BioArt is a new discipline where artists employ materials and techniques of modern life sciences and create novel meanings of biology, often involving living organisms such as tissue culture, bacteria and yeasts, which may also be genetically engineered. The authors have engaged in a collaboration to develop ‘Fermenting Futures’, a project designed to explore the significance of yeast for early human history by enabling baking and brewing, all the way to industrial biotechnology and synthetic biology with their potential contributions to fight the climate change. Research in two of the authors’ lab provides the materials and thematic lines for the artists to develop their installations. The two main pieces reflect on fermentation as a metabolic trait of baker's yeast and its enormous transformational power for human society, and on the application of synthetic biology to enable yeast to grow and produce materials from carbon dioxide. The role of BioArt to support public engagement and science dissemination is discussed, highlighting the importance of collaborations of scientists and artists on equal terms, as showcased here.

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发酵的未来：酵母生物技术的艺术观点

生物艺术是一门新学科，艺术家利用现代生命科学的材料和技术，创造生物学的新意义，通常涉及组织培养、细菌和酵母等活的有机体，也可能是基因工程的。作者参与了开发“发酵期货”的合作项目，该项目旨在通过支持烘焙和酿造，探索酵母对人类早期历史的重要性，一直到工业生物技术和合成生物学，以及它们对对抗气候的潜在贡献改变。两位作者实验室的研究为艺术家们开发他们的装置提供了材料和主题线。这两篇主要作品反映了发酵作为面包酵母的一种代谢特性及其对人类社会的巨大变革力量，以及应用合成生物学使酵母能够从二氧化碳中生长和生产材料。讨论了生物艺术在支持公众参与和科学传播方面的作用，强调了科学家和艺术家平等合作的重要性，如此处所示。