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.
Hanae Utamura
Hanae Utamura is a Japanese interdisciplinary artist and an educator based in New York and Tokyo. Her work engages with historical memory, questioning the notion of progress in modernity, ecology and technology. Utamura’s media include video, performance, installation, and sculpture. She connects human beings and earth, using the physical human body as a conduit. She explores negotiations and conflicts between the human and the non-human, and how all the varieties of the wills of life manifest such as in the field of science. By decentralizing the human perspective, Utamura diversifies historical narratives, and enters the imagination of nature. She received her Master of Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, and her Bachelor Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Utamura has received support through numerous international residencies and fellowships including Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen, Germany), Art Omi (Hudson, U.S.), Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, Aomori Contemporary Art Center (Japan), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Changdong Art Studio (Seoul, S.Korea), Seoul Art Space_GEUMCHEON (Seoul, S.Korea), Florence Trust (London, U.K.) and more. She has been awarded More Art Engaging Artist Fellowship, NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, Shiseido Art Egg Award, Grant program by the Japanese Ministry of Culture, the Pola Art Foundation, UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary Award, and Axis/Florence Trust Award. And has been exhibited extensively in Asia, Europe and U.S. She was a visiting scholar at New York University in 2019, supported by Japanese Ministry of Culture, Japanese government as a part of Japan – United States Exchange Friendship Program in the Art.
Zoe Iris
Zoe Iris Venema, is a professionally trained ballet dancer interested biomechanics, mathematics, and artistic expression. With training in Canada and Europe, she channels her curiosity to connect communities through movement and collaborative engagement.
Dr. Adriana G. Prat
Adriana G. Prat is an artist, curator, and scientist with a PhD in Biophysics from the University of Buenos Aires. Originally from Argentina, she developed an early interest in the environment, which influenced her scientific and later artistic pursuits. After moving to the U.S., Adriana transitioned to art, eventually using it as a way to inspire action for the environmental crisis. In her art practice, Adriana is influenced by her scientific experience and environmental facts in her creative experimentation. She works on alternative painting supports such as corrugated cardboard and repurposed canvases, and explores textiles, assemblage, and mixed media using discarded materials. Adriana often creates abstract topographies that can be imagined on both microscopic and macroscopic scales. At the microscopic level, her work evokes cellular structures, while at the macroscopic level, it resembles geographies of land and ocean, reflecting the pressures of human exploitation and environmental change. Adriana’s work has been exhibited internationally, including galleries in Reykjavík, London, and Melbourne. She is a juried member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA), among others. In addition to her studio work in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she curates exhibitions that connect art and science to raise awareness of climate change and sustainability.
Lindsay Olson
Lindsay Olson is an interdisciplinary artist interested in how science and technology support modern culture. She uses textiles, drawing, and mixed media to translate complex scientific ideas into accessible visual works that help audiences engage with fields ranging from particle physics to ecology and infrastructure. Lindsay holds a BA in Fine Arts from Columbia College Chicago, where she later taught in the Fashion Studies Department for more than twenty years. Her projects begin with direct engagement inside labs and research centres, where she studies the tools, data, and problem-solving methods that shape scientific work. Lindsay served as Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s first artist in residence and has collaborated with scientists at the Field Museum, the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, and the University of Indiana Northwest. These partnerships inform her material choices and design strategies, grounding her artwork in real scientific practice. Her work has been featured in science and art publications and exhibited in museums, galleries, and academic venues. She is currently the first artist in residence with the Pacific Northwest National Lab and The Wetlands Initiative. Ongoing and upcoming projects explore ocean acoustics, water infrastructure, and other systems that shape human and environmental health.