Bioengineered Living Entities in Art: Aliveness, Duration, and Movement in Bricolage

ZIGGY O’REILLY is a PhD student in the Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction line at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa. She completed her Master of Biological Arts at SymbioticA within the School of Human Sciences at the University of Western Australia.

CHRISTINA CHAU is a lecturer at Curtin University in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry. She is the managing editor for Deleuze and Guattari Studies and author of the book Movement, Time, Technology, and Art (Springer, 2017); she has also published in the areas of kinetic sculpture, robotics, and online visual culture.

NATHAN THOMPSON is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the possibilities of human/machine interaction and the hidden corners that arise from this relationship. Mostly he implements machines/robots that play along the blurred edge of the interactive while showing independent thought, only slightly tethered to the audience’s actions.

GUY BEN-ARY is a Perth-based artist and researcher. He currently works at SymbioticA, the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at the University of Western Australia. Recognized internationally as a major artist and innovator working across science and media arts, Ben-Ary specializes in biotechnological artwork that aims to enrich our understanding of what it means to be alive.