News and History of Burton Nitta

NEWS & HISTORY

I Need You...screening at Minding Animals symposium, Munster, Germany, 15-16 November 2024	Michael and Michiko speaking at Courtauld Institute, London, 27 October2024	Michael and Michiko participated in an Artist In Residence, Slough, September 2024
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
The 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
Michael and Michiko speaking at the Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland, 14 November 2022	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	Algaculture exhibited at Vienna Biennale For Change: Brave New Virtues MAK, Vienna, Austria 28May2019 - May2022	Algaculture exhibited at LWL Museum of Natural History, Munster, Germany 20August 2020-Jan2022	Altered Ways of Being featured in the book Posthuman and nonhuman entanglements in contemporary art and the body, May 2022
Michael and Michiko were awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Arts, Solent Universiy 4th October 2021	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	Algaculture 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 exhibited at Glassmoog Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 3September-8November2020	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 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 ober 2019
Michiko running New Organs of Creation workshop at Science Gallery London, 12 Jul 2019	Michael speaking at the Okto-lab workshop Cologne 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	Algaculture exhibited in Shine on me at Deutsche Hygene Museum, Dresden, Germany 28Sep2018-18Aug2019
After...Birth exhibited at out_sight Gallery, Seoul, 14 September - October2018	Michael and Michiko speaking at Royal College of Art, London 13 Sept ember2018	Michael mentoring for International Fashion Showcase at Somerset House, London August 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	Burton Nitta featured in Design Exchange magzine by Anna Marks, 11 Apr 2018
Michael 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 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