100 Years of Seaweed & Kelp
Sourced from the Algae Collection at University of California Santa Barbara with support from UCSC Arts Research Institute and the…
PROJECTS
Algae Digital Kaleidoscope & Tapestry
Scanned images of seaweed with diagrams of diatoms create a meditative tapestry and kaleidoscope fashioned for contemporary contemplation.
Algae Reliquary
3D printed sculpture 23″ x 10″ Reliquary: a container or shrine in which sacred relics are kept.
Algae Research in Joshua Tree National Park
In the desert photosynthesizing algal cells form symbiotic relationships with fungi to make lichen that attaches itself to rocks breaking…
Algae Sign
Are there signs that serve the public good about real dangers that are not apparent? These are signs that warn…
Algae Wall Cells
A cellular cabinet structure, inspired by seaweed cells otherwise invisible to the naked eye offer voyeuristic spaces that play with…
Anna Atkins Font
Created from photographic scans of Anna Atkins handwriting. Anna Atkins was a British botanist and …
Anna Atkins, British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions
British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. This publication was one of the first uses of light-sensitive materials to illustrate a book.
ARTECS Research Group at Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Researchers and students works on Art, Science, and Nature
A series of new projects exploring algae as a subject of art and science collaboration.
Back to the Anemone
Play the part of a Clown Fish looking to get back home with the Google Play video game Back to…
Bioluminescent Thursdays
The exhibition interior and exterior window with an array of video projection mapping, VR and custom lighting effects, every other…
Bleaching Pocillopora
Climate change is the greatest global threat to coral reef ecosystems. Scientific evidence now clearly indicates that the Earth’s atmosphere…
Bloom or Bust
A video of drifting images plucked from the internet reflecting an algal bloom or algae bloom as a rapid increase…
Brisbane River Turtle
an algae bloom in Australia, where he spotted a Brisbane River Turtle (emydura macquarie signata) paddling through the lake. This…
Cameron Pond Microscopy
Starting in August of 2021 and extending throughout the run of the show, Dr. Catherina Alves DeSouza, director of the…
Carbon Eater : Bert’s Biosynthesis
Algae holds amazing potential as both a food and a fuel for the future. Can we join forces as organisms…
Chalk Wall
Algae stencils for a giant chalk wall developed as part of the MOXI Museum exhibit highlight phytoplankton as chalk, also…
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration.
Historical dried seaweed pressings loaned to The Algae Society from The Vernon and Mary Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological…
Cultivating Collaboration
Nutrient runoff from industrial-scale agriculture combined with rapidly changing climate patterns has increased the severity and devastation from algae blooms…
Cyanotype Impressions of the Atlantic Ocean in Maine
Follows Atkins’ process for washing, pressing, drying and printing seaweed found in the ocean near her home in Maine.
Cyanovisions
A transdisciplinary project combining video and bioart to explore narratives of human identity, symbioses with other species, and our rapidly…
Desert Algae
Stop motion animation inspired by Dr. Juniper Harrower’s desert ecology research and Dr. Valerie Flechtner’s algal research in Joshua Tree…
Detention ~ Retention – A floating island ecosystem
The retention pond on the property of the Cameron museum enables us to have a direct collaboration with a local…
Diatomaceous
Diatomaceous Diatomaceous are glass-blown works inspired by the drawings and research of Ernst Haeckel 1834-1919. For years I have enjoyed…
Earth Day festival
The MOXI Museum booth created an Algae Watercolor workshop for the Earth Day Festival in Santa Barbara, CA.
Ebb & Flow
Climate change through the lenses of Art & Science, extending from mid-July through mid-September 2019. This Summer research trip had…
Eco / Environmental First Aid Kits
We have created a series of digital storytelling systems designed as environmental first aid kits. They are mobile in…
Entanglements – an interview by Amy Youngs
4 As a part of the 2020 ISEA conference, on July 24th 2020, artist and educator Amy Youngs agreed to…
Exploration Center
Explore algae through digital microscopes, hand held magnifying glasses and our lightboard of algal forms. Browse our library of algae…
Fieldwork: Reverberating Futures
Explores human and non-human entanglements of wonder. From Hillary’s situated location – an island in the middle of the Pacific,…
ICEBERGS: microplastics in the Arctic
by Algae Society members and Group de Investigation Arte, Technolgia y Comprimiso Social (AR-TE-CS)
Lab Stuff with Nadjejda Espinel, PhD Researcher in Marine Science
learn about the tools and techniques she uses to conduct marine science research.
Margaret Gatty, British Sea-weeds
Sourced from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, for the Confluence exhibition at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina
Oceanic Scales
Oceanic Scales Visitors to Oceanic Scales explore their role in maintaining a stable ocean ecology through a multi-sensory, interactive art…
Pacific Coast Seaweed in Wrack
Collected from beach wrack, cleaned, dried, pressed, dipped, & pinned. “Wrack” is the term for seaweed, surfgrass, driftwood, and other…
Painting Performance with Algae
algae oil and powder to create the organic shapes of algal cells found under microscopes and in natural settings. The…
Painting with Algae
Artist Jennifer Parker mixes calcium carbonate with spirulina (algae) powder, gum arabic*, and water to paint botanical style paintings phytoplankton….
Phyto Heros
Design for fun and to explore phytoplankton as a STEM to STEAM research subject through an interactive game system designed…
Pond Scum
The design for Pond Scum leans on high resolution microscopy images of algae …
Present | Past | Future?
With warm temperatures rising, and the poles melting, humankind could be forced to evolve and adapt to marine life. In…
Realms of the Oogonium
Realms of the Oogonium A world that consists of three parts, inspired by algae. The genetic code of algae has…
Roots Weaving Waves
Roots Weaving Waves Wheatgrass seeds are sown into a bed of agar agar, where their roots weave into strands of…
Sea Ice in the Arctic: a secret world
The Arctic Ocean is the most extreme ocean in regard to the seasonality of light and its year-round existing ice…
Sensing the Wrack
The Algae Society Library
Library of books with animal and plants species living in a variety of ecosystems to inspire, explore, and connect young…
Tranformaciones, arte, ecología y tecnología 2024
At the Municipal Museum of Glass Art of Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain. This experimental project traces the relationships between nature and…
Universidad Complutense de Madrid Graduate Student Work
A selection of work curated for the Drift & Migrate/Fluir & Migrar in Madrid, Spain in 2019
Visions of Algae
Images reveal the complex life of algae in the air, on the land, and in the water. Viewed from…
Wild Sun Catchers
An audio visual experiment with algae world-making, about a kelp forest mermaid living by and within the Channel Islands in…