School of the Art Institute of Chicago
PROJECTS 2022
SlimeVolt
Benjamin Glass, Yousif Alzayed, Yimei Zhu
SlimeVolt is an artist-led collaborative that seeks to incorporate biological components within electronic systems as a way to rethink human relationships with electronics.
Finalist Team
Instructor 2022
Dr. Andrew Scarpelli
Dr. Andrew Scarpelli is a Chicago science and art professor whose training is in microbiology and synthetic biology. He is a 2020 Global Community Biosummit fellow and SciArt Resident in “The Bridge” program. He is cofounder and president of the community biolab ChiTownBio. He is greatly interested in expanding the utility of biotechnology into fields such as art and social justice.