Ars Electronica Festival · 2019
Wastelands
by Tagny Duff
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2019
“Wastelands” by Tagny Duff received a Honorary Mention in the Artificial Life & Intelligence category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2019.
*Wastelands* is a playful, yet serious biological art project that explores speculative fiction scenarios and current bioengineering practices applying methanogenic bacteria, archaea, and bacteriophage to regulate methane production through anaerobic degradation.
About Tagny Duff
Tagny Duff (CA) is an interdisciplinary media artist, scholar, and educator working across media art and microbiology with a keen interest in viruses, microbial interaction and scientific practices from a cultural point of view.
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