ArchaeaBot
A post singularity and post climate change life-form, this underwater robotic installation explored what ‘life’ might mean in a future after climate change. The project was based on new research about archaea (the oldest life forms on Earth) combined with the latest innovations in machine learning & artificial intelligence to create the ‘ultimate’ species for the end of the world as we know it.
About the Artists
Anna Dumitriu (1969) is a British artist who works with BioArt, sculpture, installation, and digital media to explore our relationship to infectious diseases, synthetic biology and robotics. She has an extensive international exhibition profile including ZKM, Ars Electronica, BOZAR, The Picasso Museum, The V & A Museum Philadelphia Science Center, The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei LABoral, Art Laboratory Berlin, and The Museum of the History of Science.
She was the 2018 President of the Science and the Arts section of the British Science Association. Her work is held in several major public collections, including the Science Museum London and Eden Project.
Alex May is a British contemporary digital artist whose practice forges links between art, science, and technology through a wide range of digital new media.
His artwork is exhibited internationally at museums and galleries such as Tate Modern (London), Ars Electronica (Austria), LABoral (Spain), Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Royal Academy of Art (London), ZHI Art Museum (China), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas (Venezuela), the Science Gallery in Dublin (Ireland) and Bengaluru (India), Princeton University, Texas A&M University, and the Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine.
Alex May has artwork in several collections including The Amelia (Tunbridge Wells), The Francis Crick Institute(London), The Computer Arts Society CAS50 collection, Eden Project (Cornwall), and the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum.
Connected Programmes
Climate Change and Water Resources by Pradeep Mujumdar - impact on climate change on already stressed-out water resources
Water: In Between Life and Death by Shashi Thutupalli - a public lecture on the questions of life and death