Neus Torres Tamarit Art

Group picture. From left to right: Neus Torres Tamarit,  Dr Christelle Soudy, Bea Haynes, and Ben Murray Binding Art and Science is a workshop developed in collaboration with Dr Christelle Soudy (Francis Crick Institute), artist Bea Haynes, data scientist Ben Murray, and myself (Ben and I as Phenotypica). The workshop responds to Soudy's research in drug design for cancer research.  The objective of the workshop was to use Soudy's lab equipment to do the research, as a metaphor for the designed drug, and the public would have to construct the tumor cell around it. To make the tumor cell, we took the sequence of aminoacids of a real cancerous cell, that Soudy has already worked with, printed it onto paper and cut into sequences.  The real aminoacids are similar in shape, so we made five groups that were representative of those, we assigned them geometrical shapes, and we cut on the CNC pieces of foam with those shapes. In the workshop, people took a sequenc...

Thrilled to be exhibiting at the Grant Museum of Zoology, one of the oldest zoology museums in the UK! https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/whats-on/agonism-antagonism In Darwin’s world of ‘survival of the fittest’, what happens when evolution affects genders differently? Agonism / Antagonism is an exhibition resulting from artist Neus Torres Tamarit’s residency in the laboratory of Dr Max Reuter, in the Research Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Environment at UCL, and part of a long-term collaboration with computer scientist Ben Murray. Dr Reuter and his team use fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) to conduct research into the evolution of sexual antagonism: a genetic tug of war between the sexes. The different needs of the genders within a sexually reproducing species inevitably result in this phenomenon, where what is best for one gender may be actively detrimental for the other. On the surface, this process may seem problematic for the species, but research incr...

Biomorpha 3D, 2017 Variable dimensions Mixed media: digital prints on acetate, magnets, video This installation is the first response to my artist residency at the Reuter Laboratory at UCL. Dr Max Reuter and his team use fruit flies and yeast to conduct research into the forces that drive and constrain evolution. This first part of the residency has been quite challenging for me. I have spent the last two years thinking about genetics as a subject for art; now I spend my time with research scientists who must develop a very deep understanding of a very specific part of genetics. I created these artworks to reflect my experience of their experience of science. I have used a combination of images taken through microscopy and images of a 3D version of the Confined Mutations / Biomorpha digital lifeform. They are deconstructed, defocused and decontextualized so that detail is enhanced but context is lost. Some microscopy images are of fruit fly cocoons, others are of biop...

From the 20th to the 24th of September 2017, we exhibited at Clinic //2, an exhibition curated by Vitamin Design studio in partnership with the London Design Festival and Oxo Tower. Clinic //2 explored the diminishing digital interface layer and technology’s effect on our reality. Digital emulation continually strives to become indecipherable from real-world existence. Where does your reality stop and simulation begin? Vitamin Design studio invited us to exhibit our installations Confined Mutations and a selection of the artworks belonging to Biomorpha (Evolving Structures). When we arrived to the emblematic Oxo Tower, we decided to turn our piece Confined Mutations into a site-specific installation, as we wanted our abstract digital organisms to interact with the features of the space as much as possible. Site-specific adaptation of Confined Mutations We decided to project the animations on the structure of two old windows, which had a mixture of materials such as gla...