NEWS & HISTORY
Michael and Michiko speaking at Courtauld Institute, London,
19 March 2024
Michael and Michiko speaking at University of Cologne, Cologne
19 December 2023
Michael and Michiko speaking at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
13 November 2023
 
New Organs of Creation exhibited at the Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw
6-8 October 2023

he Algae Opera exhibited at
Lethaby Gallery, London
11September- 15October 2023

Biota Beings
exhibited at Westminster Reference Library, London,
23 May - 15 June2023

Text Interview by Yeva Dec for magazine Contemporary LYNX, 18 Jan 2023

Michael and Michiko
speaking at Central Saint Martins, London,
10 January 2023
MAK
Michael and Michiko speaking at the Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland,
14 November 2022
MAK
Biota Beings exhibited at Podbrzezie Gallery, Krakow,
27 October-18 November 2022

Algaculture featured in book The Anthropocene cookbook
published by MIT press on
18th October 2022

Michael and Michiko speaking at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
24 October 2022
Entanglaculture exhibited at
the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, London,
3-11 September 2022
MAKAlgaculture exhibited at
Vienna Biennale For Change: Brave New Virtues
MAK
, Vienna, Austria
28May2019 - May2022
Algaculture
Algaculture
exhibited at LWL Museum of Natural History, Munster, Germany
20August 2020-Jan2022

Michael and Michiko were awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Arts, Solent Universiy
4th October 2021
ECB
Michael and Michiko speaking for Z-TOPIA
,
29th November 2020
Michael and Michiko speaking at International Conference Octopus in Interdiscipnary Perspective, Cologne, Germany
30 - 31October 2020
AlgacultureAlgaculture Symbiosis suit version4 exhibited for ECO-FICTIONS at Migros Museum, Switzerland
24 October2020-
9 May 2021

Michael and Michiko giving talk for Royal College of Art, London,
19 October 2020

Michael and Michiko
giving talk for Southampton Solent University,
16 October 2020
Altered Ways of Being
Altered Ways of Being
exhibited at
Glassmoog Gallery,
Cologne, Germany
3September-8November2020
Algaculture
Algaculture
exhibited at CID, Belgium
27 June - 29 November 2020

The Algae Opera
performance for RA lates: Deep Earth, Royal Academy of Arts, London
23 Nov 2019
Altered Ways of Being
Altered Ways of Being
exhibited at the Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Australia
13Dec2019-31Jan2020

New Organs of Creation exhibited at Bush House, Kings College London
2-13 Dec 2019

Michael and Michiko speaking at Southampton Solent University,
9 Oct 2019

Michiko running New Organs of Creation workshop at Science Gallery London,
12 Jul 2019
Okto-lab
Michael
speaking at the Okto-lab workshopCologne University, Germany
22-23 June 2019

New Organs of Creation performance at Science Gallery London,
8 May2019

The Algae Opera
exhibited within
La Fabrique du Vivant at Centre Pompidou, Paris
20Feb-15Apr 2019

New Organs of Creation exhibited in the Spare Parts season at
Science Gallery London,
27Feb - 12May 2019

Algaculture exhibited in Food Revolution 5.0 at Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2Dec2018 - 28Apr2019

Michael and Michiko speaking at Southampton Solent University,
9 Jan 2019

Michael and Michiko running workshop at Royal College of Art, London
19 Nov 2018

Michiko
speaking at
Natural History Museum, London
15 Nov 2018

Michiko
speaking at Women into Product Design Celebration Evening, Central Saint Martins, London
14 Nov 2018

Awarded Arts Council National Lottery Project grant for New Organs of Creation, 2018 - 2019
Deutsche Hygiene MuseumAlgaculture exhibited in Shine on me at Deutsche Hygene Museum,
Dresden, Germany
28Sep2018-18Aug2019

