BDC Visits Arizona State University

Daniel Grushkin and Alison Irvine visited Arizona State University's Biodesign Challenge class and participated in the Emerge Festival in February, 2017. 

Emerge: A Festival of Futures

EMERGE is an annual transmedia art, science and technology festival designed to engage diverse publics in the creative exploration of our possible futures. The festival’s 2017 theme is Frankenstein, a 200-year old novel that still motivates us to think critically about our creative agency and scientific responsibility. This year EMERGE invites visitors into a house of wonder filled with speculative technologies, fortune tellers, music and film, and performative experiments that blur the boundaries between art and science. The festival revisits the past in order to reframe our sense of the present and inspire imagination of plausible futures, and asks what we can learn today by looking at emerging science and technology through the lens of art.

Held concurrently with Night of the Open Door, during which ASU invites the public into its laboratories and studios, EMERGE focuses a critical eye on the future implications of research taking place on campus and around the world. Visit us at the University Club and the Piper Lawn February 25th, from 3-9PM for installations and performances designed for all ages.

BDC visits the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. Pictured left to right: Ali Schachtschneider, Dan Grushkin, Alison Irvine, Stacey Kuznetsov (ASU), Piyum Fernando, and artist David Bowen.

BDC's Alison Irvine presents at Arizona State University's Digital Culture Speaker Series

BDC's Dan Grushkin presents at ASU's Biodesign Institute

Stabilimuntun (BDC 2016) by Jiwon Woo and Monica Butler on display at ASU's Emerge Festival

Ali Schachtschneider presents her work, Vivorium, at ASU's 2017 Emerge Festival