Cross-Pollinated Hybrid Art Abuzz

The theme of cross-pollination is explored here in ways both obvious and surprising. Artists consider the idea in its most traditional sense-the interdependency of bees and flowers and in the rich vein of creativity found in collaboration between artists and scientists. But also in how traditional fine arts crafts and performing arts have merged to form hybrid works and the manner in which contemporary digital technologies collide with age-old hand crafted processes. A number of artists represented here explore how animation has jumped off of the screen to interact with the mediums of dance sculpture performance or installation.