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Images and Abbreviated Bios of the
Artists and Scientists
The artists featured here have been preselected for the Life Illuminated project by members of the committee on the proposal. They represent a mixture of traditional artists, multi-media artists and scientists in a variety of topics on the life sciences. In addition to these artists, an open call will be held from which the rest of the artists will be chosen. These artists will be selected by the Life Illuminated committee and representatives from the participating venues.
Square footage estimates are included for information, but are somewhat flexible and subject to change.
Daniel Sauter |
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Art Olson |
Mara Haseltine |
Hunter O'Reilly |
A. M. Hoch |
Ruth West |
Joe Davis (artist) |
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Eugene Tsui |
Julie Newdoll |
Carter Hodgkin |
Klaus Schulten and Emad Tajkhorshid, |
 Teresa Nicolson and Juergen Berger Mechanosensitive hair cells at the surface of the skin of a zebrafish. Scientist: Teresa Nicolson, Ph.D. (Oregon Health and Science University). Photo credit: Juergen Berger (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Entwicklungsbiologie, Tuebingen, Germany). From NEURON, Vol 20, No 2, 1998, pp 271-283, Nicolson et al, “Genetic analysis of vertebrate sensory hair cell mechanosensation: the zebrafish circler mutants” with permission from Elsevier. 10 feet of wall space.
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 Michael Joaquin Grey "Electron M", Electron microscope covered in plastilina, 1990. http://www.bitforms.com/ |
Teresa Larsen |
Laura Splan |
Frances Whitehead |
David Goodsell |
 Amy Youngs "Intra-terrestrial Soundings" offers human participants an opportunity to tune into - and bodily experience - the vibrations made by tiny, soil-dwelling beings. accad.osu.edu/~ayoungs/ |
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Ken Rinaldo |
 Steve Wilson "Protozoa Games" Interactive Installation eflecting on animal experimentation and the relationships between species, the Protozoa Games interactive installations allow humans and live protozoa to compete in pinball-like environments mediated by digital microscope and motion tracking technologies. It asks audiences to consider new kinds of access made available through scientific tools and research. It proposes new ways for audiences to engage this information in cultural niches outside of professional science http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~swilson. |
Daniel Sauter is a media artist exploring interactive installations dealing with time and space relations, cultural implication of technologies and site-specific interventions. .Sauter received a Diploma in Communicational Design from HfG/ZKM (State College of Design at the Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe, Germany in 2002. He received a honorary mention in the category Interactive Art at the Prix Ars Electronica – International Competition for CyberArts 2004. In 2001 he was awarded the EUROPRIX Student’s Award. Currently he is a lecturer at the department of Design | Media Arts at UCLA. His shows include Europrix Top Talent Festival in Vienna, Austria; Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig, Germany; Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden, Germany; Century of Design in Karlsruhe, Hannover and Hamm, Germany; Europrix Award in Lisbon, Portugal; Milia 02 in Cannes, France; MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart, Germany; International Video Festival in Bochum, Germany; 6. International Videofestival in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro, FILE2002 in Sao Paulo, Brazil; werk, bauen + wohnen in Zagreb, Croatia, Reality Zone, UC Santa Barbara, USA; LALALA – westweek, Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, USA; nano, LACMALab, Los Angeles, USA; telic gallery, Los Angeles, USA; New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; Ars Electronica Festival, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria. www.daniel-sauter.com/ |
Heinrich Jaeger is the Director of the Materials Research Center and Professor at the University of Chicago. A native of Germany, he received his Ph.D. in experimental condensed physics from the University of Minnesota in 1987. He went on to the University of Chicago as a James Franck Postdoctoral Fellow and then for two years to the Delft Institute for Microelectronics and Submicron Technology in The Netherlands as a Senior Researcher. In 1991 he joined the University of Chicago physics faculty. Among the awards he received are a Fulbright Scholarship, a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship and a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholarship. His current research interests focus on three areas: superconductivity, self-assembled nanomaterials, and the nonlinear dynamics of granular matter. jfi.uchicago.edu/~jaeger/group/ |
