User:Drbrian

Dr Brian Degger is scientist with a PhD in molecular biotechnology. He is a part of a wide-spread international network of Australian Art/Science practitioners, he started participation in arts projects by attending New Media masterclasses run by the Australian Network for Art and Technology and working with Blast Theory on “I LIke Frank in Adelaide”. He works with artists to realise projects (lablife, Brighton), to introduce them to new materials (dissection class, bioplastics making), and has participated in research and development residencies in Berlin (DE), Madrid (ES), Brighton (UK), Newcastle(UK), Romainmontier (CH) and Kilpisjarvi(FI). He uses and writes on scientific and open source methodologies to creatively explore research such as DIYBiology, bacterial cultivation, fermentation and planktons. throught the development of workshops