01-03-2022 16:20 via artnews.com

Bio Art: Interspecies Collaborations + Sculpting with Mushrooms + Art for Octopi

Over the past two years, we’ve all had to teach ourselves a little biology. We’ve learned how airborne germs spread, what mRNA is, and that viruses mutate. Simultaneously, many of us have spent months on end distancing ourselves from our fellow humans, communing instead with other species, whether by gardening or adopting pets. Given this abundant interaction among species, a new wave of bio art is blooming.
Bio art is that work made with nonhuman living things, either as materials o
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