Art Olson is a Professor of Molecular Biology at The Scripps Research Institute. He is founder and director of the Molecular Graphics Laboratory, where his research focuses on development and application of computational technologies to study of the structure and function of biological molecules. Projects in his laboratory range from design of therapeutic agents for AIDS, cancer and heart disease, to development of novel algorithmic, visualization and human interface approaches for molecular biology. His latest visualization research is in developing “Tangible Interfaces for Molecular Biology” utilizing “solid printing” and augmented reality technologies. He has been a user/developer of computer graphics for over thirty years. He has produced a number of molecular animations over the years, including two OmniMax segments, one for the Disney EPCOT Center, and the other for the Siggraph sponsored “Magic Egg”. His molecular visualizations have appeared in popular books, magazines, newspapers and on television. His work has also been shown in both Science and Art Museums in the United States and Europe. www.scripps.edu/mb/olson/ |
Mara G. Haseltine does work that is figurative in that even her most abstract forms relate to the internal-external body, as well as human psychology. She received her undergraduate degree in Studio Art and Art History from Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, and her master’s degree from The Art Institute of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, with a double degree in New Genres and Sculpture. She has worked as a sculptor throughout the United States and Canada and at the National Museum of Trinidad and Tobago in the Port of Spain, Trinidad. www.calamara.com/ |
A.M. Hoch has had numerous solo shows in the United States and Europe, including “Mitosis: Formation of Daughter Cells” a site-specific installation commissioned by the Beall Center for Art and Technology in Irvine, California in 2004; a multimedia installation entitled “interstices” at the Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, New York in 2002; and a solo installation at the Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany; as well as, solo painting exhibitions at Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, New York City and at LaMama Gallery, New York City. She has received various grants, including an artist-in-residency from Altos De Chavon, in the Dominican Republic in 1987; a project grant from the State Senate in Berlin, Germany in 1995; and a Gottlieb Grant in 1999. She was an artist in residence at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Museum, New York in June 2001. In 2003-04, she received a large-scale commission from the Beall Center for Art and Technology to launch their new 2004 season. http://beallcenter.uci.edu/exhibitions/mitosis.php |
| Ruth West is an artist with background as a molecular genetics researcher. Her work explores the relationship between genetics and culture, within the broader framework of the interrelationships of artistic and scientific practice. Working in predominantly computer-based media, she is also self-taught as a painter. She received her MFA in Design|Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts. West is a UCSD CRCA Research Associate currently working in residence with the UCSD Center for Research in Biological Systems as the first Cal-(IT)2 New Media Artist crossing over to the Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine Layer. She is the founder of "in silico v1.0", a collaborative of biologists, computer scientists and artists that developed Ecce Homology. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, Genomics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and has been featured on NPR's the Connection, in The Center for the Advancement of Genomics, Genome News Network online art gallery and in an article in Artweek. She conceived the seminar entitled, "Genetics and Culture: From Molecular Music to Transgenic Art" at UCLA where she has lectured in the Department of Design | Media Arts. www.insilicov1.org |
Klaus Schulten and Emad Tajkhorshid at the Univiersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign collaborated at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing center to produce this and other related images. Klaus Schulten received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1974. He is Swanlund Professor of Physics and is also affiliated with the Department of Chemistry as well as with the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology. Professor Schulten is a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute and directs the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group (TCBG). www.ks.uiuc.edu/Overview/KS/schulten.html Emad Tajkhorshid is Assistant Director of the Theoretical and Computational Biophysic Group, an NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Biophysics (Suma Cum Laude) from University of Heidelberg. www.ks.uiuc.edu/~emad. |
Eugene Tsui (AIA, NCARB, APA) is a licensed architect and contractor, city and regional planner, industrial designer/artist, educator, investigative scientist, inventor, musician, competitive athlete, publisher, President of Tsui Design and Research, Inc. and Chairman of the Telos Foundation, a nonprofit foundation for educating the public about design. He is the author of four publications on Architecture. He is perhaps the first architect/designer in history to profoundly study, analyze and implement the workings of natural phenomena, through an interdisciplinary approach, as a basis for design at all scales including construction materials and methods. He holds four professional degrees in architecture and city and regional planning having attended the University of Oregon, Columbia University Graduate School of Design and the University of California, Berkeley where he received an Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Architecture and Education. His numerous scholarships and professional research grants include the Graham Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (Canada). At seventeen he won an "Honorable Mention for Most Exciting Design" from an American Institute of Architects competition. Eugene Tsui was apprenticed to the renowned American architect, Bruce Goff, from 1976 until Goff's death in 1982. In 1996,1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002 he was awarded the Presidential Sports Award and is the current four-time Senior Olympics Gymnastics All-Around Champion. www.tdrinc.com/ |
