Anna Dumitriu’s work has been internationally featured on TV and radio, in books, journal papers, and in the press, including BBC 2, BBC Global World News, Arte Tracks, The Guardian, Frieze, Artforum, The Lancet, The BMJ , The LA Times, BBC Radio 4 and La 2 (Spanish National TV). She has also authored a significant number of high impact papers, articles and book chapters and books. She welcomes invitations for interviews, profiles and commissioned writing projects.
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2024
“Fragile Microbiomes” a solo exhibition by Anna Dumitriu is featured in “Top Picks of Exhibitions in Manchester and the North” by on Creative Tourist, April 2024 (UK)
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity, Post Climate Change Life-form” is explored in “À perte d’énergie – La survie du numérique sans électricité?” by Antonin Jousse in La Mire Magazine, April 2024, (France)
“Fragile Microbiomes” a solo exhibition by Anna Dumitriu was featured in “Leeds museum unveils ‘plague dress’ in new exhibition” by Julia Bryson on BBC News, February 2024 (UK)
“Fragile Microbiomes” a solo exhibition by Anna Dumitriu was reviewed in “Thackray Museum Of Medicine: Fragile Microbiomes” by Debbie Rolls on Leeds Living, February 2024 (UK)
“Fragile Microbiomes by Anna Dumitriu at Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds” was reviewed by Stan Graham on Tyke It To The Limit, February 2024 (UK)
“Fragile Microbiomes” a solo exhibition by Anna Dumitriu was featured in “Thackray Museum of Medicine: Yorkshire museum breaks the mould with contemporary bio-art show: Art meets science with the first exhibition of its kind at a museum in Yorkshire” by Steve Teale in the Yorkshire Post, February 2024 (UK)
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” was the lead image for “30 years of CCCB: more alive than ever” in Revista Mercurio, February 2024 (Spain)
“Fragile Microbiomes” a solo exhibition by Anna Dumitriu was featured in “Art Meets Science: ‘Plague Dress’ Exhibition Explores Microbial World at Leeds Museum” by Israel Ojoko on BNN Breaking, February 2024 (UK)
“Fragile Microbiomes” a solo exhibition by Anna Dumitriu was featured in “Thackray Museum Unveils Ground-Breaking Exhibition: Fragile Microbiomes” in the Yorkshire Times, February 2024 (UK)
“Fragile Microbiomes” a solo exhibition by Anna Dumitriu was featured in “Thackray Museum Unveils Ground-Breaking Exhibition: Fragile Microbiomes” in the Lancashire Times, February 2024 (UK)
“Fragile Microbiomes” a solo exhibition by Anna Dumitriu was featured in “Thackray Museum Unveils Ground-Breaking Exhibition: Fragile Microbiomes” by Simon Fogal on Chapter 81, February 2024 (UK)
“Fragile Microbiomes” a solo exhibition by Anna Dumitriu was featured in “Thackray Museum Unveils Ground-Breaking Exhibition: Fragile Microbiomes” in Yorkshire Bylines, February 2024 (UK)
“Fragile Microbiomes” a solo exhibition by Anna Dumitriu was featured in “Thackray Museum Unveils Ground-Breaking Exhibition: Fragile Microbiomes” on Chimeo – A Celebration of the Arts, February 2024 (UK)
“The Unnatural that too is Natural” is featured on Michigan State University’s website in an article about the exhibition “Food Fight!”, “New MSU Museum exhibition uncovers the complex dynamics that shape our food system” at MSU Museum, January 2024 (USA)
2023
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” is prominently featured in “AI and a blue potato at the bottom of a test tube” by David González in El Nacional.cat in Catalan and Spanish (read also in English), December 2023 (Spain)
“Fermenting Futures” was featured in “Dense Programme in Nobel Week” on Science at ORF (Austrian National TV), December 2023 (Austria)
“Fermenting Futures” was featured in “Ferenc Krausz takes you into the “Atto World” in “Nobel Week” on PULS 24, December 2023 (Austria)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed for “Beyond Collaboration at the CoLab Studio” by Morgan Butts for MSU Museum’s Blog, December 2023 (USA)
“BioArt Knowledge” a solo exhibition by Anna Dumitriu is featured in “BIOART: WORKS BY ANNA DUMITRIU AT THE YARROW GALLERY” by Oundle School, November 2023 (UK)
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” was featured in “Artificial Intelligence: born to make us doubt: An exhibition at the Barcelona CCCB reviews its origin and challenges” on MASDEARTE.COM, October 2023 (Spain)
“Bridging Science and Art: Five bioartists you should know about” by Roohi Mariam Peter was published by Labiotech, October 2023 (EU)
“Bioart and the stylized forms of the disease – the Anna Dumitriu exhibition at the Bastionul Maria Theresia” a review of Anna Dumitriu’s exhibition “BioArt Revolution” by Nona Rapotan was published by Book Hub, October 2023 (Romania)
Exposición “IA: Inteligencia Artificial” en el CCCB by María Muñoz was featured on NEO2, October 2023 (Spain)
Solo exhibition by Anna Dumitriu “BioArt Revolution” was featured in “BIOART REVOLUTION: an exhibition exploring revolutionary events in microbiology, science and technology through art” in ROMANIA POSITIVA, September 2023 (Romania)
Solo exhibition by Anna Dumitriu “BioArt Revolution” was featured in “The BioArt Revolution: Revolutions in Microbiology, Science and Technology Seen Through Art” by Andreea Nistor in Stiri de Timisoara, September 2023 (Romania)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed as part of “Beyond Collaboration at the CoLab Studio” as part of Arts MSU at Michigan State University Museum, September 2023 (USA)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed about her work in “Creazioni Non Infettive” by Erika Villa for RADAR Magazine, July 2023 (Italy).
