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Lyndsey Walsh is an American artist, writer, and researcher based in Berlin, DE. Lyndsey has a Bachelor’s in Individualized Studies from New York University and a Master’s in Biological Arts with Distinction from SymbioticA Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at the University of Western Australia. Lyndsey is enthralled by the ruptures in the corporeality of culture caused by technology. They are also fixated on the creatures that are born from these ruptures, as they embody both collective cultural fears and technologically mediated desires.

Lyndsey’s practice employs queer and intersectional feminist frameworks to question the tensions that can exist surrounding these creatures whose very existence resists cultural and anthropocentric binaries of human-non-human, diseased-healthy, and life-machine. Currently, Lyndsey is a visiting scholar and researcher with the Department of Experimental Biophysics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and they guest lecture at various institutions and universities. Their work has been exhibited globally and featured in art events and with institutions such as Frieze Art Week New York, the Humboldt Forum, the Ural Biennial, the Berlin Biennale, Transmediale/CTM, and more.
 

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Lyndsey is an American artist, designer, writer/editor, and lecturer based in Berlin, DE. Their work explores the instability surrounding the cultural and social aspects of disease, identity, the body, death, human and non-human relationships, and speculative narratives on the future. Currently, Lyndsey is a visiting scholar and the resident artist at theDepartment of Experimental Biophysics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in collaboration with the UniSysCat Cluster of Excellence, and they guest lecture at various institutions and universities. Lyndsey is also a contributing writer for CLOT Magazine.

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(R)EVOLUTION





2019-Ongoing


Optogenetics are a series of experimental biological techniques that propose a future where many neurological diseases in humans could one day be treated with light.

On a conceptual level, Optogenetics also gives way to the idea that humans can eventually have control over light-responsive algae for the production of biofuel, food, and other biological materials and products. However, this field of techniques opens the door for many bio-ethical issues and concerns related to genetic modification and the control of cellular behaviors in both human and non-human organisms. Aligned with the ecofeminist philosophy of Donna Haraway’s “making kin”, (R)EVOLUTION is an artistic attempt to re-articulate the relationship between algae and humans’ visual perception using performance-based techniques involved in dance and gameplay.

(R)EVOLUTION has been inspired by the hit 90s arcade game Dance Dance Revolution, which turns game players into performing dancers through their responses to programmed choreography. (R)EVOLUTION adopts the premise of Dance Dance Revolution to question how other organisms can be controlled by stimulating their sensory perception systems and turning the algae species C.reinhardtii into dancing performers that respond to programmed light choreography.

The project probes the extent to which light can be harnessed as a biotechnology to direct behaviors and biological mechanisms and the cultural impact of this potential use of technology.

(R)EVOLUTION character design and video design have been done in collaboration with Alex Lu. Sound design has been created in collaboration with Bailey Keogh and Santiago Burelli.  

(R)EVOLUTION has been funded and made in collaboration with Humboldt University of Berlin’s Department of Experimental Biophysics with scientific collaboration by Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann and Olga Baidukova, as well as the UniSysCat Cluster of Excellence.


(R)EVOLUTION has been featured at the POM 2021 Berlin conference in the track (Mirco)biocontrol and Ethics of Care. The research surrounding this project has been published in the Journal of the British Computer Society and can be found here.

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