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.
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SciArt in America August 2013