Drew Berry Explained
Drew Berry (born 1970) is an American biomedical animator at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia. He produces animations of proteins and protein complexes to illustrate cellular and molecular processes.[1]
Education
Berry received a Bachelor of Science (1993) and Master of Science (1995) degrees from the University of Melbourne, and received training in cell biology as well as in light microscopy and electron microscopy.
Career
Since 1995, Berry has been a biomedical animator at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.[2] His 3D and 4D animations have focussed on explaining cellular and molecular processes relevant to research conducted at the institute, in fields including molecular biology, malaria, cell death, cancer biology, hematology and immunology.[3]
Berry's animations have received many awards and commendations. His animations which formed part of Harold Varmus' 'Genes and Jazz' presentation were described by The New Yorker as "astonishingly beautiful".[4] In 2009 American Scientist stated "The admirers of Drew Berry... talk about him the way Cellini talked about Michelangelo."[5] In 2010, the New York Times claimed "If there is a Steven Spielberg of molecular animation, it is probably Drew Berry"[6]
After collaborating with Berry for the Biophilia animated music app, the musician Björk described Berry as "someone who has made scientifically correct animation of DNA… on this project, he has crossed the line beautifully into the artistic realm where he has animated gorgeous DNA but added some poetic licence... he truly has brought magic to our insides, and shows us that we don’t have to look far for the miracle of nature, it is right inside us!"[7]
Awards and recognition
- 2004 BAFTA award for DNA Interactive DVD, UK 2004[8]
- 2005 Emmy Award for DNA documentary series[9]
- 2005 Maya Master Award
- 2006 National Science Foundation Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge first place, noninteractive multimedia[10]
- 2008 Nature Niche Prize[11]
- 2009 Seed Magazine 'Revolutionary Minds'[12]
- 2010 MacArthur Fellowship[13]
- 2016 Honorary Doctor of Technology, Linköping University Sweden[14]
Highlight exhibitions and productions
- 2003 SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater[15]
- 2003 "DNA" project Channel 4, PBS and American Museum of Natural History; Five episode "DNA" documentary series, "DNA: The Secret of Life" museum film, "DNAi" DVD, DNAi.org online education portal http://www.dnai.org/
- 2003 "oZone" Cinema of Tomorrow Experimental Digital Media Art Festival, Pompidou Centre Paris, France[16]
- 2003 International Genetics Congress 2003 opening ceremony performance, Melbourne, Australia[17]
- 2003 Australian Centre for the Moving Image Federation Square ‘Transfigure’ exhibition, Australia[18]
- 2004 Museum of Modern Art (New York) ‘Premieres’ exhibition[19]
- 2004 Queensland Art Gallery "The Nature Machine" exhibition, Brisbane, Australia[20]
- 2004 National Academy of Sciences Koshland Science Museum, USA[21]
- 2005 Visual effects for Doctor Who episode "The End of the World"
- 2006 Rose Center for Earth and Space, American Museum of Natural History, New York
- 2006 Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art ‘Strange Attractors’ exhibition, China[22]
- 2006 Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft Düsseldorf, Museum of Design, exhibition on nanotechnology, Germany[23]
- 2008 20th Century Fox ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’ visual effects, USA[24]
- 2008 Niche Prize exhibition, The Royal Institute of Great Britain, UK[25]
- 2008-09 ‘Genes and Jazz’ at the Guggenheim with Harold Varmus[26]
- 2009 ‘The Cell’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m6nhq BBC documentary series with Dr Adam Rutherford, UK
- 2009 ‘200th birthday of Charles Darwin’ exhibition, Museum of Natural History Stuttgart Germany[27]
- 2009 ‘Genome Dome’ exhibition, University of Geneva, Switzerland[28]
- 2010 Imagine Science Film Festival, New York[29]
- 2011 TEDxCaltech[30]
- 2011 TEDxSydney[31]
- 2011 Björk's Biophilia album Hollow music video and DNA Replication drum machine iPad app[32]
- 2011 Rochester Institute of Technology "Visionaries in Motion" speaker series[33]
- 2011 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's DNAi.org Spliceosome visualization
- 2012 Animations for E.O.Wilson's Life on Earth digital textbook[34]
- 2014 'Virus one billion times' architectural projection show, White Night Melbourne, Australia
- 2015 'Mendel: the Legacy' Brno Abbey architectural mapping live concert, Czech Republic
- 2015 'The Illuminarium' WEHI architectural art installation, Melbourne Australia
- 2016 'The Malaria Lifecycle' wehi.tv, Australia
- 2016 'Biomedical Breakthroughs' Melbourne Museum WEHI exhibition, Australia[35]
- 2018 'The Future Starts Here' V&A South Kensington[36]
- 2018-22 'Respiration' cell biology animations by wehi.tv [37] for HHMI BioInteractive [38]
- 2022 'Virus one million times' Science Gallery exhibition, Melbourne Australia[39]
- 2023 'Chemistry of Life' 8K 3D fulldome film, Norrköping Visualisation Centre, Sweden[40]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Author: Drew Berry. 2014. Interalia Magazine. en-US. 2019-07-11.
