Susceptible receives STARTS Prize nomination
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Susceptible was nominated for the STARTS Prize shortlist, recognising the work’s use of biomedical research, interaction, and digital art to address global health.
Susceptible was nominated for the STARTS Prize shortlist in 2022, recognising the project’s ability to bring advanced biomedical research into a public, experiential form. Developed by Anna Dumitriu and Alex May, the work turns tuberculosis genome and imaging data from the CRyPTIC consortium into an interactive environment where visitors encounter infection, treatment, and resistance as something spatial, dynamic, and bodily.
The nomination matters because it places the work within a European context focused on projects that connect science, technology, and the arts in socially meaningful ways. Rather than treating data as illustration, Susceptible uses interaction, motion, and atmosphere to make the stakes of antimicrobial resistance felt at human scale.
For May, that approach is central to the wider practice: technical systems matter not only for what they compute, but for how they shape understanding, memory, and response. In Susceptible, that becomes a question of public health, global movement, and the invisible structures that determine who is protected and who remains at risk.
Credits
Lead artist: Anna Dumitriu
Creative technologist: Alex May
Curatorial advisor: Irini Papadimitriou