Personal agency is as much a matter of access to information and resources as it is about decision-making. For this reason, an important component to the Biological Agency exhibit is the Knowledge Virus Research Station, an area in the gallery that makes artist-made resources available for public use and dissemination: zines, comics, kits, view-master slides, and an internet kiosk linked to sites focusing on various biological and educational initiatives as well as information on biological topics from a variety of creative perspectives.

The resources included here represent a curated selection of web-based projects produced by artists, scientists, designers, students, and everyday people with an interest in biological topics. Since no one classification can comprehensively order or describe these varied and interleaving projects appropriately, we simply list them here roughly by the physical scale on which they exist as biological phenomena, tiny to vast:

DNA (Wiley Interscience)

Viruses (John Kyrk)

Green Porno (Isabella Rosselini)

Glossolalia: a Biotech Glossary of Sex and Gender (subRosa)

Dream Anatomy (Nat'l Library of Medicine)

Papier Mache Anatomies (Nat'l Museum of American History)

Visible Proofs (Nat'l Library of Medicine)

Bred in the Bone (Alison Ruttan)

See for Yourself (Purves Lab)

Cell Track (subRosa)

Environmental Health Clinic (Natalie Jeremijenko + collaborators)

The Museum of Jurassic Technology

PINGA Game (Futurefarmers)

Contestational Biology (Critical Art Ensemble)

The Flocking Party (Chris Landau)

Chicago Technology Park Tour (Temporary Travel Office)

TOPP Predators Tagging Map

The Green Map Project

Land Use Database (Center for Land Use Interpretation)

Visual Complexity

Evolution (John Kyrk)

Powers of Ten (Charles and Ray Eames)

Print Resources:
On view in the gallery you'll find Vladmaster's handmade view-master reels about cockroach life, Ryan Griffis' Invasive Irrigation kits, comics and zines by Andrew Oleksiuk, Laura Szumowski, Liz Mason, Leda Zawacki, Alhena Katsof, Michaela Calhoun and many more, a digital station connecting visitors to the links above, as well as publications produced through the Small Science Collective, which publishes creative brochures created by biology and entomology students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.