UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                            presents

     
	     "BioArt Revolution: Exploring Cutting Edge Science through Biomedia, 
		          Interactive Art, and Robotics "
	

                         Anna Dumitriu
                   (University of Hertfordshire)

                        6 March 2024 
                        13:00 -14:00 
                          Room C154

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend
				  
				                               

Abstract:

Anna Dumitriu will discuss how art can explore and communicate our relationship to science and biomedicine at a time when we face rapid and revolutionary changes. She will focus on 

her recent solo exhibition BioArt Revolution in Timisoara, Romania, as part of the European Capital of Culture, and her collaborations with fellow University of Hertfordshire artist-in-residence Alex May. That breath-taking and beautiful exhibition weaves together alchemy, and the history of science and medicine, with cutting-edge research in biotechnology, and robotics, including CRISPR DNA modification, biomedical AI systems, and neural networks.  The exhibition included sculptures and installations made using bacteria, DNA, altered vintage objects, 3D printing, textiles and digital technologies. 


Biography:

Anna Dumitriu is an award-winning British artist who works with BioArt, sculpture, installation, and digital media to explore our relationship to infectious diseases, synthetic biology, and robotics. Past exhibitions include ZKM, Ars Electronica, BOZAR, The Picasso Museum, Kunstlerhaus Vienna, MIT Museum, Liljevalchs, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, MOCA Taipei, HeK Basel, LABoral, Art Laboratory Berlin, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the 6th Guangzhou Triennial, and The History of Science Museum Oxford. Her work is held in several major collections, including ZKM (recent acquisition), the Science Museum London and Eden Project. 

 

Dumitriu’s artworks are created hands-on by the artist both in the lab and in the studio and can be seen as sublime relics of her transdisciplinary, laboratory-based practice. She works with an extensive network of scientific collaborators across the world. Her obsessions with the history infectious diseases, medical ethics, antibiotics, and genomics, speak urgently to the concerns of wide audiences and create an emotionally affecting experience that addresses issues of both global and local relevance, important to everyone. 

 

Her work is featured in many books including Bio Art: Altered Realities published by Thames and Hudson in 2016 and many other significant publications across contemporary art and science including Frieze, Artforum International Magazine, Leonardo Journal, The Art Newspaper, Art Quarterly, Nature, and The Lancet 

 

She holds artist-in-residence roles with the Modernising Medical Microbiology Project at the University of Oxford, and the National Collection of Type Cultures at the UK Health Security Agency, as well as visiting research fellowships with Waag and the School of Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire as part of the BioComputation Research Group.  

 

Current collaborations also include the Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells at Helmholtz Zentrum in München, the EU Better Factory Project, the EU CAPABLE Project, The Wellcome Sanger Institute, and the University of Leeds, and Cranfield University funded by a 2023 Massee Award from the British Mycological Society. 

 

https://annadumitriu.co.uk/ 



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