Photograph: © Royal Academy of Arts, London, David Parry

 

We are delighted that The Substitute is included at Eco-Visionaries at the Royal Academy, open from 23 November 2019 - 23 February 2020.

We are delighted that Resurrecting the Sublime received received the Lumen Prize's Rapoport Award for Women in Art & Tech 2019. 

We are delighted that Resurrecting the Sublime received an Honorary Mention in the Artificial Intelligence & Life Art category at the Prix Ars Electronica 2019. This year, the Prix received a total of 3,256 entries from 82 countries. We will show documentation of the project in the CyberArts exhibition at OK OÖ Kulturquartier, as part of the Ars Electronica Festival. 

Photograph: © Vitra Design Museum, Bettina Matthiesen. 

Curated by Viviane Stappmans, Better Nature opened on the 19th July at Vitra Design Museum Gallery at the Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein. This first solo show includes six projects made between 2009 and 2019. 

'British artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (born in London in 1982) investigates the relationship between nature and the man-made, exploring how this interconnection changes through advances in design and technology. The resulting artworks tell evocative stories that are at once provocative and ironic. From 20 July to 24 November 2019, the Vitra Design Museum Gallery presents a solo exhibition tracing Ginsberg’s journey as an artist and critical designer. Trained in architecture and interaction design, she has been especially interested in the emerging technoscience of "synthetic biology" – the design of living matter. Within this context, Ginsberg has been intrigued by the premise that underpins all approaches to design: the desire to make things »better«. But what exactly does better mean? Better for whom? And who decides? These questions, which are crucial in times of radical technological and scientific advances, are the basis of "Better Nature".'

Photograph: © Vitra Design Museum, Bettina Matthiesen.

Photograph: © Vitra Design Museum, Bettina Matthiesen.

Photograph: © Vitra Design Museum, Bettina Matthiesen.

The Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial opened simulataneously at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC and at Cube design museum, Kerkrade, Netherlands, on the 10th May. The organising museums commissioned a new work, The Substitute, and a new edition of Resurrecting the Sublime where visitors can smell the extinct Orbexilum stipulatum, last seen (and smelled) in 1881, in Kentucky, US.