METABOLIC SKIES
Patricia Olynyk is an artist, writer, and educator whose work explores science and technology-related themes and the ways in which social systems and institutional structures shape our understanding of the world. In 2007, she was appointed inaugural director of the unified Graduate School of Art and Florence and Frank Bush Professor of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University. She is Producer of the Creative Disturbance Podcast Series, Emergent Habitability, a program that explores the dynamic entanglement of humans, technologies, and cultural systems.
Olynyk also co-chairs the Leonardo NY LASER Talks program in New York with Ellen K. Levy. Her work has been featured in exhibitions and museums internationally, including the Los Angeles Biennial, The Brooklyn Museum, Venice Design 2018 at Palazzo Michiel dalle Colonne, the Saitama Modern Art Museum, Ars Electronica, Linz, Vienna Art Week, and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Her writing is included in Public Journal (York University), The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture (Routledge Press), Technoetic Arts (Intellect Press), Leonardo Journal (MIT Press), the Angewandte Book Series (DeGruyter), Bio/Matter/Techno Synthetics (Actar Press), and Visions of Scale (Bloomsbury).
Responders
Intermedia artist Meredith Tromble makes installations, drawings, performances, and videos shown nationally and internationally, including at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, Davis, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, and National Academy of Art and Design Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Her artworks investigate imagination and knowledge systems, including science and education, often through interdisciplinary collaboration. She has also published extensively on her own work and the work of others articulating these themes, including her recent publications The New College Circle: The Lifelong Impact of a Creative School (Red Geranium Press, 2026), and Visions of Scale: Contemporary Art and the Technoscientific Universe (Bloomsbury, 2026).
Hannah Star Rogers is an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Medical Museion in the Department of Public Health. Rogers is an Art, Science, and Technology Studies scholar and art-science curator. She holds a PhD from Cornell University in Science and Technology Studies and an MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of Art, Science and the Politics of Knowledge (MIT Press), lead editor of the Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies, and What Curators Know: Art and Science in the Museum (Bloomsbury). Rogers works as a curator for art and science exhibits including “Emerge: Artists and Scientists Redesign the Future” at Arizona State University, “Shadows and Ashes: The Perils of Nuclear Weapons” at Cornell University, and “Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures” at North Carolina State University and the University of Pittsburgh. Her exhibition “Making Science Visible: The Photography of Berenice Abbott,” received an exhibits prize from the British Society for the History of Science and resulted in an invited lecture at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Rogers actively publishes arts criticism and poetry.
Carl Craver is the Clark Way Harrison Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy-Neuroscience-
