December 13, 2012

Allison Kudla (US)

Allison Kudla (US) is currently living in Seattle, Washington. She has recently returned to the States after working at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India. She was awarded her Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Washington’s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) in 2011. She also holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002. In her most recent projects, she has been exploring the combination of patterns, fabrication technologies and plant tissue culturing to make living installations.

Her work, The Search for Luminosity, was published in “Art + Science Now” by Stephen Wilson. More recently, she received Honorary Mention in Hybrid Arts at Ars Electronica 2010 for her work capacity for (urban eden, human error). The same work also received Honorary Mention in the Vida Competition for Art and Artificial Life. Her work, Growth Pattern, was included in the group shows ”Alter Nature: We Can” at Z33 in Belgium and “When Process Becomes Paradigm” at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Spain. She is currently a part of a touring exhibition called “Intimate Science”, curated by Andrea Grover.