After...Birth
exhibited at out_sight Gallery, Seoul,
14 Sept - 21 Oct 2018

Michael and Michiko speaking at Royal College of Art, London
13 Sept 2018

Michael mentoring for International Fashion Showcase at Somerset House, London
Aug 2018

Landscape Within
exhibited as part of TEDx London at Southbank Centre, London
1 Jul 2018

Michael and Michiko speaking at Digital Futures: Future Food, V&A
9 Jun 2018

Algaculture
exhibited in
Food Revolution 5.0 at Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin
17 May - 30 Sept 2018

Michael speaking at PRIMER conference, San Francisco,
4 May 2018
Design Exchange
Burton Nitta featured in Design Exchange magzine by Anna Marks, 11 Apr 2018

Michae
l speaking at In Vitro Feast: Lab Grown Meats & Food curated by Makerversity at Somerset House,
8 February 2018

Michiko speaking at Conference Human Hardware at Mazda forum, Vice Barcelona,
18 January 2018

Algaculture and Gutscape featured in MOLD Magazine 02: A Seat at the Table by Sam Dunne,
January 2018

Interview with Joe Ferguson for SciArt Magazine,
December issue 2017

Food Fiction
sharing as part of Arts in Society programme at Kings College, London,
7 December 2017

Food Fiction Dining Experience
, Somerset House, London,
21 November 2017

Michiko speaking at Critical Design In Context / THIS WAY UP by Matt Malpass, Central Saint Martins,
15 November 2017

Michael and Michiko speaking at Pecha Kucha evening,
Somerset House Studios,
17 October 2017


Michael teaching as Visiting Professor at Southampton Solent University,
10,12 October 2017


Landscape Within
Solo Exhibition at Old Truman Brewery, London,
7-11 September 2017

Landscape Within
exhibition at the Westminster Reference Library, London,
18-23September 2017

Michael and Michiko speaking at Nutri-SAM workshop, University of Salford,
30-31 August 2017

Granted Arts in Society funding by King's College and Somerset House Studios for Food Fiction
2017-2018

Disembodiment
exhibited at
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2017, London,
13June-20August 2017

Michael and Michiko speaking at University of Edinburgh,
19 April 2017

ASTRONOMICAL BODIES
by Michael Burton featured in paper: Environmental Philosophy Vol.14, by Monika Bakke,
Spring 2017

Algaculture
for exhibition Food Revolution 5.0, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg,
19 May - 29 October 2017

Michael & Michiko
speaking at TEDx University of Bolton,
28 April 2017

Michael & Michiko
speaking at Central Saint Martins MA Material Futures, London,
8 March 2017

Gutscape exhibited at Spark Salon, Richmix, London
January 2017

Landscape Within
exhibited at MU Gallery, Eindhoven,
December 2016 - February 2017

Landscape Within exhibited at Tank Gallery, St Saviour's & St Olave's School, London
November-December 2016

Landscape Within
exhibited at Digital Design Weekend, V&A, London,
23-25September 2016

Granted Wellcome Trust Arts Award for Landscape Within,
2016 - 2017

Instruments of the Afterlife
exhibited at BOZAR Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF)
Brussels,
22-24 September 2016

Instruments of the Afterlife
exhibited at
Ars Electronica Festival,
Linz,
8 - 12 September 2016

Michael and Michiko speaking at Prezemiany Festival,
Copernicus Science Centre
, Warsaw,
2 September 2016

Scavenger & The Mass
exhibited at Prezemiany Festival,
Copernicus Science Centre
, Warsaw,
1 - 4 September 2016

Michael and Michiko speaking at BAL Emergence Conference, at Edinburgh University,
19 July 2016

Instruments of the Afterlife
exhibited at Human Factor, Ars Electronica at DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum,
Berlin, Germany
1July 2016 – 27August 2016

Instruments of the Afterlife
Nominated for STARTS awards, European Commission + Ars Electronica,
2016

Abandoned Biobot Type3 exhibited at
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London,
13June - 21August 2016

