Seven on Seven

Seven on Seven organised by Rhizome, New York pairs seven leading artists with seven visionary technologists, and challenges them to make something new — an artwork, a prototype, whatever they imagine. Rhizome and Kunsthall Stavanger in Norway presented 7×7 Stavanger, a newlyimagined, socially-distanced edition in times of COVID-19. For this project I collaborated with Tal Danino, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. Danino’s research focuses on the design and characterization of dynamic gene circuits in microbes with applications such as cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. Our collaboration led to several ideas for sculptural objects connecting his research with my practice, resulting in 3D models of goblets containing natural as well as engineered bacteria, such as a probiotic variant and engineerd P. mirabilis. During the online presentation a short animation of the probiotic variant was shown https://vimeo.com/482991909