From Our Archives: Tal Danino & Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz. Diffuse Salmonella, Courtesy of Bernardaud.

Vik Muniz. Tip-Splitting Morphotype, Courtesy of Bernardaud.

Vik Muiz, Motherboard, Colonies, 2014.

Vik Muiz, Motherboard, Colonies, 2014.

Vik Muniz. Chiral Colony, Courtesy of Bernardaud

This interview originally appeared in Musée Magazine’s Issue No. 14 - Science & Technology.

ANDREA BLANCH: As a cancer researcher and synthetic biologist, what inspired you to turn these cells into art?

TAL DANINO: …when you get into the words and the details of explaining the science, people get lost very quickly. Not because they’re not capable; it’s just not an everyday language that we use. It’s a little bit isolating to learn about sciences in that way, but there’s something about the arts that makes our research and science more palatable, a lot easier to understand.

You can read the rest of the interview in Musée Magazine’s Issue No. 14 - Science & Technology.