Carol LaFayette is an artist who collaborates with individuals from the sciences to invent unique ways to experience interconnections of flora, fauna, and phenomena in a rural landscape. Her work is in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, and The J. Paul Getty Museum. She has exhibited artwork worldwide, including LAB '11, Sweden; SIGGRAPH '02, '08 and '09; Zebra Poetry on Film, Berlin; Filmstock, UK; and Vizivarosi Gallery, Budapest. Reviews of her artwork have been published in BBC Technology News, Chronicle of Higher Education and Wired. She is Principal Investigator of an NSF supported project to form SEAD, a national network for transdisciplinary engagement amongst the sciences, engineering, arts, and design. She is an Associate Professor in the cross-disciplinary Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University, and Director of the Institute for Applied Creativity, a forum for radical harmony amongst domains and disciplines intent on creating a radiant future.