Collaboration: Joe and I worked together on the Hoodie Labcoat that he wore to accept the 2012 Ars Electronica’s (Linz, Austria) Golden Nica Award in the Hybrid Art Category for Bacterial Radio.
Description: We went through a few prototypes before arriving at an optimized design, that has become as iconic with Joe, as it has with his colleagues and friends, like George Church one of the founding members of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
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Joe Davis (b. 1950) is a research affiliate in the Department of Biology at MIT and in the George Church Laboratory at Harvard Medical School.
For more about Joe as the pioneer of Bioart: Heaven+Earth+Joe Davis (2010, documentary by Peter Sasowsky), Hexagram.
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Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is an Austrian cultural, educational and scientific institute active in the field of new media art, founded in 1979. It runs an annual festival, and manages a multidisciplinary media arts R&D facility known as the Futurelab. They are headquartered at the Ars Electronica Center (AEC), which also houses the Museum of the Future.
Images: accepting the Golden Nica, Bacterial Radio, Joe in the lab, George Church in the Hoodie Labcoat, Joe as Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, documentary poster.