The Tissue Culture and Art Project (initiated in 1996), is an on-going artistic research and development project into the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression. The project is based in The University of Western Australia. Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr have received a grant, from the New Media Arts Fund of the Australia Council, for a one-year residency in the lab. Where they are researching further the possibilities of creating tissue engineered based art.
Tissue engineering holds much promise for improving the quality of human life. However, tissue engineering for artistic purposes has largely been overlooked. We are growing tissue sculptures, "semi-living" objects, by culturing cells on artificial scaffolds in bioreactors. Ultimately, the goal of this work is to culture and sustain, for long periods, tissue constructs of varying geometrical complexity and size, and by that creating a new artistic palette. To learn more about

The Tissue Culture and Art Project