MFA grad student Juniper Harrower is the lead author on a new article which discusses her work with the Algae Society BioArt Design Lab. The article was published in the Leonardo journal for Art and Science through MIT and it is featured as their cover article!
https://leonardo.info/journal-issue/leonardo/55/4
Title: The Algae Society BioArt Design Lab: Exploring Multispecies Entanglements and Making Kin with Algae
authored by Juniper Harrower, Gene Felice, Jennifer Parker, David Harris, Fiona Hillary, Tiare Ribeaux
Abstract
The Algae Society BioArt Design Lab is a global collective of interdisciplinary researchers working together with algae as nonhuman international research partners. As a collaborative group of artists, scientists, and scholars, they experiment and coproduce with algae, seeking to highlight complex human interdependence and kinship with algal beings. Here the founding members introduce the Algae Society and share a collective collage of their evolving artistic works while reflecting on each researcher’s process, materiality, and aesthetic considerations. With these works, they endeavor to shift our perspectives from human-centric exceptionalism to greater appreciation and cultural reframing of our responsibility as participants in multispecies worlding.
