Animating Development

Science and art share a common past and rich potential for a more synergistic future. Through my research, I seek to demonstrate how the bonds between biology and the arts have remained despite their institutional and cultural separation and how the arts can transform scientific research. My book project, Animating Development: A History Through the Microscope, explores visual making and knowing in the history of developmental biology–formerly called embryology–and its connections cinematic animation across visual media—including drawing, photographing, filming, and 3D modeling.