Cesar & Lois
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ISEA2022
Cesar & Lois probes the evolution of humanity’s relationship to nature by advancing intersections between technological and biological systems. The collective, comprised of Lucy HG Solomon and Cesar Baio, strives to build bhiobrid intelligent artworks by crossing different organisms, such as bacteria, fungi and protists with technological elements, including Artificial Intelligence, data mining and social networks. Through interactive artworks with embedded research and sometimes specimens, the duo ponders the logic based in the growth of microbiological organisms and studies how this can inform human logic, with the goal of positing a post-anthropocentric future. Their work, “Degenerative Cultures,” was featured in the 2021 Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition in the UK. Cesar & Lois received the Lumen Prize in Artificial Intelligence (2018), were selected for the Global Digital Art Prize Biennale in Singapore (2019) and as artists in residence at Coalesce Center for Biological Arts (2020) and UC Davis Hess Laboratory.
