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In the Coalesce lab you will have access to a sterile hood, multiple fume hoods, an anaerobic glove-box, a gassing station, a large thermocycler, an autoclave, incubators, water baths, electrophoresis equipment, DNA transilluminators, a digital imaging station, a bioinformatics station, centrifuges, dissecting and compound microscopes, and other equipment.

UB is a premiere research institution that contains hundreds of facilities across the arts and sciences for imaging, analysis, processing, visualization, machining and fabrication of all kinds with which researchers are encouraged to engage. Coalesce residents will have access to many of these services, including Sanger and next-generation sequencing, spectroscopy, electron, confocal and fluorescence microscopy, and many others. 

• Each resident artist will pair with a scientist at UB who will advise broadly on a strategy to complete the work and assist with the process of ensuring environmental health and safety compliance. 
• Residents will have access to the research laboratory.
• Coalesce staff will provide training, assistance and consultation.
• Residents will have access to a range of university services for the duration of their residency.
• Residents will present their work at least once during Coalesce monthly discussion forums or lectures, and conduct a one-day workshop.

• Since the mid-1970s, environmental and atomic activists, feminist, post-modern and post-colonial scholars, have raised questions about the context of scientific knowledge. In 1979, science and technology studies scholars, Bruno Latour and Stephen Woolgar authored Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts. The book outlined and demonstrated a method for following scientists into laboratories to better understand the processes, practices, and local contexts of scientific knowledge-making. Later, Science and Technology Studies scholar Karin Knorr Cetina argued that direct-observation in labs and participant-observer techniques, wherein the analyst participates in the practices and culture of the laboratory, allows us to grasp the ways that technical choices, protocols, and outcomes are social processes.
• These were the early rumblings of what would become Actor Network Theory (ANT), developed by Michel Callon, John Law, Madeleine Akrich, and Bruno Latour, as an approach for understanding science as a collective social process. Their findings suggested that the making of scientific knowledge involves collective understandings akin to furthering a legal argument, rather than a hegemonic authority of truth. By asking “how is science done”, rather than “what science is”, the authors reframe an intractable polarized debate. Since that time, Science and Technology Studies scholars, under the banner of Art, Science, and Technology Studies (2021), have begun to take in more artistic methods, including making and doing practices, artistic research, and tools from art history and visual culture.
• These are some of the histories that inform our 2025 theme, Laboratories and Life. Though Bruno Latour passed away in 2022, his recent curatorial projects, such as Making Things Public, in collaboration with Peter Weibel at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, highlight his belief in the importance of creative practitioners in visualizing and challenging processes of knowledge production, and openness to what counted as knowledge production, which included aesthetics.

Proposals will be evaluated on quality and originality, feasibility, and applicability to our community strengths: genomics, environment and microbiome.