Helen Pynor

ISEA2024

Dr Helen Pynor is an interdisciplinary Artist and Researcher whose practice explores philosophically and experientially ambiguous zones, such as the life-death boundary, the intersubjective nature of organ transplantation, and the animate-inanimate boundary in relation to prosthetics. Pynor works with living and ‘semi-living’ cells, organs and biomolecules such as DNA, and in a recent work her own surgically excised bone material. She works across installation, sculpture, photography, video, media art, microscopy and performance. Pynor frequently undertakes in-depth residencies and collaborations with scientists in scientific and clinical institutions, such as The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden. Her work has been exhibited widely internationally including at Tekniska Museet (National Museum of Science and Technology) Stockholm; ZKM | Center of Art and Media, Karlsruhe; Experimenta International Triennial of Media Art, Australia; Beijing Media Art Biennale; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) Liverpool UK; Science Gallery Dublin; Science Gallery London; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney; and ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art). Pynor has received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, and national awards in Australia.