The Science Exchange’s past art exhibition –  LIFE 2.0 – explored how our notions of nature and technology may need to change in an era in which we design hybrid and synthetic life forms and can rebuild nature from the ground up.

Curated by award-winning networked artist, writer and curator, Dr Melinda Rackham, LIFE 2.0 continued her research into the art forms emerging in networked, biological, virtual and architecturally embedded practices. Works by the new breed of UK bio-art designers – Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, James King and the Cambridge iGEM team, and Revital Cohen – joined Richard Pell’s organisms of postnatural origin and Deborah Kelly’s seductive yet scary hybrid life forms.

We joined Melinda for the launch of LIFE 2.0 and learned how to take part in ‘The RiAus Adelaide Reef’, a satellite of the worldwide Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project created by Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles.

LIFE 2.0 is supported by the Major Exhibition Fund, an initiative of the Government of South Australia through Arts SA.

See more of the exhibition online here.

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