What The Heck Is BioArt?

BioArt is a part of what is being called "New Media Art" a field that includes digital art, computer animation, virtual art and computer robotics. A BioArtist, however, makes art with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms and life processes instead of computers. It sounds gross, but if you look at this image that has been created with 8 fluorescent proteins, it's pretty cool. Fluorescent proteins were first isolated from jellyfish, but have since been mutated to create all the different colors that you see in this image that looks like a neon beach sign. Science, art and technology are getting so intertwined that Harvard University's Department of Cell Biology encourages anyone to submit works that they believe posess scientific or artistic value. While this sounds more like science fiction to me, it is the real world we live in today  - a world that is changing rapidly all around us.