Frontmatter 1 Contents 4 Managing creative disturbances 7 Creative mis/understandings: expectations, outcomes, and frictions in asymmetric art/science encounters 22 About 35 Artist x Laboratory 38 Tobacco: a mass of atoms, a biofactory, and a generous friend 40 Tobacco research through different lenses: reflections on the influences of art in science 80 About 87 Artist x Laboratory 90 Making music with enzymes 92 Rewriting the symphony of life with synthetic metabolism - can enzymes play music? 106 About 115 Artist x Laboratory 118 Multiscalar forms of resistance: the molecular switch, the bacterium, the individual and the state 120 Towards a new covenant with nature - starred by environmental microorganisms 140 Artist x Laboratory 152 Souls from the deep: a survey through a sticky universe 154 Breathing life into inorganic alien matter 168 Friction gains in art & science collaboration: more than noise 175 Contributors 191 Image Credits 196.