Overall Winner Mus(T)GO
Universidad de Los Andes: Laura María Delgado, Lina María Moros, Julián Oviedo Blanco, María Paula Osorio
Runner Up
Mosquitoes and lemons
California College of the Arts: Zahra Jajarmikhayat
OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION
Bio-Balloons
Izmir University of Economics: Alara Ertenü, İdil Akünal, Zehranur Tekin, Begümnur Küçükcan, Yağmur Yeşilyurt, Mohammed Saad
OUTSTANDING SCIENCE
Power Mutualism
Tongji University: Keer Hu, Shuo Yuan
OUTSTANDING FIELD RESEARCH Tenochtitlan
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana: Mario Castro Rosas, Dante Arellano Barrón
OUTSTANDING SOCIAL CRITIQUE
Sista-Sis Biodoula Services
Robeson HS + Aula Future + FirstHand: Tahjae Garner, Michael Foreman, Sanaa Adams, Jessica Ortiz
COMMUNITY CHOICE
Sex-ED
The Design Village: Jhanvi Tiwari, Gunjana Kharbanda, Shivani Saini
OUTSTANDING INSTRUCTOR
Sam Edens
SCIENCE SANDBOX PRIZE FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Order of the BioDivine
Parsons School of Design: Rachel Gorman, Oscar Schrag, Jessica Thies
Ginkgo Prize for Biological Futures Post-Anthropocentric Vending Machines in Japan
Keio University: JiaQing Chen, Nafhan Nurul, Ivana Chaloska, Adam Jordan, Tan Chang, Lucas Ogasawara, Marie Munzi
Top 6 teams
A Hairy Issue, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Mus(t)go, Universidad de Los Andes
Mosquitoes and Lemons, California College of the Arts
SlimeVolt, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Power Mutualism, Tongji University
CaCo, Universidad del Desarrollo
Read the 2022 Director's Letter from BDC Executive Director and Founder, Daniel Grushkin:
“Seven years ago, I dreamed that by bringing students together with an interdisciplinary group of artists, designers, and biologists, we’d start meaningful conversations about the future of biotechnology. In my mind, the projects they’d produce would be largely theoretical—fodder for debate. They’d be thought experiments to help identify desirable and undesirable futures. My dream has had to evolve.”
Final Day, Awards + Speakers (June 24, 2022)
Day 1 (June 20, 2022)
Day 2 (June 21, 2022)
Day 3 (June 22, 2022)
Summit Speakers
Jennifer Willet is an artist, a Canada Research Chair in Art, Science, and Ecology, a Professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor and the Director of INCUBATOR Art Lab, founded in 2009. She is a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists in the Royal Society of Canada. Willet is a leader in the Canadian bioart community, and works internationally as an artist and curator in the field. In 2018, Willet opened a new state-of-the-art bioart laboratory, and in 2020 a storefront bioart studio and community engagement lab in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Ani Liu is an internationally exhibiting research-based artist working at the intersection of art and science. Her work examines the reciprocal relationships between science, technology and their influence on human subjectivity, culture, and identity. Reoccurring themes in the work include gender politics, biopolitics, labor, reproduction, simulation, and sexuality. Ani's work has been exhibited internationally—including at the Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica, and Boston Museum of Fine Arts—and has been featured on National Geographic, VICE, TED, Core77, WIRED and more. Ani is passionate about integrating multidisciplinary approaches to art making, and is currently an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Ani has previously taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Princeton University, Columbia University, and is on critique panels at Harvard, Dartmouth, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, NYU, UNC Charlotte, Pratt, and Parsons.
Sunanda Sharma is a creative biologist and interdisciplinary scientist interested in questions of astrobiology, evolution, ecology, biodiversity, origin of life, and artificial life. As a designer, she practices biodesign motivated by non-human and non-Earth centric perspectives. She completed her PhD and MS at the MIT Media Lab as part of The Mediated Matter Group, led by Prof. Neri Oxman.
Summit Judges
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Thank you to the creators who made our BDC Summit breaks so inspiring!
Sonic Cellumonials, Baum & Leahy, Greg Orrom Swan, Sofie Birch
When Microbes Dream, Jennifer Willet, 2021
Nature x Humanity, Neri Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group, 2021
Swarm Raid, Anna Lindemann, 2019
Mind-Controlled Spermatozoa, Ani Liu, 2017
Where Do Gardens Come From? Orkan Telhan + elli, 2022
Swan Song at Pioneer Works, Gal Nissim and Leslie Ruckman, 2021
Chthulucene, Jiabao Li, 2022
Rhapsody for an Expanded Biotechnological Apparatus Laura Splan, 2021, tactile sound installation at the Tang Teaching Museum
OKPoopid, Kathy High, 2017