International bio-artist, Anna Dumitriu reveals a whole new world!
Latest TV meets international bio-artist, Anna Dumitriu, based in Brighton. Anna has created a wide range of public art projects using biological materials, which include bacteria, viruses and fungi. She talks to Latest TV’s Angi Mariani, about the stories behind the art and the scientific messages including the importance of tackling antibiotic resistance.
Anna Dumitriu is an internationally renowned British contemporary artist who works with BioArt, sculpture, installation, and digital media to explore our relationship to nature and technology with a focus on infectious diseases, synthetic biology, AI and robotics. She is a leading pioneer of art-science collaborative practice on the international stage and considered to be the first artist to ever create work using CRISPR DNA modification.
Past exhibitions include ZKM, Ars Electronica, BOZAR, The Picasso Museum, HeK Basel, Science Gallery Detroit, MOCA Taipei, LABoral, Art Laboratory Berlin, and Eden Project. She exhibited and spoke in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 2019 for the Medecins Sans Frontieres Conference in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and gave a talk at the National Institute of Art and Design there.
She holds visiting research fellowship/artist-in-residence roles at the University of Hertfordshire and the National Institute of Health Research Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, and the University of Cranfield (Magan Centre for Applied Mycology) as well as artist-in-residence roles with the Modernising Medical Microbiology Project at the University of Oxford and the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
She was the 2018 President of the Science and the Arts Section of the British Science Association. Her work has featured in many significant publications including Frieze, Artforum International Magazine, Leonardo Journal, The Art Newspaper, Nature and The Lancet.
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