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Un nombre croissant de projets associent artistes et scientifiques. Pourquoi cet attrait réciproque? Les chercheurs disent y gagner en recul sur leurs pratiques, tandis que les artistes trouvent des sujets nouveaux.

Un nombre croissant de projets associent artistes et scientifiques. Pourquoi cet attrait réciproque? Les chercheurs disent y gagner en recul sur leurs pratiques, tandis que les artistes trouvent des sujets nouveaux.

Take a quick tour through the C-suite of any major corporation today, and there’s a good chance you’ll see some titles that weren’t there a few years ago: chief data officer, chief data scientist, chief analytics officer, to name just a few.

FOR the past year or so genetic scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have been collaborating with a specialist from another universe: Daniel Kohn, a Brooklyn-based painter and conceptual artist.

Artist Daniel Kohn spent eight years painting alongside scientists as they worked with test tubes and gene sequencers at the Broad Institute.