Today's artists are engaging in a form of creative inquiry with technology that's not too far removed from what goes on in the world's laboratories.

At The Creators Project: New York 2011, Zach Lieberman of YesYesNo, Jamie Zigelbaum and Marcelo Coelho of Zigelbaum + Coelho, and Rejane Cantoni and Leonardo Crescenti of Cantoni & Crescenti discussed how research plays into their artistic practice and the artist's role as researcher.