Ars Electronica Festival · 2025
Plato's Prisoners
by Cody Lukas
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2025
Cody Lukas's “Plato's Prisoners” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2025, category Artificial Life & Intelligence.
Plato’s Prisoners is an immersive, interactive installation powered by the neural activity of cerebral organoids—lab-grown “mini-brains” cultivated from human stem cells. These three-dimensional clusters of brain cells, commonly used in biomedical research to explore neurological diseases and drug effects, are here…
About Cody Lukas
Cody Lukas (DK) is a Danish-Canadian artist, specializing in conceptual art, driven by a fascination with emerging technologies, ranging from synthetic biology to machine learning.
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