BIO
Anna Dumitriu’s work blurs the boundaries between art and science. Her installations, interventions and performances use a range of digital, biological and traditional media including live bacteria, interactive media and textiles. Her work has a strong international exhibition profile and is held in several major public collections, including the Science Museum in London. She was a member of the e-MobiLArt project (the EU funded European Mobile Lab for Interactive Art) and Artist in Residence at The Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at Sussex University. She is known for her work as director of “The Institute of Unnecessary Research”, a group of artists and scientists whose work crosses disciplinary boundaries and critiques contemporary research practice. She is currently working on a Wellcome Trust funded art project entitled “Communicating Bacteria”, collaborating with the Adaptive Systems Research Group at The University of Hertfordshire (focussing on social robotics) and has recently commenced her role as Leverhulme Trust artist in residence on the Modernising Medical Microbiology project at The University of Oxford.
www.unnecessaryresearch.org and www.normalflora.co.uk
www.unnecessaryresearch.org and www.normalflora.co.uk
Forms of Life, Digiville Event at Lighthouse, Brighton
Dates:
Tue Aug 28, 2007 00:00 - Mon Aug 20, 2007
Forms of Life
Digiville
1st September 2007
Lighthouse,
1, Zone B
28 Kensington Street
Brighton, UK
BN1 4AJ
Artworks on show 10am -5pm
Evening Talks from 7pm
Artist Anna Dumitriu has curated an exciting one-day programme of artworks, talks and hands on activities for Lighthouse in Brighton around the title ‘Forms of Life’, which will take place on Saturday1st September.
The artworks, which Dumitriu has acquired from as far a field as Australia and America, include pieces featuring bacteria and artificial life forms. The evening talks will develop the themes further and include a microbiologist, a musician inspired by genetic codes and a philosopher specialising in techno-ethics and artificial intelligence.
Anna Dumitriu, director of The Institute of Unnecessary Research’s work looks at the very nature of life, from her research into our relationship with microbiology in her Normal Flora project, to her role as the ‘self-organising’ artist in residence in the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at Sussex University. This is a very personal selection of artworks and speakers. Dumitriu said; “What I want to look at is the relationship between microbiology and artificial life? Is life something that can be abstracted from organic processes? And how can these abstract concepts be made physical and tangible for us?”
Artists included in the event include Paul Brown, Milton Mermikides, Peta Clancy, eteam, boredomresearch, Jon McCormack and Anna Dumitriu. Speakers are Dr Simon Park, Milton Mermikides and Blay Whitby.
Websites:
The Normal Flora Project
www.normalflora.co.uk
The Self-organising artist
http://web.mac.com/annadumitriu/iWeb/SOA
The Institute of Unnecessary Research
www.unnecessaryresearch.org
Lighthouse
www.lighthouse.org.uk
contact
annadumitriu@hotmail.com
Digiville
1st September 2007
Lighthouse,
1, Zone B
28 Kensington Street
Brighton, UK
BN1 4AJ
Artworks on show 10am -5pm
Evening Talks from 7pm
Artist Anna Dumitriu has curated an exciting one-day programme of artworks, talks and hands on activities for Lighthouse in Brighton around the title ‘Forms of Life’, which will take place on Saturday1st September.
The artworks, which Dumitriu has acquired from as far a field as Australia and America, include pieces featuring bacteria and artificial life forms. The evening talks will develop the themes further and include a microbiologist, a musician inspired by genetic codes and a philosopher specialising in techno-ethics and artificial intelligence.
Anna Dumitriu, director of The Institute of Unnecessary Research’s work looks at the very nature of life, from her research into our relationship with microbiology in her Normal Flora project, to her role as the ‘self-organising’ artist in residence in the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at Sussex University. This is a very personal selection of artworks and speakers. Dumitriu said; “What I want to look at is the relationship between microbiology and artificial life? Is life something that can be abstracted from organic processes? And how can these abstract concepts be made physical and tangible for us?”
Artists included in the event include Paul Brown, Milton Mermikides, Peta Clancy, eteam, boredomresearch, Jon McCormack and Anna Dumitriu. Speakers are Dr Simon Park, Milton Mermikides and Blay Whitby.
Websites:
The Normal Flora Project
www.normalflora.co.uk
The Self-organising artist
http://web.mac.com/annadumitriu/iWeb/SOA
The Institute of Unnecessary Research
www.unnecessaryresearch.org
Lighthouse
www.lighthouse.org.uk
contact
annadumitriu@hotmail.com
Article Submission
Please circulate the following information about my new residency.
Anna Dumitriu
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The Self Organising Artist:
An Artist Residency at The Centre for Computational Neuroscience and
Robotics
Anna Dumitriu has been invited to be artist in residence at The Centre for
Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at Sussex University, UK. Anna's
work (featured on Rhizome) combines scientific research with installation,
live art and digital media and is engaged specifically with research into
Normal Flora Microbiology.
The CCNR is internationally renowned for its interdisciplinary Artificial
Life research, which combines hands-on neuroscience, computing, evolutionary
robotics and electronics and biologically inspired engineering with
theoretical considerations of the philosophical implications of this
speculative
Anna Dumitriu
***
The Self Organising Artist:
An Artist Residency at The Centre for Computational Neuroscience and
Robotics
Anna Dumitriu has been invited to be artist in residence at The Centre for
Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at Sussex University, UK. Anna's
work (featured on Rhizome) combines scientific research with installation,
live art and digital media and is engaged specifically with research into
Normal Flora Microbiology.
The CCNR is internationally renowned for its interdisciplinary Artificial
Life research, which combines hands-on neuroscience, computing, evolutionary
robotics and electronics and biologically inspired engineering with
theoretical considerations of the philosophical implications of this
speculative
