Talks:
I am available for speaking engagements on the topics of art, research, innovation, science, speculative design, amongst other ideas. I have spoken on TED, at universities, conferences, corporate retreats, and everything in between. Please get in touch to begin a conversation about my availability.
TED
Smelfies, and Other Experiments
in Synthetic Biology
MoMA R&D Salon
MoMA Research & Development provides information and critical tools to identify and explore new directions and opportunities for The Museum of Modern Art. I spoke on the Salon around the topic of “Good”.
Primer Conference
Keynote Speaker
Campus Party Brasilia
Keynote Speaker
Dent the Future
Speculative Science and Technological Dreaming: The Role of Design Fiction
Biodesign: From Inspiration to Integration
a half-day symposium that brings together international artists, designers, scientists and educators for talks, discussions and presentations on topics such as valuing non-human forms of life as collaborators, artistic and scientific modes of inquiry, and ethical considerations in bioart and biodesign practices.
TEDx Estee Lauder
Hosted at the MoMa
Additional talks include:
SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
Artist Lecture, Chicago, IL, 2023
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
Lecture on Design and Artificial Intelligence in conversation with Michelle Millar Fisher. Boston, MA 2023
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PHILADELPHIA
What’s in a Smell?: The Art and Science of Human Perception. Speaker at a symposium about the intersection of art and science. Philadelphia, PA, 2022
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Ecologies of Care: Investigating Quotidian Domesticity as a Terrain for Social Change. Speaker in the Arguments lecture series for the Masters of Science in Advanced Architectural Design Program, 2022
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Visiting artist talk, 2022
BARD COLLEGE
Artist talk in the curatorial studies program. Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, 2022
KÖLN INTERNATIONAL SCHOO OF DESIGN KISD
Artist Lecture, Cologne, Germany, 2021
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Artist Lecture, Philadelphia, PA 2020
SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
Visiting Artist Lecture. Chicago, IL 2020
ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS
Visiting Artist Lecture. Zurich, Switzerland 2020
TONGJI UNIVERSITY
DigitalFUTURES Symposium. Shanghai, China 2020
QUEENS COLLEGE
Visiting Artist Lecture. Queens, NY 2020
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, Tisch School of the Arts ITP
Visiting Artist Lecture. New York, NY 2020
PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Transdisciplinary Design MFA
Visiting Artist Lecture. New York, NY 2020
SCIENCE GALLERY
Artist Talk. Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2020
NY ARTS LIVE: ART & A.I.
Invited speaker for a symposium on artificial intelligence and art. New York, NY 2019
DATA x CREATIVITY: Utilizing Data as a Creative Tool
Invited speaker for a symposium on the use of data in creative practices. Brooklyn, NY 2019
SANOFI PHARMACEUTICALS
Invited speaker for Innovation Lecture Series. Cambridge, MA 2019
MOD GALLERY
Museum workshop around imagining different futures. Adeleide, Australia 2019
BROWARD UNIVERSITY
Invited Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics Lecture. Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2019
CLOG Journal: The Future of Art & Artificial Intelligence
Invited speaker for panel discussion. Brooklyn, NY 2019
University of North Carolina: Dense Emptiness
Syracuse, NY 2018
University of Syracuse: Beta Real Symposium
Syracuse, NY 2018
SANOFI: Creative Technologist Keynote Speaker
Cambridge, MA 2017
Harvard Digital Arts and Humanities presents: ArtTechPsyche
Cambridge, MA 2017
MIT Hacking Arts Conference
BioTech and Art, Co-Curator and Panel Lead 2016
IDEO: Speak the Small Truths
IDEO Food+Futures CoLab Storyteller 2016
Dartmouth College Alumni Lecture
Hanover, NH 2016
Tech Poetics
NuVu School, Boston, MA 2016
MIT Media Lab Embodied Potentials
Boston, MA 2016
Harvard Powerhouse Alliance Conference
Cambridge, MA 2015
Buildings as Cities Inaugural Conference
Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, Boston, MA, 2014
Harvard University Alumni Lecture
Graduate School of Design, Boston, MA 2014
For speaking inquiries, please email studio@ani-liu.com
Writing:
Post anthropogenic design, from sex to biopolitics
Domus Magazine
Intimate Synthetic Entanglements
Written for a publication for the Venice Biennale for Architecture, 2023
The Consumerist Pregnancy
Written for Biodesigned, an online magazine dedicated to exploring the emerging discipline at the intersection of art, design, and biology.
Tomorrow Anew
Collection of essays meditating on the pandemic edited by Gabriel Kozlowski
Quarantined: The role of Design Research in measuring urgency and reimagining agency
Written for the Design Research Forum Symposium at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Embodied Cognition
A+T Design Techniques Journal
"Alone Together" is the cover feature, and I am a contributing author (click through to read.)
See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded
By Madeline Schwartzman.
Includes the piece "Alone Together."
GSD Platform 7
Edited by Leire Asensio Villoria
Work featured in publication.
Interrupted Flesh: Didactic Provocations for Reprogramming Perception
Master of Architecture Thesis 2014
at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Brain-Controlled Interface for the Motile Control of Spermatozoa: A Biopolitical Feminist Work
Master of Science Thesis 2017
at MIT Media Lab
Press & Writing about my work:
This is a selection of longer profiles and interviews on my work. A more comprehensive list can be found in the News tab.
Art+Tech: Reprogramming Perception
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Interview on Mind in the Machine
QUEENS MUSEUM BIENNIAL
Interview on Human Perfumes
MASHABLE
Inventing Smells for Space: A chemistry, design, and R&D collaboration with IFF
MIT MEDIA LAB
ANI LIU, navigating the divergent connections between art and science
CLOT MAGAZINE
Mirror Mirror Exhibition Catalogue
Essays by Anonda Bell and Jacqueline Mabey
This Woman Just Figured Out How to Control Sperm with Her Brain
on VICE/ Broadly.
Written by Tiffany Hu
Artist used tech to control sperm with her mind
On Fox News.
Written by Evan Dashevsky
This Artist Used Tech to Control Sperm with Her Mind
Video Interview on PC Magazine
Interviewed by Evan Dashevsky
Woman of STEAM Grabs Back: Ani Liu Flips the Script
Article in ArtFCity
Written by Anthony Farley
This Designer Creates Flowers that Smell of Man
Article in WIRED Germany
Written by Anna Schughart
Meet the Labbers: Ani Liu
Profile of my work at MIT Media Lab.
Written by Margaret Evans
Perception Extension: The Art of Ani Liu
Profile in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
Written by Kaitlin Bell Barnett
'Smelfies', the odorous self-portraits that capture the human fragrance in a flower
Interview in El Dario.
Written by Jose Manuel Blanco
Scientists Made Music from the Human Microbiome, and It's Seriously Cool
On Gizmodo for a collaborative project.
Written by Kristin Brown
The Art of Climate Change
Interview in Medium on IDEO Stories
Written by Misa Misono
Exploring Artful Technology
Interviewed for Grounded Visionaries
at Harvard GSD