Julie Newdoll Inspired by nature on a small scale, she incorporates the delicate images captured with a microscope in many of her compositions. Her artwork has been featured on over 17 journal covers in the last four years, including such publications as Nature Reviews Genetics. Her most recent shows were both at Stanford University, at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and at Tresidder Union. Geron Corporation, Genzyme, Millennium Pharmaceuticals and the Buck Institute have all shown or purchased her work. She completed a residency in the Czech Republic with Project Hermit, under the curator of the Modern Art Exhibits of the National Gallery in Prague. Newdoll earned a B.A. in microbiology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and an M.S. in medical illustration from the University of California at San Francisco. www.brushwithscience.com |
Carter Hodgkin is a painter whose work has been inspired by emerging technologies for the past twenty years. As these technologies uncover invisible patterns of the natural world, Ms. Hodgkin has brought this encoded imagery into the language and physical presence of painting. She has had one-person shows in New York, Tokyo, New Delhi, San Francisco and Cincinnati. Her work has been featured in group shows in museums and galleries in the United States, Japan, India and Europe. She received a 2002 Pollack/Krasner award; a 1989 painting fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a 1991 Dieu Donne' Papermill in New York. in 1993 she was a panel member for the New York Foundation for the Arts' grant committee and a keynote panel member for the Conference on Science and Art at Cooper Union in New York. She has lectured at Artists Space, New York University, Parsons and Esalen Institute. She received a B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University, and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts. www.carterhodgkin.com/ |
Laura Splan has a Bachelor of Art from the University of California, Irvine where she also studied Biological Sciences, and a Master of Fine Arts from Mills College with an independent study in the Microbiology Department. Her work has been exhibited at many Bay Area venues including SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Southern Exposure. She has also shown nationally at Nathan Larramendy Gallery (Ojai, CA), Nexus Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Center For Digital Art, (Los Angeles, CA), Galerie Lelong, (New York, NY), and Delta Axis Gallery (Memphis, TN). Her work is currently traveling with New American Talent 19 with Arthouse (Austin, TX) and will be included in SubAnatomy at the Museum of Contemporary Art at LBC (Santa Rosa, CA) in 2005. She was the recipient of a Trillium Fund Grant (2003) and a Kala Art Institute Fellowship (2004). She has presented her work at SF Camerawork (2003) and Stanford University (2001). www.laurasplan.com/ |
Teresa Larsen received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, her M.S. in Molecular Biology from San Diego State University, and her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of California at Davis. She is founder of the Foundation for Scientific Literacy, whose mission is to educate, support, and promote scientific literacy, defined as "the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision-making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity." She was a guest scientist with Arthur Olson of the Scripps Research Institute, and currently holds a faculty position in Computational Science at San Diego State University where she also manages the Scientific Visualization Laboratory. www.scientificliteracy.org/ |
Frances Whitehead's artistic investigations probe the relationship between the scientific, historical, and allegorical readings of form, material, and site. She aims to confront the complex relationship between our physical world and interior lives, undertaking such landscape-sculpture projects as HORTVS OBSCURVS (the dark garden) in 1996, a permanent work in St. Louis using an encyclopedic range of the darkest varieties of plants. In 2001-2002, at the invitation of the U.S. Department of the Interior/Office of Surface Mining and the National Endowment for the Arts, she led an art/design team that undertook a major scientific and social proposal for AMD remediation (acid mine drainage), sewerage cleanup, and community rehabilitation for Murray City, Ohio. In 2002 she was artist-in-residence at the European Ceramic Work Center in The Netherlands. In 2003 she was in residence at the GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Lab at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. She participated in the Mohni Island Festival in Estonia, organized by the Vinnistu Contemporary Art Museum. Her "Mapping the Lake in the Great Garden", is on view Chicago’s Lincoln Park Conservatory Great Garden. In 2004, she has been artist-in-residence at the Polish Sculpture Centre in Oronsko, where she researched the eco-hydrology of the nearby Pilica River. Currently, she is part of a four-person collaborative team including Kendra Hamilton, Walter Hood and Ernesto Pujol, for the Spoleto Festival USA’s “Places with a Future,” engaged in a multi-year, critical investigation of questions of sustainable regional development through public art interventions and community discourse over the next few years. |
