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This chapter describes the artistic journey of internationally renowned BioArtist Anna Dumitriu and her artistic process of working on long term laboratory based artistic residencies and collaborations. Dumitriu works at the cutting edge of science, drawing threads across time to explore the history and future of technology, biomedical science, healthcare and ethics. From her fine art training to her work with CRISPR gene editing techniques and antibiotic resistance, her work fuses traditional media such as textiles, sculpture and traditional crafts with new media such as pathogenic bacteria and DNA, to create emotionally affecting objects and installations that are exhibited around the world.
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Dumitriu, A. (2019). Collaborative Journeys in Art and Biology. In: de la Garza, A., Travis, C. (eds) The STEAM Revolution . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89818-6_7
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