CV

Selected highlights major institutions and milestone projects.

Exhibitions

Start End Exhibition Location
14 January 2026 16 May 2026 Of the Earth: Earthly Technologies to Computational Biologies Diriyah Art Futures, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
27 June 2024 30 August 2026 INVISIBLES. La vie cachée des microbes Musee De La Main, Lausanne, Switzerland
2025 AI: More Than Human Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Miami, USA
22 January 2025 18 May 2025 Touch Nature Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
18 October 2023 17 March 2024 AI: Artificial Intelligence CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain
30 September 2023 7 January 2024 Fungi - In Art and Science Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
25 March 2023 4 February 2024 Renaissance 3.0 ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
15 July 2022 8 January 2023 Unknown Unknowns 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition, Milan, Italy
2 October 2022 Gene Cultures MIT Museum, Cambridge, USA
26 March 2022 24 July 2022 The Beauty of Early Life ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
21 October 2021 31 January 2022 Artificio Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo, Santa Marta, Colombia
2020 Quarantine Ars Electronica Garden, Zagreb, Croatia
6 September 2018 10 September 2018 Error in Progress POSTCITY, Linz, Austria

Collections

Alex's work is held in the following permanent collections:

Artwork Collection Location
ArchaeaBot ZKM Karlsruhe
A Mirror For Remembering Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
Algorithmic Photography Computer Arts Society CAS50 Collection
Flow State Francis Crick Institute London
The Human Super-Organism Eden Project Cornwall
The Art and Science of Linen Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum

Residencies

Start End Residency Organisation Location
October 2024 January 2025 AI Hokusai ArtTech Research Project AI Hokusai project
2023 2024 Quantum Biology Fellowship University of Surrey Guildford, UK
2019 VERTIGO STARTS: Robot/Human Co-mobility - Cyberspecies Proximity VERTIGO STARTS
2026 EMAP/EMARE - ArchaeaBot: a post singularity, post climate change lifeform EMAP/EMARE

Awards

Date Award
2017 VR artwork about CRISPR technology - Bio-Art Contest
2015 Brighton Digital Festival Education Award
2011 My Robot Companion - Joint First Prize for Public Understanding of Artificial Intelligence
2009 Inspire Mark for Animation Decathlon

Publications

Year Title Authors Publication
2022 Fermenting Futures: An Artistic Exploration of Yeast Biotechnology A May, A Dumitriu Leonardo 55 (6), 592-598
2021 Unruly objects: NFTs, blockchain technologies and bio-conservation A Dumitriu, A May, A Velios, Z Sakki, V Korakidou, H Marçal, G Panagiaris technoetic arts: a Journal of Speculative Research 19 (3), 383-397
2021 Fermenting Futures: an artistic view on yeast biotechnology A Dumitriu, A May, Ö Ata, D Mattanovich FEMS Yeast Research 21 (5), foab042
2021 ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form A Dumitriu, A May ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life
2021 Atmospheric Encounters H Pietarinen, M Grant, O de Peyer, H Imlach, A Dumitriu, A May, P Shepherd, T Bovermann, A Yoncha, N Sandgren
2020 STARTS Residency Public Report–Cyberspecies Proximity A Dumitriu, A May, M Kusserow, O Simmonds VERTIGO–STARTS Residencies
2016 Shadows of light: the art of slow interaction A May Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
2015 Sequence A Dumitriu, A May Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2015), 367-368
2013 Exploring robot etiquette: refining a HRI home companion scenario based on feedback from two artists who lived with robots in the uh robot house KL Koay, ML Walters, A May, A Dumitriu, B Christianson, N Burke, ... International Conference on Social Robotics, 290-300
2013 Artists as HRI pioneers: a creative approach to developing novel interactions for living with robots H Lehmann, ML Walters, A Dumitriu, A May, KL Koay, J Saez-Pons, ... International Conference on Social Robotics, 402-411
2012 My familiar robot companion: preferences and perceptions of CHARLY, a companion humanoid autonomous robot for living with you ML Walters, DS Syrdal, K Dautenhahn, A Dumitriu, A May, B Christiansen, ... Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, 300-312

Talks

Date Talk Organisation Location
15 April 2026 Move Fast and Break Things: Control, Progress and the Black Box Computer Arts Society BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, London, UK
3 October 2025 Economies and [Microbial] Ecosystems SAGacia25 Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
20 July 2025 Algorithmic Memories Science Gallery Bengaluru Reading Room, Science Gallery Bengaluru, Bengaluru, India
17 January 2025 Creative Convergences: The Intersections Between Art and Science Diriyah Art Futures Diriyah Art Futures, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
11 July 2024 The Cabinet of Intangible Curiosities - Artist Talk University of Surrey University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
11 May 2023 Royal College of Art Talk with Alex May and Anna Dumitriu Royal College of Art Royal College of Art, London, UK
20 May 2021 Value(s) of NFT-ART: A critical discussion about Cryptoart and NFTs UCLA Art/Sci Online
31 March 2016 Gut Reactions: The Microbiome and Human Nature Princeton Environmental Institute Butler College, Studio '34 Cafe, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
8 February 2016 ATLAS Speaker Series University of Colorado Boulder University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA
4 February 2016 Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) University of California University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
2 April 2015 TEDx Bucharest TEDx Bucharest Bucharest, Romania
23 September 2012 Digital Design Weekend The London Design Festival Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, UK

Workshops

Date Workshop Organisation Location
19 July 2025 From Still to Spatial: Exploring Photogrammetry Science Gallery Bengaluru Science Gallery Bengaluru, Bengaluru, India
18 January 2025 Creative Photogrammetry: Digital Memories and Intangible Moments Diriyah Art Futures Diriyah Art Futures, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia