Award winning artists, researchers and curators Oron Catts(Finland, 1967) and Ionat
Zurr (UK, 1970) formed the internationally renowned Tissue Culture and Art Project. They have been artists in residence at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology since 1996 and were central to the establishment of SymbioticA in 2000. They are considered pioneers in the field of biological arts and are often invited as keynote speakers and exhibition curators. They publish extensively, exhibit internationally, and their work has been included in the collection of MoMA New York. Catts is the cofounder and director of SymbioticA at the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at UWA. Dr Ionat Zurr, who received her PhD from the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, UWA − is a researcher and SymbioticA’s academic coordinator. SymbioticA won the inaugural Prix Ars Electronica, Golden Nica in Hybrid Art Category. They have recently exhibited as part of the Medicine and Art exhibition at the Mori Museum in Tokyo, and at Design and Elastic Mind exhibition, MoMA NY. In April 2009, they were recognized by the Icon Magazine (UK) as being among the top 20 Designers, “making the future and transforming the way we work.”