Capture the Future(s): OUR BIO-TECH PLANET

Alex May’s work was included in Capture the Future(s): OUR BIO-TECH PLANET. The Routes to Roots Networks and Beyond, a fully virtual exhibition prepared by Art Science Node for Plant Biology Europe Congress 2021. The exhibition brought together artists, scientists, and innovation-led projects in life sciences and biotechnology, with May represented through work from the CHIC residency with Anna Dumitriu and a selection from Algorithmic Photography.

This placed two distinct strands of May’s practice in productive dialogue. The CHIC material approached biotechnology through collaboration, speculation, and visual interpretation, while the Algorithmic Photography works focused on how computational systems record duration, change, and perception. Together they showed how May moves between biological and digital processes without treating either as spectacle.

The exhibition also made clear how these concerns sit within the wider practice. Whether working with plant science, biotechnology, or machine vision, May’s projects return to questions of preservation, transformation, and the unstable ways reality is captured and reconstructed through technology. A companion augmented reality app also featured a new interactive work by Alex May and Anna Dumitriu, extending the exhibition beyond the virtual gallery itself.

Further information was shared through the virtual exhibition site