Dr. Mathee and Xavier Cortada will discuss their art-science collaboration featured in a 2010 show at the Frost Art Museum. Sequentia, the tile of the exhibit,references a series of actions Cortada set in motion to create of a unique strand of DNA. The artist worked with Mathee, a molecular biologist, to synthesize an actual DNA strand made from a sequence generated by museum visitors using Cortada’s art.

Origins of Ideas and Ideas of Origins

Science, Art, & the Integration of Ideas

IDH 1002 – Spring 2013

The Honors College

Florida International University

Can the linking of science and the arts create new knowledge? 

March 5: The Practice of Science-Art: Sequentia

Guest lectures: Xavier Cortada and Kalai Mathee

Dr. Mathee and Xavier Cortada will discuss their art-science collaboration featured in a 2010 show at the Frost Art Museum. Sequentia, the tile of the exhibit,references a series of actions Cortada set in motion to create of a unique strand of DNA. The artist worked with Mathee, a molecular biologist, to synthesize an actual DNA strand made from a sequence generated by museum visitors using Cortada’s art.