UNIVERSITY CITY SCIENCE CENTER BIOART RESIDENCY PROJECT AT INTEGRAL MOLECULAR U NIVERSITY CITY SCIENCE CENTER BIOART RESIDENCY PROJECT AT INTEGRAL MOLECULAR GENEROUSLY FUNDED BY: 2019 WINNER OF Business + Arts Partnership Award ORGANIZED BY: BIOART RESIDENCY PROJECT TABLE OF CONTENTS “ON A DAILY BASIS, SCIENTISTS EVERYWHERE HAVE AN IMPACT ON MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH, YET MUCH OF THIS IS NOT VISIBLE OUTSIDE THE SCIENTIFIC OUR TEAM 06 COMMUNITY. WE HOPE THIS PROGRAM WILL BEGIN CHANGING THIS BY PROMOTING ARTISTS 08 SCIENTIFIC ENGAGEMENT WITH THE GENERAL PUBLIC.” A well-suited partnership by angela mcquillan 13 -BEN DORANZ, CEO INTEGRAL MOLECULAR THE ART OF SCIENCE by BEN DORANZ 15 a scientist‘s perspective by TOM CHARPENTIER 17 In 2017, the University City of how art – in this case, the Science Center, in partnership visual arts – and science can artists in the lab by cindy stockton moore 20 with biotech company Integral converge to communicate Molecular, established a new complex scientific concepts in artist-in-residence program a profound yet clear manner. known as the BioArt Residency. This program is designed The BioArt Residency was to get people excited about designed to improve the science; to educate the public understanding of science and about new developments in biotechnology in all of our biotechnology; and to explore lives, foster a creative dialog not only the health aspects, between artists and scientists, but also the social and cultural and create a direct positive implications of scientific impact on human health. This development. residency is an ideal example » COVER IMAGE: Oxytocin filled glass blown vials part of Heather Dewey Hagborg‘s Lovesick Project, credit: Tabb Sullivan » IMAGE: Photograph from “Needle in a Haystack”, artist book by Laura Splan » BOOK DESIGN: Angela McQuillan 04 05 BIOART RESIDENCY PROJECT OUR TEAM ANGELA MCQUILLAN - RESIDENCY DIRECTOR BEN DORANZ - PRESIDENT & CEO, INTEGRAL MOLECULAR Angela McQuillan is an artist and the curator of the Science Ben Doranz is President and CEO of Integral Molecular. Dr. Center’s Esther Klein Gallery. With both scientific and Doranz co-founded the company in 2001 and has led all artistic backgrounds, Angela spent ten years working as a aspects of the company’s growth since its inception, bringing research scientist before pursuing an artistic career. With a five different technologies from research to market and specific focus in biology, she is well versed in the technical growing the company into a profitable commercial entity. He aspects of scientific discourse as well as the creative side is an inventor on six of the company’s patents, the principal of art and exhibition making, and has curated over thirty art investigator on over 20 NIH grants, and an author on over 100 exhibitions to date. Her work has been featured in prominent publications, including articles published in Cell, Science, and publications such as The New York Times, Forbes and SciArt Nature. in America. Dr. Doranz is an established life science entrepreneur previously responsible for directing the biotechnology MINA ZARFSAZ - RESIDENCY COORDINATOR program at the Port of Technology business incubator in Philadelphia and helping create startups at the Center for Technology Transfer at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Mina Zarfsaz is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and system Doranz earned a Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from thinker who works across the fields of art, philosophy, digital the University of Pennsylvania where he led the discovery of technology, and design. She has worked for a diverse range the coreceptor for HIV (CCR5), an MBA at the Wharton School of organizations and educational institutions in different of Business where he won the business plan competition and capacities, from an educator, a mentor, to a curriculum co-founded the Penn Biotech Group, and a B.A. at Cornell designer and R&D coordinator. She has also been engaged University. with the MixLab‘s research in the field of Innovation Design at the Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship of Montclair State University for over two years. Zarfsaz currently lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and holds teaching appointments at Temple University, and Moore College of Art and Design. 