(CNN) There is science in art -- the alchemy of paint, the binary codes computing away in a camera, the expressive anatomy in portraiture and sculpture. Bio-art, an artistic genre that took hold in the 1980s, solidifies, extends and enriches this organic relationship. In BioCouture, for example, fashion, art, and biology are weaved together, blossoming new materials into existence. The discourses of science in particular train us to see and to look for disease in every location. In all its variant forms, and with a scalpel and a paintbrush to hand, Bio-art fashions the world anew.

Source: CNN February 07, 2017 01:07 UTC