The mixture of art and biotech is one often debated as it frequently comes with moral dilemmas. Biotech is often seen through the lense of being done for scientific innovation but a recent movement has been created that uses biotech to push the boundaries of artistic expression. Biotech has made living organisms an expressive medium for art which has brought upon ethical quarderies with it.
I do not believe the question of valuing scientific industry/academia more or less than biotech can be shorted to an easily simplified answer. I think biotech should be valued highly in the scientific sense but little in the artistic sense. I do not mean to devalue the products of the combination of biotech and art but when the choice is between artistic expression and the potential to advance human livelihood I believe that biotech and science in combination is more valuable. Therefore, I think academia/industry should be valued over a mix of art and biotech but should either be valued the same or under the combination of science and biotech becuase of biotechs higher potential than academia/industry.
I believe art has a place in biotech involving "using biotech to demystify biotech", meaning that art can be used to illustrate the impact biotech experiments could have or what certain results could mean for the future. It also can be used to push the definitions of science, an example of this being how "some artists are challenging accepting classification of life." While using biotech to push the limits of art may be intriguing and beautiful, the alternative to spending time doing this are much more valuable to the advancement of human civilization than art. Arts true value in biotech belongs in making biotech digistable to the majority of unknowledgeable people and pushing the boundaries of science.
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