Piccinini creates sculptures of alien creatures and human-animal hybrids. Her work imagines biological modifications that challenge our sense of human identity.
The Carrier, 2012
The Long Awaited, 2008
Piccinini creates sculptures of alien creatures and human-animal hybrids. Her work imagines biological modifications that challenge our sense of human identity.
The Carrier, 2012
The Long Awaited, 2008
Breathing, 2008
Breathing combines organic and synthetic materials to form a “creature that responds to its environment through movement, light, and the noise of its mechanical parts. Breathing is the best way to interact with the creature.”
Nomadic Plant, 2008-11
“The work consists of a small automaton robot (nomadic plant) that moves towards water when its bacteria require nourishment. It contains vegetation and microorganisms living symbiotically inside the body of the machine.” 1
1 Fan Di’an and Zhang Ga, eds., Translife: International Triennial of New Media Art, (Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press, 2013), 201.
Tomato Quintet 3.0, 2010
Tomatoes ripening in a tent affect the installation’s sound, lighting, and music. “Visitors enter the tent through one of the five tunnels and can dance and observe the ripening tomatoes in the central cone-shaped section of the tent. The visitors’ respirations accelerate the ripening process, which in turn, accelerates the dance music and lights.”1
1 Fan Di’an and Zhang Ga, eds., Translife: International Triennial of New Media Art, (Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press, 2013), 259.
Eduina — Natural History of Enigma, 2003-2008
Kac creates a “plantimal” by combining his DNA with that of a Petunia. The result is an Eduina. “The Edunia expresses Kac’s DNA exclusively in its red veins.”1
See Kac’s website.
1 Fan Di’an and Zhang Ga, eds., Translife: International Triennial of New Media Art, (Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press, 2013), 195.