Projects

The Ex-Utero collective is a trans-disciplinary collaboration between artists and scientists exploring the future of human reproduction. Ectogenesis, the extracorporeal development of an embryo in an artificial womb, was once seen as farfetched, but the mechanization of the birthing process has moved into mainstream science. What will ectogenesis mean to society? With the rise of ectogenesis, will the placenta become a vestigial organ? Using a myriad of artistic formats, this project will reflect and prompt discussion around these grandiose questions through a multi-media, immersive bioart installation.

Presented at: FEMeeting Taos, 2023, In-Progress Colloquium Art Laboratory, Berlin, 2023, ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Paris, 2023, FEMeeting Evora, Portugal, LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous)Talks, 2022

Sentinel Lands: The Geospace of Mine Fires is a collaborative project including architectural historians, artists, mineral scientists, meteorologists and sociologists to explore the environmental impacts of extraction economies on climate change. Sentinel Lands investigates the repercussions of a mine fire that has burned in the community of Centralia, Pennsylvania since an accident ignited the Buck Mountain anthracite vein in 1962.  Sixty years later, we visited Centralia to speculate about how human-made disasters redefine relationships between ecosystems and our communities.

 

Presented at: Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground, Carnegie Museum of Art, Aug. 2023 – Jan. 2024, Climate Solutions Symposium, May 2023, Penn State’s Institutes of Energy and the Environment, Penn State Stuckeman School’s Rouse Gallery Lecture and Exhibition Series, March 2022

Microbial Migrations is a collaboration between artists and microbiologists investigating the movement and relationship between interspecies microbial communities. This project uses documentary video, gps tracking and high-throughput microbiological analysis to better understand shared microbial communities.

Evolving Memory documents the act of remembering. A mixed media installation of video projection and ceramic sculpture explores the shifting narratives of reconstructing memories.

Here, There and Everywhere is a multimedia exhibition about the shipping industry, the movement of commercial goods and the architectural landscape of the Fremantle Port, Fremantle, Western Australia. It included cardboard construction and a documentary film about ship spotters.