LAURENT MIGNONNEAU/CHRISTA SOMMERER Portrait on the Fly (2015) Interactive Computer Installation In collaboration with \Art, Cornell Tech, New York City Portrait on the Fly (Interactive Version)…
MENGNI ZHANG In Touch A Tactile Language Encoder Nature has proven to us through evolution that by organizing weak and uninformed individuals into a swarm, the…
JENIFER WIGHTMAN Mud Painting: Bacterial Performativity Bioart Installation These creative experiments in bioart exhibit “mud paintings” that foreground microbes existing within mud to photosynthesize pigments. As…
GRACE TROXELL Microbiome Rift Microbiome Rift, an outdoor sculpture situated on the Arts Quad, dissolves boundaries between internal and external, contained and container, animate and inanimate.…
NATASHA RAHEJA A Gregarious Species What do bugs and borders have to do with each other? In 2019, thousands of gregarious desert locust swarms flew across…
PIYAWAT LOUILARPPRASERT Sonic Stigmergy and Swarm Granulation The concept of stigmergy is referring to ideas and activities of self-organization in wide range of spheres such as…
DENISE GREEN Fashion in Transit From the aesthetics of transportation mechanisms themselves to the clothing and accessories worn by bodies in motion, fashion affects and is…
MARIANTHI PAPALEXANDRI ALEXANDRI Generators Generators centers on a set of hand-crank generators that convert mechanical motion into electrical energy to directly drive and synchronize a swarm…
MATT DALLOS Libe Slope Meadow Walk the path through the meadow. Grasses stand head high on both sides. Through chaotic plant stems you see fragments of…
JENNIFER BIRKELAND/JAMIE VANUCCHI Swarming the Susquehanna This installation represents the uneasy relationship between nature and community through a field condition of floodplain homes on display on…
J. ROBERT LENNON Stigmergium The idea of the swarm is highly applicable to the music we make, and this project will lean heavily into the concept,…
WENDY S. WALTERS Good People of Fresh Creek Basin: Notes on Climate Change (2020) Creative Writing Performance This essay examines the early signs of forced migration…
SAM VAN AKEN The Tree of 40 Fruit (2008-2020) Bioart Installation This creative blend of art and science provides an extravagant habitat for the natural swarm…
KYUNGWON MOON/JOONHO JEON The Ways of Folding Space and Flying (2015) Video Installation The Ways of Folding Space & Flying is a multi-channel film installation created…
SARA JIMENEZ At what point does the world unfold? (2020) Printed Fabric Installation The Biennial is commissioning a new outdoor installation from the exciting emergent New…
MARIA HUPFIELD One Person Exhibition (2020) Felt, Sculpture, Video, Performance Maria Hupfield will retool the gallery space as a laboratory, as a performance venue, and as…
KEN FEINGOLD The Animal, Vegetable, Mineralness of Everything (2004) Robotics and AI An international pioneer of robotic and artificial intelligence art, Ken Feingold exhibits this compelling…
XU BING Precarious Natural Swarms (2020) Mixed Media As a proposal for a permanent installation for the Cornell Botanic Gardens, the celebrated Chinese artist and Cornell…
LAURIE ANDERSON/HSIN-CHIEN HUANG To the Moon (2018), Virtual Reality Installation The pioneering American performance artist, Laurie Anderson, again collaborates with the creative Taiwanese technology artist, Hsin-Chien…