Julia Pollack: Collaborative Ecologies

By: Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences

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Synopsis: From November 6, 2023, through June 7, 2024, Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences presented the exhibition Julia Pollack: Collaborative Ecologies. This catalog documents the exhibition which featured bodies of work focused on honeybee colonies and microbial communities. Pollack, a curator, and creator at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, makes art based on her conversations and collaborations with scientists and staff. When she engages in dialogues with researchers at IGB, she immerses herself in their work and then uses that information along with related imagery to build concepts for her artistic interpretations. Pollack's work highlights the power and aesthetics of science imagery while revealing the hidden labor of research and knowledge production. The work in this exhibition is part of the IGB’s Art of Science program, currently in its fourteenth year. It celebrates common ground between science and art and is representative of IGB’s mission to bring science to the community. This catalog includes an essay by Ananya Sen, Science Writer at IGB.