The Interdisciplinary Science Program is so excited to announce that two recent May 2022 graduates, Leah Hughes and Elana Farrell, will be presenting their Symbiosensor Project in the International Biodesign Challenge Summit on June 20-22. The Summit is virtual and live streamed and registration is free and open to the public.
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Jennifer Willet is an artist, a Canada Research Chair in Art, Science, and Ecology, a Professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor and the Director of INCUBATOR Art Lab, founded in 2009. She is a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists in the Royal Society of Canada. Willet is a leader in the Canadian bioart community, and works internationally as an artist and curator in the field. In 2018, Willet opened a new state-of-the-art bioart laboratory, and in 2020 a storefront bioart studio and community engagement lab in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Ani Liu is an internationally exhibiting research-based artist working at the intersection of art and science. Her work examines the reciprocal relationships between science, technology and their influence on human subjectivity, culture, and identity. Reoccurring themes in the work include gender politics, biopolitics, labor, reproduction, simulation, and sexuality. Ani’s work has been exhibited internationally—including at the Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica, and Boston Museum of Fine Arts—and has been featured on National Geographic, VICE, TED, Core77, WIRED and more. Ani is passionate about integrating multidisciplinary approaches to art making, and is currently an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Ani has previously taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Princeton University, Columbia University, and is on critique panels at Harvard, Dartmouth, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, NYU, UNC Charlotte, Pratt, and Parsons.
Sunanda Sharma is a creative biologist and interdisciplinary scientist interested in questions of astrobiology, evolution, ecology, biodiversity, origin of life, and artificial life. As a designer, she practices biodesign motivated by non-human and non-Earth centric perspectives. She completed her PhD and MS at the MIT Media Lab as part of The Mediated Matter Group, led by Prof. Neri Oxman. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Astrobiology and Ocean Worlds Group working on Mars 2020, as part of the SHERLOC instrument team.