Ani Liu: Smelfies, and other experiments in synthetic biology
Ani Liu: Smelfie și alte experimente din biologia sintetică
Ani Liu explores the intersection between technology and sensory perception. Full bio
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levels in the soil
de toxicitate din sol
through the color of its leaves?
prin culoarea frunzelor lor?
remove those toxins from the soil?
să elimine toxinele din sol?
pentru a putea fi culese
ale proprietarilor lor.
of mass-produced commodities?
obținerii produselor de consum?
and researcher at MIT Media Lab,
și cercetător la MIT Media Lab,
and unique group called Design Fiction,
și unic numit Design Fiction,
between science fiction and science fact.
între science fiction și știință.
to rub shoulders with scientists
să fiu alături de oameni de știință
there's truly brilliant scientists
de știință geniali
"How can I make the world a better place?"
„Cum pot face lumea un loc mai bun?”
likes to ask is, "What is better?"
din care fac parte e: „Ce e mai bine?”
about the work-life balance at your office
despre echilibrul muncă-viață personală
on the first day?
standard din prima zi?
of artists and designers
și al designerilor
and feel the future,
time to be a designer,
interesantă să fii designer,
care devin accesibile.
as a design problem.
pentru modificarea designului.
and responsibilities
care sunt rolurile și responsabilitățile
scientist or businessman?
sau ale unui om de afaceri?
of what it means to be a human?
despre ceea ce înseamnă să fii om?
on society, on evolution
asupra societății, asupra evoluției
at the current moment
emoțional mai puternic.
as a design space,
a smell selfie, a smelfie?
folosind mirosul, un smelfie.
your own natural body odor
mirosul natural propriu
was a 19th century Austrian tradition,
austriacă în secolul XIX,
would keep a slice of apple
țineau o felie de măr
she most fancied her used fruit,
pe care îl plăcea,
multe scrisori de dragoste lui Josephine,
many love letters to Josephine,
is this brief and urgent note:
e acest bilețel scurt și urgent:
adored violets.
cât și Josephine adorau violetele.
un parfum cu miros de violete,
un buchet de violete
entombed them in a locket
pe care le-a pus într-un medalion
to smell just like Josephine?
să miroasă ca Josephine?
just as Napoleon loved her?
același pe care Napoleon îl îndrăgea?
de a plânge pe cineva,
transgenic crops
am produs culturi transgenice
de depozitare lungă,
but resist pests,
dar care rezistă la pesticide,
of nutritional value.
for an emotionally sensitive output?
emoțional senzitiv?
what makes a human smell like a human?
ce face un om să miroasă ca un om?
your medications, your lifestyle
tratamentul medicamentos, stilul de viață
is mostly odorless,
your mood, your identity
de identitate
of molecules that you emit
pe care le emitem,
ale corpului meu.
de știință ne-am gândit,
30 percent underarm,
30% de la subraț,
I let researchers from other labs
din alte laboratoare
how smell of the body
cum e perceput mirosul corporal
of the context of the body.
a set of carnivorous plants
câteva plante carnivore
fleshlike odors to attract prey,
pentru a atrage prada,
this symbiotic relationship
o relație simbiotică
I'm at MIT and I'm in a bar,
and a plant scientist,
like botany for lonely women."
pentru o femeie singură.”
that can love me back?"
ce mă poate iubi?”
he was like, "Sure, why not?"
„Sigur, de ce nu?”
can we get a plant to grow towards me
putem face plantele să crească spre mine
in plants such as phototropism,
cum ar fi fototropismul,
to grow towards the sun
on the shady side.
pe partea umbrită.
a set of lipsticks
on its own chemical signatures --
prin propria semnătură chimică,
to grow where I kiss it,
acolo unde le sărut,
where I kiss the bloom.
dacă le sărut bobocii.
when we can reengineer its properties,
îi putem reconstrui proprietățile,
sau pentru utilitate?
to create work as moving as music?
la fel de emoționante ca muzica?
our emotional landscape?
peisajului nostru emoțional?
that form follows function.
spune că forma urmează funcția.
between science, design and art
între știință, design și artă,
ar forma realitatea?
would we ask together?
ca la un răspuns,
dar care e întrebarea?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ani Liu - Designer, artistAni Liu explores the intersection between technology and sensory perception.
Why you should listen
Ani Liu is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art and science. Currently at MIT Media Lab, she creates research-based art that explores the social, cultural and ethical implications of emerging technologies. In the search to link scientific innovation with emotional tangibility, her work has spanned the scales of architectural installations, wearable prosthetics, augmented reality and synthetic biology.
Liu's work has been presented at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Asian Art Museum, MIT Museum, MIT Media Lab, Wiesner Gallery, Harvard University, Open Gallery, Powerhouse Alliance Conference, Buildings as Cities Inaugural Conference and TEDxBeaconStreet. Her work has been featured in several publications, including See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded and Solid: Design Techniques.
In 2014-15, she led the research program in Sensory Mediation at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, which explores how information visualization, augmented reality and other emerging technologies can be harnessed to extend the human sensorium to redefine spatial experience.
She taught as an Associate Instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she co-taught an advanced-level architectural studio called Architecture of Cultural Prosthetics: Tools for Communication and Expression in the Public Space with Krzysztof Wodiczko.
Liu has a BA from Dartmouth College and received a Masters of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, earning a distinction for her thesis in wearable technologies, responsive environments and cultural prosthetics. She continually seeks to discover the unexpected, through playful experimentation, intuition and speculative storytelling.
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