Making_Life was a project about art and synthetic biology organized by the Finnish Bioartsociety in Helsinki. It consisted of a series of three work periods which allowed a multidisciplinary group of practitioners to critically, and in an informed manner, engage with the socio-cultural, political and ethical complexities of synthetic biology. In May 2015 Erich Berger and Andy Gracie interviewed Markus Schmidt and Oron Catts to hear what a scientist and an artist have to say about synthetic biology.