February 29, 2016 - 19:49
A thread I would like to keep thinking about as the semester continues is the accessbility of information. The bioart portion of the CCW collaboration was born out of a desire to make science accessible to a non-scientist public, but I have yet to fully wrap my head around what that means. I think that in the moments of actualy doing the project in the lab I ended up focusing more on physical accessibility than conceptual accessibility. Although, I don't really think those are two separate goals - we had one moment in lab where the physical iPhone microscope adapter totally conveyed the concept of what a microscope can do to one of the CCW artists. Within the world of science, of medicine, of academia, of art and really any world of information I think it is valuable to consider what kinds of gate keeping practices those working within the world can use to share their work with those operating outside of it.