Dulbecco (b. 1985) is a Costa Rican emerging BioArtist, whose works are abstractions and allegories of the macroscopic world into the microscopic/molecular universe and vice versa, focusing on what he describes as “inherent philosophical issues of postmodernity ”. He implements photomicrography of microorganisms and mammalian cells to express his art, also combining it with digital tools to create full audiovisual works. Dulbecco blends science and art by repurposing cutting-edge cell biology laboratory techniques to tackle artistic questionings. For example, he applies genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology to codify different colors into animal cells and make them glow for artistic purposes by the expression of fluorescent proteins, a concept he has named “recombinant hues”.

Dulbecco proposes a new trend in BioArt, which not only uses biological elements in the technique, but also involves social and cultural aspects of the viewer in the artistic process. His background is biological sciences with more than sixteen years of experience as researcher for the Research Center on Tropical Diseases of the University of Costa Rica. Dulbecco has published several original articles in scientific journals, describing new molecular tools that he has developed for research in Virology and that he has also applied in the creation of his own artistic works. Currently he is cathedratic professor in Cell & Molecular Biology at the Microbiology Faculty of the University of Costa Rica.