They are currently partnering with industry practitioners to imagine near-future scenarios of prototyping. Their current work focuses on their practice called “Critical Crafting” which is a manifestation of producing objects through the nuances of craft by creating prototypes for speculative manufacturing. Sustainable Approaches to Making – Panel DiscussionĪNANDA GABO is an interdisciplinary designer who has been exploring synthetic biology, manufacturing, food design, and community building for ten years. Online via Zoom ( link available upon registration) Online via Instagram Live (no registration required)ĭeep Fake Birdsong – Artist Talk with Kelly Heaton and Johann Diedrick Read Megan MacLaurin's essay about this exhibition here.įridays and Saturdays by private appointment ( schedule your visit here!) Challenging biomimicry’s often extractive and instrumentalist perspectives toward the natural world, Life as we know it examines more-than-human knowledge in relation to place, history, and a more sustainable future. Participating artists Ananda Gabo & Anastasiya Yatsuk, Keeley Haftner, Robert Hengeveld, Shawn Johnston, Emily Shanahan, and Sultana Zana erode the human/nature binary by studying, collaborating with, and emulating nature’s forms and processes. Life as we know it is a group exhibition exploring the emergence of biomimicry within new media arts. This interest in nonhuman knowledge has inspired the growing field of biomimicry, in which engineers, architects, and technologists emulate the structures and systems of nature’s design. Decentering human intelligence, leaders now look to prairies, coral reefs, and old growth forests as experts in efficiency and sustainability. Faced with the worsening effects of climate change, governments and industries of all kinds are seeking to learn from, and work in harmony with, other species to ensure the survival of our own. Human industrialism disrupts this symbiosis, imposing upon the timeworn cycles that have allowed nonhuman life to thrive. Most plant, animal, fungal, and bacterial species possess knowledge that allow them to live together-interdependently and renewably-on this earth.
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