Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen run a London based experimental practice that produces fictional objects, photographs, performances and videos exploring the tensions between biology and technology.
Inspired by designer species, composed wilderness and mechanical organs, they set out to create posthuman bodies, bespoke metabolisms, unnatural animals and poetic machines.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013
Artefact, STUK, Leuven
Transformism, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
2012
Born out of Necessity, MoMA, New York
Speculative Realities, Roodkapje, Rotterdam
Soft Control, Kibla, Maribor
Superhuman, Wellcome Collection, London
Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam
2011
What If? National Museum of China, Beijing
Talk To Me, MoMA, New York
Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
Alter Nature: The Unnatural Animal, Z33, Hasselt
Synth-Ethic, Natural History Museum, Vienna,
Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Liverpool
Human Plus, Science Gallery, Dublin
2010
Why Design Now? Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY
Impact!, Royal College of Art, London
Further Instructions, The Arts Catalyst, London
The Imaginarium, Uferhallen, Berlin
Repair, Festival Ars Electronica, Linz
Meta.Morf, Trondheim
Prediction + Demain #3, Saint Etienne
Designed Disorder, CUBE gallery, Manchester
Feel Home, CC Strombeek, Brussels
2009
Protofarm 2050, Suntec, Singapore
What If? Science Gallery, Dublin
ISEA, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
Boer Zoekt Stijl, Designhuis, Eindhoven
Designs of the Year, The Design Museum, London
2008
Inside Outside, Cite du Design, Saint Etienne
SELECTED TALKS
2012
BE OPEN Forum, Design Miami
Soft Control, Portal, Maribor
metaPhorest, Waseda University, Tokyo
CAI2, Sapporo
Red Tape, RCA, London
2011
Talk To Me Symposium, MoMA, NY
BIDT , Tsinghua University, Beijing
Next Nature Visual Power Show, Amsterdam
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
Young London, The Gopher Hole
A-Z Lecture, Z33, Hasselt
2010
Borderlands, OK Talk, London
Design Indaba, Cape Town
Research Methods Design Symposium, RCA
2009
Iscid World Design Congress, Singapore
Eye Of The Storm, Tate Britain, London
Science And The Nation, E:vent Gallery, London
1+1=3 Conference, CSM College, London
Speculative Storytelling Night, RCA, London
2008
Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster
University
Designing Debate, Battle of Ideas, London
Human Futures Symposium, FACT, Liverpool
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Science Museum, London
PUBLICATIONS
Bio Design: Nature Science Creativity
William Myers & Paola Antonelli
Thames & Hudson 2012
MoMA Design Series: British Design
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Five Continents Editions 2010
Design in Britain: Big Ideas (small Island)
Deyan Sudjic
Conran Octopus Ltd 2009
Human Futures: Art in the Age of Uncertainty
Andy Miah, Liverpool University Press 2008
AWARDS
RGB Prize, TDC Tokyo
First Prize, VIDA 14.0 Art and Artificial Life International Award
Wellcome Trust Arts Awards 2009, 2011
Award of Distinction, Prix Ars Electronica
Science Museum Emerging Artist Commission
Brit Insurance Designs of the Year
Nomination in the Product category
CABE Award for inclusive environment,
Design For Our Future Selves Awards, RCA
FactoryDesign Award for inclusive design process.
Design For Our Future Selves Awards, RCA