Two Faculty Members Featured in Newest Issue of Art in America

March 2022 cover for *Art in America*. Image courtesy of *Art in America*

March 2022 cover for *Art in America*. Image courtesy of *Art in America*

In the March 2022 issue of Art in America, Professor Claire Pentecost wrote a feature on bio art and its importance in the world today. In the article, entitled “Symbiotic Art,” Pentecost discusses Professor Eduardo Kac (MFA 1990) and his contributions to early bio art, including his project GFP Bunny (2000), a rabbit genetically engineered to glow green. “Over the last few decades, bio art has gone forth and multiplied, enlarging its purview from synthetic biology to incorporate environmental concerns,” Pentecost wrote. “Artists have been taking cues from the evolving field of biology itself, which has been upturning some of our cherished ideas about the ways that organisms exist, evolve, and cohabit in a dynamic earth system now threatened with irreversible anthropogenic disruptions.”