06 07 BIOART RESIDENCY PROJECT ARTISTS ORKAN TELHAN LAURA SPLAN 2017 2018 embroidered lace embroidered Doilies (Hepadna), computerized machine 30-day Microbial Simit Diet » » Orkan Telhan is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher whose investigations Laura Splan’s transdisciplinary work explores intersections of art, science, and technology. focus on the design of interrogative objects, interfaces, and media, engaging with critical Her conceptually based projects examine the material manifestations of our mutable issues in social, cultural, and environmental responsibility. relationship with the human body. She reconsiders representations of the corporeal with a range of traditional and new media techniques. Telhan is Associate Professor of Fine Arts - Emerging Design Practices at University of Pennsylvania, School of Design. He holds a PhD in Design and Computation from MIT‘s Splan‘s work has been exhibited at venues including at Museum of Arts & Design (New Department of Architecture. He was part of the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media York, NY) and Beall Center for Art + Technology (Irvine, CA). Her work is included Laboratory and a researcher at the MIT Design Laboratory. He studied Media Arts at the in the collections of the Thoma Art Foundation and the NYU Langone Art Collection. State University of New York at Buffalo and theories of media and representation, visual Commissioned projects have included soap residue paintings for the Centers for Disease studies and Graphic Design at Bilkent University, Ankara. Control Foundation, lace microbial forms for the Gen Art New Media Art Exhibition, and 3D printed sculptures addressing representations of HIV/AIDS for Davidson College. Telhan‘s individual and collaborative work has been exhibited internationally in venues Reviews and articles including her work have appeared in The New York Times and including the Istanbul Biennial (2013), Istanbul Design Biennial (2012, 2016), Milano Design Discover Magazine. Splan’s essays and interviews have been published in Art Practical, Week, Vienna Design Week, the Armory Show 2015 Special Projects, Ars Electronica SciArt Magazine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Her research (2007, 2017), ISEA, LABoral, Archilab, Architectural Association, the Architectural League of and residencies have been supported by the Jerome Foundation, the Pollock- Krasner New York, MIT Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the New Museum of Foundation, the Institute for Electronic Arts. She has been a lecturer on intersections of Art, Contemporary Art, New York. Science, and Technology at Stanford University. 08 09 BIOART RESIDENCY PROJECT ARTISTS DEIRDRE MURPHY HEATHER DEWEY-HAGBORG 2018 2018 Stranger Visions Song Catcher, Oil on Canvas, 30“ x 30“ » » Deirdre Murphy has been researching the effects of climate change on bird migration, Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who is interested in art using the visual data that scientists share with her to conceptualize and execute her as research and critical practice. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the paintings. Her fascination with avian migratory patterns and the effects of global warming project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic have led her research to Hawk Mountain Bird Sanctuary, Powdermill Nature Reserve and material (hair, cigarette butts, chewed up gum) collected in public places. Drexel University’s Academy of Natural Science and most recently the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge. Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, the Daejeon Biennale, the Guangzhou Triennial, and the Shenzhen Murphy has exhibited internationally and extensively in the United States in museums, Urbanism and Architecture Biennale, the Van Abbemuseum, Transmediale and PS1 galleries and institutions including Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Delaware, Minnesota, MOMA. Her work is held in public collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Washington and Oregon. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Albert Museum, and the New York Historical Society, among others, and has been widely Philadelphia International Airport, Palm Springs Museum of Art, Biggs Museum of discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to Art Forum and Wired. American Art, New Bedford Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. The recipient of numerous awards and grants, Heather has a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is an artist most notably a Percent for the Arts sculpture commission (Dublin, CA), the Pennsylvania fellow at AI Now, an Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium, as well as The Science Council for the Arts Fellowship and a Leeway Foundation award and most recently at Center, and is an affiliate of Data & Society. She is also a co-founder and co-curator of Ecotopian Toolkit Award through the University of Pennsylvania. REFRESH, an inclusive and politically engaged collaborative platform at the intersection of Art, Science, and Technology. 010 011 BIOART RESIDENCY PROJECT A WELL-SUITED PARTNERSHIP