Creating speculative encounters through art, life science, and astrobiology
Art × Astrobiology • Micro to Cosmic
My work has crystallised into an art–science field, working with microbiology and centred on astrobiology.
As a lens, astrobiology opens up ontological and epistemological questions across different scales and timescales—from the microscopic to the planetary, and from deep time to possible futures.
I investigate contact and non-contact, relations with forms of life that are radically different from our own, and the shifting boundary between living and non-living matter.
I am interested in moving beyond thinking about matter primarily in terms of its utility, towards forms of exchange, interaction and co-formation.
Core Research Trajectories
2026 Red Perseverance: A Microbial Consortium For the Red Planet.
Developing a living art installation translating Martian topography into a sculptural agar landscape, where Mars-analog materials provide a setting for emergent microbial ecologies and coexistence.
Collaboration with the German Archaea Centre, Department Microbiology University of Regensburg (DE)
2026 La Vie de la Lumière: Art–Science Investigation of Bacteriorhodopsin and Light-Activated Proton Pumps.
An art–science investigation of bacteriorhodopsin, the light-activated proton pump in the purple membranes of the halophilic archaeon Halobacterium salinarum.
Collaboration with Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), CNRS, Orléans (FR)
2024–2025 BioQuantum Record: Chiral Handshakes Between Terrestrial Extremophiles and Their Extra-terrestrial Counterparts.
A speculative art-science inquiry proposing microbial-mineral “arkships” as vessels for interstellar life narratives.
Collaboration with CNRS-CBM (Centre Biophysique Moléculaire) Orléans (FR)
2023–2024 Performing Beyond the Human: Investigating the Intersection of Halobacterium salinarum and Human Performers in Multispecies Assemblages. Live Art in the Anthropocene.
A live art investigation staging human–halophilic archaeal encounters, exploring multispecies becoming in the Anthropocene.
Collaboration with the German Archaea Centre, Department Microbiology University of Regensburg (DE)