For the Biodesign Challenge (BDC), 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 in Biodesign 50:080:129 proposed projects that focused on water, food systems, alternative uses of waste stream … Continue reading Rutgers Winning Biodesign Challenge Project is “FUNGI GUY: A Superhero for Our Times”…
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ZoomOnArt 2025: Ephemeral Media
Ephemeral Media: what do you do when your art is not permanent? FA 103 from 11:30 AM to 12:20 PM and on Zoom Contact Prof. Demaray at demaray@rutgers.edu for more info This Spring Semester at Rutgers Camden, we have embraced the topic of Ephemeral Media: what do you do when your art is not permanent? … Continue reading ZoomOnArt 2025: Ephemeral Media…
What do You Do When Your Media is ALIVE!!! ZoomOnArt: Spring 2024
This Spring Semester at Rutgers Camden ZoomOnArt embraced the topic of What do You Do When Your Art is ALIVE!!! Featuring the Alice Smit, Chatherine Chalmers, Jon Compton and Elizabeth Demaray. This last presentation was presented at the Chrysler Herbarium curated by Dr. Lena Struve. When Your Art is ALIVE presenters shared stories of tracking … Continue reading What do You Do When Your Media is ALIVE!!! ZoomOnArt: Spring 2024…
Plastomach Featured on This Earth Now: Can it Save the Planet?
It was a total pleasure to be featured on the show This Earth Now in their Can it Save the Planet episode. For the interview I had the staff and commentators up to my studio on the 69th floor of World Trade Building #3. Below is a link to the interview. Cheers and enjoy!
Soil:P Rutgers Biodesign Team Winners 2023
I am thrilled to report that the winning Biodesign Challenge Team coming out of Rutgers is Soil:P the living prescription for all your urban soil needs Soil:P seeks to identify and support the living communities of microbes in urban soils. Our project was inspired by hands-on work identifying soil microbes in our lab, the State … Continue reading Soil:P Rutgers Biodesign Team Winners 2023…
Cosmologies of Care: International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Paris 2023
This spring I had the pleasure of presenting some of my work with living systems at International Symposium of Electronic Arts. This panel included Carlos Castellanos, Mariana Perez Bobadilla/Maro Pebo and myself and was titled Cosmologies of Care: Epistemological and Ontological repositioning of Symbiotic Relationships in Art and Living Systems. Our talk offered examples of … Continue reading Cosmologies of Care: International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Paris 2023…