Dr. Dilek Ozgit Butler
Dr. Dilek Özgit is an artist and scientist living and working in Cambridge. Born in Istanbul, she was introduced to painting early in life through her father, a painter and sculptor. With a background in science and engineering, Özgit has developed a distinctive abstract visual language that translates lived experience and emotion into structured geometric forms and vivid color fields. Her artistic process is intuitive and immediate, grounded in spontaneity and presence. Alongside her art practice, Özgit is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Zinergy UK Ltd., a company developing ultrathin, flexible, and environmentally responsible printed batteries for next-generation electronics and smart labels. Her work bridges creative expression and technological innovation, reflecting a commitment to sustainability and thoughtful design. She is a self-taught artist and was recently shortlisted for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.
Anna Lindemann
Anna Lindemann is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice merges art and biology through what she calls “Evo Devo Art,” inspired by evolutionary and developmental biology. Working with digital and stop-motion animation, video, performance, and live and electronic music, she visualizes biological processes while exploring the emotional and speculative dimensions of scientific research. Her projects investigate themes such as social evolution, mimicry, flight, and regeneration, translating complex biological ideas into poetic, accessible forms. Lindemann often animates scientific concepts using familiar materials—pasta, yarn, buttons, lace—to render unseen microscopic worlds tangible. Beyond content, biology also shapes her creative process: she develops algorithmic music and visuals modeled on biological growth and development. Blending rigorous research with elements of fantasy and narrative, her work invites audiences to rethink science as a deeply human endeavor. Lindemann’s projects have been presented across theaters, museums, planetariums, conferences, classrooms, and film festivals, reaching diverse scientific and public audiences.
Eric Fong
Eric Fong is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice sits at the intersection of art, science, and medicine, shaped by his former career as a medical doctor. Working across photography, film, sculpture, and installation, his research-driven approach often involves close collaboration with specialists and communities. Fong’s work addresses themes such as mental illness, disfigurement, blindness, forensics, and the phantom limb phenomenon, combining clinical insight with empathetic observation. Recent projects examine Victorian asylum archives and abandoned burial sites, as well as forensic anthropology and crime scene investigation, resulting in haunting works that explore absence, loss, and entropy. His work has been exhibited widely across the UK and internationally and is held in public and private collections.
Elena Soterakis
Elena Soterakis is an interdisciplinary artist exploring environmental degradation, technology, and our connection to the natural world through painting, sculpture, and large-scale installations. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Museum of Art and Design Atlanta, and Matsudo Science and Art Festival. She is a founding member and Director of Creative Productions for Beyond Earth, a women-led collective creating space-bound artworks, including *Living Light* (2021) launched with Space Perspective. Elena also co-founded BioBAT Art Space in Brooklyn, a gallery dedicated to the intersections of art, science, and technology, and co-initiated the Great Pause Project, documenting global experiences during COVID-19. Soterakis holds an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts, and has taught at Suffolk County Community College and CUNY.
Rachael Nee
Rachael Nee is a professional artist with over 20 years of experience creating, exhibiting, and teaching internationally. Fascinated by the interface of art and science, she explores physics—the “Wonder” science—through themes of energy, entropy, scale, time, and matter. Her projects include a potato-powered cosmos at CERN, a pollution-fed exhaust pipe organ, and a Geiger counter–driven synthesizer. Nee combines art, electronics, and sound, teaching herself Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Python to expand her creative practice and workshops. Passionate about making science accessible and inspiring underrepresented voices, she merges playfulness with rigor, aiming to share the awe of scientific discovery. Her work continues to engage audiences worldwide while her online studio will soon offer products supporting these goals.
Nimrod Astarhan
Nimrod Astarhan is an artist, technologist, and scholar. Their research-creation in sculpture and media art was exhibited worldwide and on the International Space Station. Recent showings include ISEA, the Gwangju Biennial Pavilion Project, Ars Electronica, and The Ammerman Center Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology. They received grants and awards from the Municipal Arts League of Chicago and the Arts, Science + Culture Initiative at the University of Chicago, and their work was a finalist for the Lumen Prize. Nimrod holds an MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They taught digital art, code, hardware, and critical theory at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, China Academy of Art, and Shenkar College of Engineering, Art, and Design.
Helen Cook
Helen Cook is a Cambridge-based artist, community activist, and founding director of the Resilience Web, a directory of place-based groups advancing sustainability and social justice. They facilitate the Cambridge Care Collective, a weekly disability peer-support group, and leads two community book clubs focused on transition, resilience, and Doughnut Economics. Trained as a biologist, with a Master’s and PhD in computational biology, Cook brings scientific observation and curiosity into her watercolor practice. Living with chronic migraine has shaped their attention to moments of joy, care, and wonder in the natural world. Their work uses foraged, handmade, and low-impact materials, treating paper and pigment as active participants rather than neutral tools. Exploring themes of ecology, disability, and belonging, Cook’s practice reflects a commitment to justice, care and life on a finite planet.
Andrew Werth
Andrew Werth is an abstract painter whose practice is deeply informed by long-standing interests in consciousness, perception, psychology, and the philosophy and science of mind. His paintings explore ideas such as embodiment, metaphor, and mental “strange loops,” examining how bodily structure shapes how we see, think, and understand the world. Built through a slow, meditative process of thousands of individual brushstrokes, his works draw on maze-like markings to investigate color interaction, perceptual effects, and layered abstraction. Werth’s compositions invite sustained looking, revealing new relationships from different distances, angles, and lighting conditions. His background includes studies in philosophy of mind and cognitive psychology at The New School, alongside degrees in computer engineering and information networking from Carnegie Mellon University.
Ivan Amato
Ivan Amato is a science and technology writer, editor, communicator, podcaster, and public-engagement professional based in South Orange, New Jersey. His work is driven by the belief that science’s greatest gift is its ability to inspire awe by revealing how nature works. Amato has written and edited for leading publications including Time, Nature, Science, Quanta, Discover, and Chemical & Engineering News, where he served as managing editor. He has advised institutions such as PCAST and DARPA, hosted science podcasts, and founded science café series. Alongside his writing, Amato practices crystal photomicrography, using microscopy to reveal the unexpected beauty of chemical and material structures.
Eleonora Adami
Eleonora Adami is a postdoctoral research fellow trained in molecular biology and genomics whose practice bridges scientific research and illustration. Rejecting the divide between art and science, she uses visual storytelling to clarify complex biological processes and improve public science communication. By integrating illustration into her research, she creates accessible, precise visuals that counter misinformation and engage wider audiences. Beyond the lab, she is an active advocate for diversity and inclusion in STEM, contributing to science outreach initiatives that highlight women scientists and support underrepresented communities. Having worked across multiple countries, she values interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collaboration as essential to both scientific rigor and creative insight.