I am an Interaction Designer, artist and life science researcher.

My work explores digital networked technologies and systems through their convergence with non-human intelligence (plants, unicellular organisms, insects, bacteria) in regard to the Infocene problematics, seen as our current cultural era where Information is the force having the biggest impact on human societies and environments.

I explore the relationship between the culture around Artificial and Biological intelligence by making bio-computers manipulating organisms through rules implemented in soft, hard and wetware, looking both at how biology influences computer science conceptually and at the impact of the implementation of computation and computational thinking on ecosystems.
I have been the recipient of the Bio Arts and Design Award and a Falling Walls winner, while my work has been nominated for several international prizes, such as the STARTS prize of the European Commission and the Lumens Prize

I hold master's degrees in Interaction Design from the London College of Communication and in synthetic and systems biology from the CRI in Paris.

I am currently the Head of Cyber Synthetic Biology research at OXMAN in New York





Award and Distinctions






Selected Shows



Au Delà des Pixels @ 36 degrés, Garage Amelot
CMD2.0 as part of Evolutionaries@ MU Artspace
S_HE DEVIL 12 @ MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Evolutionaries @ MU Artspace, Eindhoven, Netherlands
C t r l @ Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Polarities @ Mu, Eindhoven, Netherlands
District 15 @ The Nate, Hong Kong, HK
Sovereign Nature @ Kraftwerk, Berlin, Germany
Biodesign Here Now @ London Design Festival, London, UK
Friday Late @ Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Discoveries @ Fuimano Clase, London, UK
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, September 2018




Selected Press





Residencies


Mindspaces , European Commission STARTS/Lighthouse
Hybrid form lab, 2019














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