About the Author
| Blurbarian Since | June 2011 |
| Name | Anna Dumitriu |
| My Web Site | www.normalflora.co.uk |
| Location | Brighton, UK |
| Gender | Female |
| My Occupation | Artist |
| My Bio | Anna Dumitriu’s work blurs the boundaries between art and science. Her installations, interventions and performances use a range of digital, biological and traditional media including live bacteria, interactive media and textiles. Her work has a strong international exhibition profile and is held in several major public collections, including the Science Museum in London. She is known for her work as director of “The Institute of Unnecessary Research”, a group of artists and scientists whose work crosses disciplinary boundaries and critiques contemporary research practice. She is currently working on a Wellcome Trust funded art project entitled “Communicating Bacteria”, collaborating as a Vistiting Research Fellow: Artist in Residence with the Adaptive Systems Research Group at The University of Hertfordshire (focussing on social robotics) and Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence on the on the UK Clinical Research Consortium Project “Modernising Medical Microbiology”. |
Books by this author
Things I Don't Mind The World Knowing
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| "The Modernising Medical Microbiology" Project and my artist's residency |
| Everyone needs to know about these authors and artists... |
| Artists are innovators, if a new piece of technology or a new medium, becomes available; artists want to try it, to experiment with it- from microbiology to robotics; from tissue culture to neuroscience. Some artists take on the role of a scientist in almost a performative way and some scientists become artists themselves. Philosophy and ethics is always at its core and the work unpacks the instrumentalization of science for commercial and political ends. |
| This book is addictive. Read it. (At your own risk.) |
| The purpose of the book and my artwork is to convey some of my fascination about the microbiological world and hopefully enable the audience to have a greater understanding of this complex subject which has a direct impact on our daily lives. |
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