David Goodsell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at the Scripps Research Institute. He has his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California at Lost Angeles, and his B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from the University of California at Irvine. His is both a researcher and an artist, and has curated two Molecular Graphics Art shows. He has written three books. His latest commission is at the Center for Integrative Molecular Biosciences at the Scripps Research Institute. His work is unique in that it gives the realistic and surprising impression of how crowded and full cells and the cellular world really are. www.scripps.edu/mb/goodsell/ |
Teresa Nicolson and Juergen Berger. After receiving her B.S. in Biochemistry at Western Washington University, Teresa Nicolson received her Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry in 1995 from the University of California, Los Angeles. She then trained as a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany. In 1999, Teresa became an independent Group Leader at the same institute. In 2003, she was appointed as an assistant professor to the Oregon Hearing Research Center with a joint appointment at the Vollum Institute. Juergen Berger is a microscope technician and photographer at the Max Planck Institute. |
Eva Lee Eva Lee was born and raised in New York City. She currently lives and works in Connecticut. Ms. Lee studied painting at Bard College in Annandale, NY, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree (1987). She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Hunter College, City University of New York (2000). While attending Hunter, Ms. Lee was awarded the William Graf Travel Grant to conduct research for her MFA thesis with scientists at the University of California in Davis, CA. Her research there into methods of science and systems of knowledge culminated in a signature series of large-scale abstract drawings, made with white ink on black paper, consisting mainly of numerous dots and lines that connect and evolve as the artist draws. Following the completion of her graduate degree, Ms. Lee was awarded participation in the Artist-in-the-Marketplace Program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York City (2001). Recent awards include fellowships from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts (2002) and The MacDowell Colony (2004). Her work has recently been on view at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Kerrigan Campbell Art + Projects, New York, NY; P.S.122 Gallery, New York, NY; The Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, LI; and The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. Upcoming exhibitions will be held in 2005 at the Westby Gallery, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ; and the Citicorp Building, Long Island City, NY. www.christiansonlee.com/evalee.htm |
Michael Joaquin Grey has exhibited at Lisson Gallery, London, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, and Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, Bitforms, New York. Museum shows include Kunsthalle Loppem, Belgium, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art , MOMA, NY, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Norrtalje Konsthall, Sweden, and The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY. He has been published globally including, The NY Times, Washington Post, Artbyte, Flash Art, ID Design, Leonardo Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. He is the inventor of ZOOB, a modeling system that emulates the building blocks of nature and complex systems. Grey received a BS from UC Berkeley in Genetics and an MFA from Yale. He lives in San Francisco and New York. http://www.bitforms.com/ |
Hunter O'Reilly is both an internationally shown artist and an experienced geneticist. She reinterprets science as art through the creation of living artworks, abstractions, digital art and installations confronting issues related to biotechnology in our culture. She holds a Ph.D. and Masters degree in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a bachelors of science from the University of California-Berkeley. She created a course, Biology through Art, where students have the opportunity to create innovative artworks in a biology laboratory. Dr. O'Reilly teaches both biology and art at Loyola University Chicago. Most recently she is creating a series of Living Drawings with bioluminescent bacteria. These Living Drawings depict the cycle of life and death calling attention to our own mortality and explore the possibilities of new life forms created through genetic engineering. The cover of the April 2004 issue of Nature Genetics featured one of these Living Drawings. http://www.artbyhunter.com/ |
