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Art meets science: Reuniting the severed cultures

By Liz Else

5 May 2010

Unusually, you’ve been involved in both art and science for some decades. What has changed?

When I started out 40 years ago, scientific research into art and anatomy or art-science was seen as interesting but out of the ordinary. A history of art-science collaborations in the intervening years would show substantial activity around the Wellcome Trust, NESTA and a few very motivated artists and scientists, running alongside an explosion in the number of popular science books. The relatively high level of funding available now in the UK for such collaborations is unusual. My friends in the US lament the fact…

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