Robot House Residency   My Robot Companion   The Emergence of Consciousness   My Heart Laid Bare   Biosensing and Networked Performance   Data Steps   Robot Algorithm March   Brighton White Night   Vienna Underground/The Third Woman   The Sensitive Project   

For Anna Dumitriu's Bioart and Bacteria work see www.normalflora.co.uk. Anna Dumitriu’s work blurs the boundaries between art and science with a strong interest in the ethical issues raised by emerging technologies. Her installations, interventions and performances use a range of digital, biological and traditional media including live bacteria, robotics, interactive media, and textiles. Her work has a strong international exhibition profile and is held in several major public collections, including the Science Museum in London. Dumitriu is known for her work as founder and director of “The Institute of Unnecessary Research”, a group of artists and scientists whose work crosses disciplinary boundaries and critiques contemporary research practice. She recently completed a Wellcome Trust commission entitled “The Hypersymbiont Salon", is collaborating as a Visiting Research Fellow: Artist in Residence with the Adaptive Systems Research Group at The University of Hertfordshire (focussing on social robotics) and (Leverhulme Trust 2011) Artist in Residence on the UK Clinical Research Consortium Project “Modernising Medical Microbiology” at The University of Oxford. Since 2005 she was also a Visiting Research Fellow: Artist in Residence in the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex and still holds the honorary title. Her major international project “Trust me I’m an artist, towards an ethics of art/science collaboration” (in collaboration with the Waag Society in Amsterdam and The University of Leiden) investigates the novel ethical problems that arise when artists create artwork in laboratory settings. She is also a contributing editor to Leonardo Electronic Almanac. For The Institute of Unnnecessary Research see www.unnecessaryresearch.org. Click the links at the top of this section for information on key projects. For more information contact annadumitriu@hotmail.com