Coalesce: Center for Biological Art

Coalesce: Center for Biological Art It is a place where artists, designers and architects actively learn, use and create, using life sciences technologies as their medium.

Coalesce is a place where artists, designers and architects actively learn, use and create, using life sciences technologies as their medium; scientists explore new forms or broader cultural meanings of their work; and philosophers, writers and social scientists interact in a tangible way with the processes of the life sciences. However, it is a place where such disciplinary labels are challenged and hybrid creative practices are incubated.

Spring Resident Chanhee Choi will be hosting a talk tomorrow afternoon at UAlbany on the intersection of neuroscience an...
05/26/2026

Spring Resident Chanhee Choi will be hosting a talk tomorrow afternoon at UAlbany on the intersection of neuroscience and artmaking. The talk and discussion will be accessible via zoom. Please register at the link in our profile page!

Full statement:
“EDGE is an international community of neuroscientists, artists, and interdisciplinary thinkers that actively amplifies research, creative projects, and scientific dialogue while fostering collaboration at the intersection of neuroscience and art.
We are excited to invite you to UAlbany’s first EDGE NeuroArt Nexus event on May 27th from 1:00–2:30 PM (ET), hosted in the D’Ambra Auditorium at the Life Sciences Research building of UAlbany and online for our global community.
Our guest speaker, Dr. Chanhee Choi (Assistant Professor of Digital Arts at UAlbany), is an internationally recognized artist and educator whose work spans experimental animation, XR, video games, and bio-sensor-driven interactive installations.
Dr. Choi will present her ongoing Remembrance project, which transforms dementia patient data into poetry, visual media, and interactive environments through brainwave sensors and customized bio-integrated technologies to explore memory, technology, and human experience.
This hybrid event will bring together students, faculty, artists, and researchers for an engaging talk, discussion, and networking opportunity focused on neuroscience, art, and emerging technology. Light refreshments will also be provided thanks to the Life Sciences Research at UAlbany.“

Calling all interdisciplinary artists! The Coalesce Biological Art Lab Artist in Resident applications are open until Ju...
05/18/2026

Calling all interdisciplinary artists! The Coalesce Biological Art Lab Artist in Resident applications are open until June 5, 2026. The residency will take place in the Coalesce Lab at University at Buffalo’s North Campus between August and December of 2026. Please visit our website or contact Director Paul Vanouse for more information.

Applications for the 2026-27 Artist Residency at Coalesce are open until June 5, 2026! Please visit our website for addi...
05/14/2026

Applications for the 2026-27 Artist Residency at Coalesce are open until June 5, 2026! Please visit our website for additional information.

That’s a wrap on the Spring 2026 semester! We’d like to share one more glimpse into Paul Vanouse’s Art & Life course: a ...
05/06/2026

That’s a wrap on the Spring 2026 semester! We’d like to share one more glimpse into Paul Vanouse’s Art & Life course: a behind-the-scenes look at this semester’s chromatography lab.

Images taken by Bella Rosenthal

2023 MFA Grad and former Coalesce Resident Walker Tufts () is bringing Pickles and Concrete back to New York! Join him f...
11/13/2025

2023 MFA Grad and former Coalesce Resident Walker Tufts () is bringing Pickles and Concrete back to New York! Join him for the opening at Flux IV in New York City this Saturday at 6pm. The show will be open until on view until December 14.

Last week our BioArt students experimented with pGLO, a plasmid which, when combined with arabinose and ampicillin, caus...
11/05/2025

Last week our BioArt students experimented with pGLO, a plasmid which, when combined with arabinose and ampicillin, causes E. coli colonies to glow fluorescent green.

We are excited to announce that first-year grad student Reese Betts () has been accepted into the non-competing exhibiti...
10/29/2025

We are excited to announce that first-year grad student Reese Betts () has been accepted into the non-competing exhibition for the 2025 in Jyväskylä, Finland. “Brood” is currently being projected once daily onto Jyväskylä City Hall, which will continue into November.

This is the second half of documentation from students’ Project 2 submissions. They were tasked with the goal of creatin...
10/15/2025

This is the second half of documentation from students’ Project 2 submissions. They were tasked with the goal of creating introductory BioArt works on the aesthetics of care utilizing bacteria subcultures.

Artists:
Tristan Walbesser
Dana Hunt-Locklear
Darmelle Esterlin
Noor Rahmany
Holden Treadway
Camellia Higgins
Jiaye You

Last week students presented their second projects of the semester in Paul Vanouse’s BioArt course. They were tasked wit...
10/08/2025

Last week students presented their second projects of the semester in Paul Vanouse’s BioArt course. They were tasked with creating work about the aesthetics of care utilizing bacteria subcultures. Keep an eye out for more student work later this week!

Work by:
Millie Coughlin
Roscoe Duquette
Reese Betts
Desislava Furber
Valerie Skakun
Deirdre Harder

The Biological Art class took a trip last weekend to conduct field research at the Valentine Flats on the Cattaraugus Ri...
10/01/2025

The Biological Art class took a trip last weekend to conduct field research at the Valentine Flats on the Cattaraugus River to collect samples and identify species of local animal life. With the help of Lab Manager Solon Morse, students found Smooth Green Snakes (Opheodrys vernalis), infant Brown Snakes (Storeria dekayi), and Ring-necked Snakes (Diadophis punctatus), among other species.

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