Art Talk - Week 3
Lecture Series
Anna Dumitriu is a visual artist whose work is involved with the nature of trans-disciplinary practice-based research. She is currently Artist in Residence at The Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Dept of Informatics at Sussex University, Director of "The Institute of Unnecessary Research"
Anna Dumitriu, the "self-organising artist" discusses her work and explains her approach to trans-disciplinary art practice, what working collaboratively means to her, why she 'talks' to bacteria and why unnecessary research is so important. As Einstein said: "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
She regularly collaborates with scientists and philosophers and often tends to go very deeply into her chosen area of research, taking on, or attempting to take on, the role of scientist in an almost performative sense, raising paradigmatic questions in her work. Her installations, interventions and performances use a range of digital, biological and traditional media including video projections, mobile phones and embroidery, working with diverse audiences often in non-traditional settings.
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