Dr Ionatt Zurr is the Chair of the Fine Arts Discipline at the School of Design UWA and SymbioticA’s academic co-ordinator. Zurr is an Australian artist, researcher, curator and lecturer and has been a visiting tutor in Design Interactions for the Royal College of Art. Zurr, together with Oron Catts, founded the Tissue Culture & Art Project in 1996 and is a pioneer of making art with living, engineered tissue. Zurr instigated the Master of Science (Biological Arts), an interdisciplinary program involving both art and biology.