Algaculture
for exhibition Antwerp - À la Carte, MUSEUM AAN De STROOM, Antwerp, Belgium,
May 2016 - May 2020

Transformosphere
exhibited on the London south circular,
1 - 25 April 2016

Shadow Biosphere
featured in the German publication Tierstudien,"Experiment" issue,
October 2016

Michiko speaking at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany,
19 February 2016

Algaculture
& Body Modification for Love (Michiko Nitta) for Online Article "7 Synthetic Biology Projects Breathing Life into Science" by Anna Marks on Vice,
22 January 2016

Michael speaking at V&A, DeLux Edition as part of Digital Futures series, London,
22 January 2016

Instruments of the Afterlife
poster shown at STRATA Art and Science Collaborations in the Anthropocene conference, Aberystwyth Arts Centre Cinema, Wales,
15 January 2016

Algaculture and The Algae Opera featured in the book See Yourself X by Madeline Schwartzman, Black Dog Publishing,
January 2016

BurtonNitta featured in Disorder Magazine,
December 2015

Michael & Michiko speaking at Central Saint Martins PCID as part of Designer Profiles series, London,
10 November 2015

ASTRONOMICAL BODIES
(Michael) Exhibition for Tank Gallery at St Saviour's & St Olave's School,
October - December 2015

Isoculture and Republic of Salivation featured in the book BioArt by William Myers, Thames and Hudson,
October 2015

Instruments of the Afterlife featured in the publication Crafting Our Digital Future by Irini Papadimitriou& others, 2015

Instruments of the Afterlife
performance and exhibition at the V&A, Digital Design Weekend
26-27 September 2015

Instruments of the Afterlife featured for article When Arts meets science by Jo Philips, .Cent magazine,
27 August 2015

Beyond Goose
, fundraising artwork for Central Saint Martins Scholarship,
Auctioned on
2 July 2015
Instruments of the Afterlife
Instruments of the Afterlife
commissioned by EPSRC & Loughborough University
2015 - 2016

Republic of Salivation
featured in the book Design and Violence at MoMA,
New York
July 2015

Republic of Salivation featured in poster for Graduate Student Symposium, Parsons The New School for Design,
May 2015

The Abandoned Robot exhibited on the London south circular, London
April 2015 - March 2016

Garden signs for Rookery Gardens, London,
January 2015

Algaculture presentation at CORE event at Loughborough University
9 September 2014

Algae Opera exhibited for
The reality shift exhibition as part of BEYOND BIENNIAL at Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam
17 – 26 September 2014

Algae Opera performance for EYE Nights as part of BEYOND BIENNIALat EYE, Amsterdam
starts at 21:00 on
6 September 2014

Nominated for "idea of the year" for ARTECreative Online platforms, recommended by Director of House of Electronic arts Basel, Sabine Himmelsbach, May 2014

Algaculture exhibited for House of Electronic Arts Basel,
Basel Biennale,Switzerland,
24 May - 22 June 2014

Algaculture & The Algae Opera featured in publication Pie Paper #5 Food issue,
Summer 2014

Studio exhibition as part of Dulwich Festival,
10-18 May 2014

Hill, Dale and Ham book launch event, History walk with Steve Grindlay, London,
26 April 2014

Burton Nitta
speaking
at LateLab, New Media Scotland, Edinburgh,
5 April 2014
Radio appearance on Resonance 104.4 FM, Artist in Laboratories with Regine Debatty, 16:00 on
6 November 2013

Republic of Salivation for
exhibition
DESIGN AND VIOLENCE, MOMA
December 2013
Algaculture exhibited at Algae Biomass Summit, Algae Biomass Organization, Washington DC
30 September -
3 October 2013

New Organs of Creation
exhibited at Digital Design Weekend, Victoria and Albert Museum London
21-22September 2013
Algaculture for exhibition Consumed, Fine Arts Center Galleries, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
6 September - 9 October 2013