| Joe Davis was a sculptor and bike mechanic in Mississippi before he walked into M.I.T. uninvited in 1982 and walked out (the same day) as a research fellow in visual studies. However, intent on also realizing the scientific side of his nature, Davis was invited in 1992 to become a research associate in the laboratory of famed biophysicist Alexander Rich, who discovered "left-handed" DNA. When he is not creating conceptual art in synthetic DNA or envisioning wild projects for NASA, Davis is on somewhat of a personal crusade to bring more artists into the fold of modern biology. Davis is also an accomplished artist in the traditional sense. He designed and executed pedestrian lights and a sculpture that form the center of a public art/fountain complex at Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA (artists Joan Brigham and Otto Piene also contributed to that project). |
| Helen Donis-Keller combines her interests in art and science, believing that each field informs the other in significant ways. She was Assistant Research Director of Molecular Biology at Biogen, Inc., and later the Director of the Human Genetics Department at Collaborative Research, Inc. where she led the research group that developed the first genetic linkage map of the human genome during the 1980s. More recently she was Professor of Surgery and Director of the Division of Human Molecular Genetics with joint appointments as Professor of Genetics and Professor of Genetics in Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She has also maintained an interest in the ethical implications of genetic research, serving on an Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Assessing Genetic Risks. She also founded a course at Washington University on Ethics and Research Science. Dr. Donis-Keller has authored more than 150 publications in science. She received a B.Sc. in Natural Science and an Honours B.Sc. in Biology from Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard University, in Cambridge. MA, and an MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University in Medford, MA. She was also awarded a Doctor of Science Degree (Honoris Causa) from Lakehead University. |
Amy M. Youngs creates mixed-media, interactive sculptures and digital media works that reveal her interest in the complex relationship between technology and our changing concept of nature and self. She has exhibited her works nationally and internationally at venues such as Pace Digital Gallery (New York, NY), the Biennale of Electronic Arts (Perth, Australia), John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, Wisconson), Blasthaus (San Francisco, CA) and Circulo de Bellas Artes (Madrid, Spain). She has authored articles that have been published in Leonardo and Nouvel Objet and has lectured widely, at venues such as the Australian Center For the Moving Image (Melbourne, Australia) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston, MA). She was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Ohio Arts Council in 2002 and she received a full Merit Scholarship to study at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she completed her MFA in 1999. Youngs is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at The Ohio State University. accad.osu.edu/~ayoungs/ |
Ken Rinaldo is an artist and theorist who creates interactive multimedia installations that blur the boundaries between the organic and inorganic. He has been working at the intersection of art and biology for over two decades working in the catagories of interactive robotics, biological art, artificial life, interspecies communication, rapid prototyping and digital imaging. His works have been commissioned and displayed nationally and internationally at museums and galleries such as: The Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth Australia, Exit Festival France, Transmediale Berlin, Germany, ARCO Arts Festival Madrid, Spain, The OK Center for Contemporary Art, ARS ELECTRONICA, Austria; The Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; The Australian Center for Photograhy; The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Chicago; The Home Show, Seoul, Korea; V2 Dutch Electronica Arts Festival, Rotterdam, Holland; Image Du Future, Montreal, Canada; Siggraph, Los Angeles; The Exploratorium, San Francisco. accad.osu.edu/~rinaldo/ |
| Stephen Wilson is a San Francisco author, artist and professor who explores the cultural implications of new technologies. His interactive installations & performances have been shown internationally in museums, galleries and SIGGRAPH, CHI, Ars Electronica, BEAP, and V2 art shows. He won the Prize of Distinction in Ars Electronica's international competitions for interactive art and several honorary mentions. He has been Head of the Conceptual/Information Arts program at San Francisco State University since 1987. He was selected as artist in residence at Xerox PARC and NTT Research labs, been a developer for several hi-tech firms, and resarcher in NSF projects. He has published extensively including many articles and four books. His last book called "Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology" published by MIT Press in, 2002 is an international survey of artists, theorists, and researchers working in advanced inquiries in fields such as biology, medicine, physics, artificial life, telepresence, body sensors, vr, artificial intelligence, and information systems. http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~swilson |