Biodesign Challenge: Group Projects from 2019

For the Biodesign Challenge students from top universities around the world spend the semester envisioning how cells, microbes, and other living things can remake the products and processes of our made world. At Rutgers this past semester students authored projects that focused on water, food, materials, energy, medicine, and others areas where biological design could … Continue reading Biodesign Challenge: Group Projects from 2019

Camden Colorfield Project

HI Everybody, For Earth Day this year the Art and Urban Sustainability Group will be doing a day-long seed ball making workshop in front of the student center on 4/24 from 10:00AM to 4:00PM. The seed balls, which the group is naming “Earth Balls” will be colored and contain a corresponding hue of indigenous wildflowers … Continue reading Camden Colorfield Project

New Media Art: Summer 2018

Art 224 Summer: New Media Art Professor E. Demaray E-mail: demaray@camden.rutgers.edu Office: FAB 254   This class is dedicated to advancing the conceptual and artistic use of digital media in all areas of studio art. Focused on the nexus of theory and studio-based work in the expanding fields of digital technology, virtual reality, gaming and … Continue reading New Media Art: Summer 2018

Plastomach: Rutgers Biodesign Challenge winner from Rutgers at NY MOMA!

The Biodesign class at Rutgers produced multiple realized and speculative group projects this year. The projects that made it to the Biodesign Challenge website are below and include Mite Be Caviar (beetle-rich flour as a living protein source), ACNELLUS Pillows (a living bacteria that eats oil off your face at night), The Crab Shack Project (biomineralized houses … Continue reading Plastomach: Rutgers Biodesign Challenge winner from Rutgers at NY MOMA!

Summer Site-Specific Art, the art class for science people

Instructor: Prof. Elizabeth Demaray Summer Session 2A 5/29-6/22: M/T/W/Th 10:50AM-1:30PM FA 105 This fun, hands-on, class makes art outside of an art studio by using Alexander von Humboldt, the artist and famous natural scientist, as a model. In this class we will learn botanical rendering, drawing from a microscopic scale, site-collection, installation and site-specific assemblage. … Continue reading Summer Site-Specific Art, the art class for science people

Biodesign Challenge! Special Topics: Sculpture 50:080:490

What is the Biodesign Challenge? The Biodesign Challenge offers art and design students the opportunity to envision future applications of biotechnology in a competition that highlights student work. Our organizers connect classrooms with a team of biologists and experts at GenSpace  to guide the students as they develop their ideas. At the end of the … Continue reading Biodesign Challenge! Special Topics: Sculpture 50:080:490