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"She blends art with science, technology and politics to explore what it means to be human in an increasingly virtual world. “I bring very disparate ideas together to reveal aspects about how technology frames our reality,” says Liu"
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"She blends art with science, technology and politics to explore what it means to be human in an increasingly virtual world. “I bring very disparate ideas together to reveal aspects about how technology frames our reality,” says Liu"
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Opening Next Friday October 6th 7PM at Mills Gallery
Details here! http://www.bcaonline.org/calendar/calendar-of-events/details/931-laboratory-of-longings-the-experiments-of-ani-liu.html
Edit: Thanks To all who came! Some photos from the opening below!
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The Global Community Bio Summit that I participated in got a write up in Makery here: http://www.makery.info/2017/10/10/le-mit-media-lab-prend-le-leadership-sur-la-communaute-diybio/
I moderated a BioArt and Design panel with Alison Irvine from Genspace and Lena Asai. Makery gave me a little shut out here. (Thanks Makery!)
I spent a month in factories in China on a research grant called Hacking Manufacturing from MIT Media Lab. You can read about my experience here: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/hacking-manufacturing-research-on-the-factory-floor/
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"In a world full of new science and technology, it's increasingly difficult for society to contemplate what it's doing to itself before it's already doing it. This trend will only accelerate, though, so today's artists should consider it their duty to utilize STEM in their work."
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I will be giving a talk about my work as a keynote speaker in Brasilia, Brazil June 16th! Come visit and say hi if you are in the area!
Update: Images from the Talk!
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I had the pleasure of sharing my work at PC Magazine today! You can watch the entireinterview here.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/05/23/mind-controlled-spermatozoa/
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"The Schnitzer Prize was established in 1996 through an endowment from Harold and Arlene Schnitzer of Portland, Oregon. Harold Schnitzer, a real estate investor, graduated from MIT in 1944 with a degree in metallurgy. The prizes—a first prize of $5000, second prize of $3000, third prize of $2000 and honorable mentions of $1000—are awarded to undergraduate and graduate students for excellence in a body of artistic work. This year’s recipients represent the diverse academic backgrounds of contemporary artists, as well as the distinctive creative culture of MIT, where science, technology and art inform each other.
An exhibition of selected works by the Schnitzer Prize winners—Ani Liu, Angel Chen, Jessica Rinland, Anne Graziano and Edwina Portocarrero—will be on view in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery, opening June 2, 2017.
Ani Liu
Ani Liu, the first-prize winner, is an interdisciplinary artist and graduate student in the Media Lab in the Design Fiction group. In her research-based art, she explores the cultural implications of emerging technologies. Her work includes architectural installations, wearable prosthetics, augmented reality and synthetic biology.
Her evocative biological design objects include: “Kisses from the Future,” a petri dish of micro-organisms cultured from a kiss; “Forget Me Not,” a plant that is engineered to emit a person’s odor, reversing the perfumer’s art of applying floral fragrances to people; and “The Botany of Desire: Experiments in Interspecies Interfaces,” which tests the limits of interspecies empathy. Ani’s expansive portfolio also includes digital and analog works that investigate everything from networked reality to falling in love.
For her thesis work, she controls the movement of sperm with her mind. She describes the work as a “biopolitical feminist art piece” and says it allows her both “to push the limits of what I was able to accomplish technologically, in terms of the engineering” and “to question who gets control over bodily rights, and what kind of metaphorical acts can empower and make us question the status quo.”
There is also an extensive interview included! https://www.wired.de/collection/design/ani-liu-mit-interview-smelfie-biotechnologie-parfum-duft-geruch-blume
Please to announce that I will be speaking at ArtTechPsyche at Harvard this April 20th.
ArtTechPsyche celebrates human expression at the intersection of technology and the arts. Harvard Digital Arts and Humanities (DARTH), in collaboration with the Harvard Library and the Digital Futures Consortium, invites you to participate in a day of immersive digital experiences, art exhibitions, technology demos, and visionary speakers on Thursday, April 20, 2017 at Arts @ 29 Garden.
Explore the creative process and its impact on emerging technologies. Discover the ways in which technology shapes us, and conversely, how the artist continually challenges and informs technological development. Interact with cutting edge art installations and software demos to experience the world in new ways. Meet like-minded faculty, staff, students, researchers, and colleagues of any skill level while exploring new projects and collaborations on and around campus.