and chair of the Fine Arts Department at SVA, Suzanne Anker. The NATLab serves as a studio space for students throughout the year, and holds a residency program over the summer, offering state-of-the-art scientific equipment including microscope enabled cameras and video cameras, an herbarium, a skeleton collection, a large specimen collection, multiple aquariums and a science/art library. Students manipulate anything from slime mold to brain slides to see-through amphibian specimens, starting with the scientific method from which, with some creative intervnetion, emerges a work of art. 6 SciArt in America August 2013