- Drew Berry by Colin Martin, The Lancet, Volume 377, Issue 9769, Page 895 http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2811%2960338-3/fulltext 12 March 2011
- http://www.wehi.edu.au/education/wehitv/ WEHI.TV Animations
- Swing Science by Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/12/01/081201ta_talk_goldberger 1 December 2008
- American Scientist, Science Observer: Molecular Movie Stars http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/molecular-movie-stars September–October 2009 Volume 97, Number 5 Page: 382
- Where Cinema and Biology Meet https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/science/16animate.html 15 November 2010.
- http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/11179/1/drew-berrys-bio-animations Drew Berry's Bio-Animations
- Twisted tale of the double helix http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/28/1077677015661.html 29 February 2004
- Animations for the multi-media project, DNA, author Drew Berry, wins Emmy Award http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/31005.php 23 September 2005.
- 2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge winners announced http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/aaft-2sa091806.php 21 September 2006
- Niche Prize winners announced http://blogs.nature.com/london/2008/07/16/niche-prize-winners-announced 16 July 2008
- Revolutionary Minds: The Interpreters: Drew Berry- illuminated manuscripts https://web.archive.org/web/20090330092956/http://revminds.seedmagazine.com/revminds/member/drew_berry April 2009.
- http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.6241243/k.30C1/Drew_Berry.htm 2010 MacArthur Fellows: Drew Berry
- Web site: Six new honorary doctors . 2023-01-23 . liu.se . en.
- Web site: SIGGRAPH 2003, San Diego, Electronic Theater . 30 May 2011 . 8 October 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121008032226/http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/conference/caf/et.html . dead .
- http://www.wehi.edu.au/education/wehitv/about_wehi-tv About WEHI.TV
- http://www.wehi.edu.au/education/wehitv/about_wehi-tv About WEHI.TV
- Drew Berry- Body Code, Australian Centre for the Moving Image Web site: Drew berry . 2011-05-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110408173700/http://www.acmi.net.au/drew_berry.htm . 2011-04-08 . 2003
- http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/716 "MoMA Film Exhibitions: Premieres November 21, 2004 – January 31, 2005"
- http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/9464/NM_MediaKit_sml.pdf The Nature Machine Media Kit, Queensland Art Gallery
- http://www.wehi.edu.au/education/wehitv/about_wehi-tv About WEHI.TV
- Web site: Strange Attractors: Exhibiting Artists . 30 May 2011 . 8 April 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110408071249/http://www.strangeattractors.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/artists.html . dead .
- http://www.wehi.edu.au/education/wehitv/about_wehi-tv About WEHI.TV
- https://web.archive.org/web/20121104143311/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/414716/The-Day-the-Earth-Stood-Still/credits New York Times- 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' production credits
- July 2008 . Culture dish . Nature . en . 454 . 7202 . 279 . 10.1038/454279b . 4427663 . 1476-4687. free . 2008Natur.454..279. .
- In Science and Jazz, Father and Son Find Common Bonds https://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/06/in-science-and-jazz-father-and-son-find-common-bonds.html 9 June 2009
- http://www.wehi.edu.au/education/wehitv/about_wehi-tv About WEHI.TV
- Web site: Project - Culturetech . 2023-01-22 . www.culturetech.biz.
- Imagine Science Films: Fighting Infection By Clonal Selection Web site: Fighting Infection by Clonal Selection . 2011-05-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110722194447/http://imaginesciencefilms.com/2010/09/fighting-infection-by-clonal-selection/ . 2011-07-22 . 18 October 2010
- Web site: TEDxCaltech speakers . 30 May 2011 . 20 April 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110420064626/http://tedxcaltech.com/speakers/drew-berry . dead .
- http://tedxsydney.com/site/newSpeakers.cfm#DrewBerry TEDxSydney speakers
- http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/11179/1/drew-berrys-bio-animations Drew Berry's Bio-Animations
- http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=48754 "Biomedical Animator Drew Berry to Speak at RIT Dec. 8"
- Web site: "E. O. Wilson's Life on Earth: Team" . 9 March 2012 . 24 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120324173618/http://eowilsonfoundation.org/team . dead .
- Web site: Research . The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical . 2016-09-02 . Century of medical breakthroughs celebrated at Melbourne Museum . 2023-01-26 . WEHI . en.
- Web site: V&A · The Future Starts Here - Exhibition . 2023-03-07 . Victoria and Albert Museum . en.
- Web site: Respiration by wehi.tv (2021) - YouTube . 2023-01-19 . www.youtube.com.
- Web site: Respiration animation . 2023-01-21 . HHMI BioInteractive . 2 October 2020 . en.
- Web site: Virus one million times . 2023-01-19 . Science Gallery Melbourne . 16 August 2022 . en-GB.
- Web site: 2023-04-13 . Chemistry of Life . 2023-05-04 . C . en.