Algaculture & Algae Opera
goes viral click here for full listing of publications and other media appearance
Burton Nitta appeared in French/German TV documentary "Mutant Food" on ARTE.TV Tracks,
17 May 2013

Studionexhibition for Dulwich Festival,
10-19 May 2013


Isoculture laboratory project, funded by Watermans, London
March - May 2013

Algaculture
and The Race
(
Michael Burton)
for
exhibition See Yourself Sensing,
San Jose State University
1 - 30 March 2013

ASTRONOMICAL BODIES

by Michael Burton for exhibition Space Odyssey 2.0 at Z33, Belgium
17 February - 19 May 2013

Algaculture and The Race (by Michael Burton) for exhibition St.Ethien Design Biennale, France
11 February - 30 June 2013

Co.Futures
Future of high street project for SE23 area, London
January-August 2013

Trees of the world in Victoria park
Virtual foraging walk for Trees for Cities
2013

Permanent installation Airborne
at NHS hospital, Canterbury
October 2012
Article Future evolutions of our food systems, interviewed by Régine Debatty, we make money not art,
18 October 2012

Algae Opera goes viral - see full listing of Algaculture and Algae Opera press appearance here

The Algae Opera performance, Digital Design Weekend, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
22 - 23 September 2012

Launch of Research journal
After... vol1. The Birth Issue
August 2012


Permanent installation Wild and Edible virtual foraging walk, Burgess Park, London
April 2012

Algaculture featured in publication Food for the city, NAi publishers
2012

Article Plantmens kan leven van licht on newspaper NRCHANDELSBLAD
January 2012
After Agri, The Republic of Salivation and Algaculture for exhibition Food Forward, at Stroom Den Haag, the Netherlands,
15 January - 2 April 2012
Shadow Biosphere and Republic of Salivation for exhibition at TESTBED1, London
10-13 November 2011
Algaculture and Shadow Biosphere exhibited for Dulwich Festival, London,
7-15 May 2011

ASTRONOMICAL BODIES
by Michael Burton
2010

THE RACE
by Michael Burton
2007

FUTURE FARM
by Michael Burton
2007

Extreme Green Guerrillas
by Michiko Nitta
2007

Body modification for love
by Michiko Nitta
2005

 

Publications featuring our artworks

Carpina, Z. Stenslie, S. The Anthropocene Cookbook: Recipes and Opportunities for Future Catastrophes, The MIT Press, 2022. ISBN ‎ 0262047403

Stephen, J. Posthuman and Nonhuman Entanglements in Contemporary Art and the Body, Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies, 2022. ISBN 1032104082

Martinuz, M. Design Tecnologia Arte, LetteraVentidue, 2021. ASIN‎ B09L59YJVD

Schwartzman, M. See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded, Black Dog Publishing, 2018. ISBN 1910433225

Martinuz, M. Design Tecnologia Arte, LetteraVentidue, 2017. ISBN ‎ 8862422377

Rogers, J., Prescott, A., & Papadimitriou, I. Engineering Our Future. Uniform Communications Ltd. 2016. ISBN 978-0-9576868-7-8

Antonelli, P. Hunt, J. Design and Violence. The Museum of Modern Art. 2015. ISBN 0870709682

Myers,W. Bio Art: Altered Realities. Thames and Hudson Ltd. 2015. ISBN 0500239320

Papadimitriou, I., Prescott, A., & Rogers, J. Crafting Our Digital Futures. Uniform Communications Ltd. 2015. ISBN 978-0-9576868-4-7

Nova, N. Futurs ? La panne des imaginaires technologiques. Moutons électriques. 2014.
ISBN 2361831732

Storm Den Haag. Food for the city. NAi publishers. 2012. ISBN 9056628542

Earley, R. Collet, C. Material Futures 01. University of the Arts. 2012. ISBN 1906908192

 

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