The exhibition “Digestible” at Artphy which includes a new project “Uninhibited Faba” by Anna Dumitriu was featured in an article on RTV Westerwolde, July 2023 (Netherlands)
The Better Factory: Internet of Art and Wine (IoWA) project was featured in “Meet IOWA: Behind the scenes of Better Factory” by Charlotte Tucker for Better Factory, July 2023 (Spain).
“Unruly Objects: Living Latex” was featured in “Painting a Sustainable Future” by Dr Carolyn Allen in the Leverhulme Trust’s Newsletter, June, 2023 (UK)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed about her work in “Anna Dumitriu: Exploring the Intersection of Art, Science, & Technology” by Beth Ranson for Public Health Landscape, April 2023 (USA).
“Fermenting Futures” was featured by WHERE THE LEAVES FALL in #The Rhizome by Madeleine Bazil, March 2023 (UK).
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed about her work in “We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for bacteria’, Anna Dumitriu, the author of a Wearable Cure of Plague” by Sima Piterskaia for Lunatum Magazine, March 2023 (Italy).
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” was featured on ARTouch (Taiwan) as part of “Future Body: Supernatural Sculpture” Inquiry from Sculpture An Exploration Starting with Sculpture: SUPERNATURAL: Sculptural Visions of the Body” by Wang Xinhe, March 2023 (Taiwan).
The Cholera Dress, the Syphilis Dress and Souvenir were featured in “Cholera and Syphilis Captured in BioArt” on the Wellcome Sanger Blog by Alison Cranage, Science Writer at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, March 2023 (UK).
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” was featured in United Daily News (Taiwan) as part of “North American Pavilion – Future Body: Supernatural Sculpture” – The aesthetic tone of hyper-realistic sculpture explores the future shape of the human body in the post-human era” by Fei Chizhong Art Network, March 2023 (Taiwan).
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” was featured in Elle Magazine (Taiwan Edition) as part of “In the era of AI artificial intelligence, the physical fantasy of future human beings? Must-see Highlights of “Future Body: Supernatural Sculpture” Exhibition at the North American Pavilion” by Dominique Chiang, February 2023 (Taiwan).
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” was featured in Scientific American (Taiwan Edition) as part of “North America Pavilion “Future Body: Supernatural Sculpture”! How Science Changes the Post-Human Era“, February 2023 (Taiwan).
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” was featured in Bella (Taiwan Edition) as part of “Forget about AI drawing! 6 Highlights of the “Future Body” Exhibition at the North American Pavilion: Gathering 23 International Artists “Supernatural Body Sculpture” by Yui, February 2023 (Taiwan).
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” was featured in La Vie (Taiwan Edition) as part of “North American Pavilion – Future Body: Supernatural Sculpture”! Shock your physical imagination of the post-human era” by Carol Chien, February 2023 (Taiwan).
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” was featured in 500 Times as part of “Future Body: Supernatural Sculpture – North American Pavilion 2/18-6/4: Exploring the fantasy of the body in the post-human era” by Shen Peizhen, February 2023 (Taiwan).
2022
An artist profile exploring the background of Anna Dumitriu has been by written by Diane Pricop of Obsolete Studios in both English and French, November 2022 (Romania/France).
“Zenexton” was featured on the cover of the 2022 annual report of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Surrey, and interviewed in the article “The Art of Human Health” about her residency in the Faculty of Health and Medical Science, November 2022 (UK)
The “Unruly Objects” project is featured in an online interview with Anna Dumitriu by Diane Pricop of Obsolete Studios in both English and French, November 2022 (Romania/France)
Anna Dumitriu’s solo exhibition “Collateral Effects” was reviewed by Daily Info Oxford, October 2022 (UK)
Anna Dumitriu’s solo exhibition “Collateral Effects” was featured in Ox Magazine in “The BioArt of Anna Dumitriu“, October 2022 (UK).
Anna Dumitriu’s solo exhibition “Collateral Effects” was featured in “Are you sitting uncomfortably” by Esther Lafferty in Cotswold Life, October 2022 (UK).
Anna Dumitriu’s solo exhibition “BioArt Alchemy” was featured in “Art to make you think in new ways about Malta and mankind” by Esther Lafferty in the Times of Malta, September 2022 (Malta).
Anna Dumitriu was featured, for the second time, in Axisweb’s Five2Watch under the theme of Health and Wellbeing, July 2022 (UK)
“Unknown Unknowns” The 23rd Triennale Milano, featuring “ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” was described in Selections, July 2022 (Italy)
“Unknown Unknowns” The 23rd Triennale Milano, featuring “ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” was described in DOMUS, July 2022 (Italy)
The exhibition “Biomedia” was discussed by Stéphanie Lemoine in Vies artificielles in Le Journal des Arts, June 2022 (France)
Cyberspecies Proximity is discussed in BIOMEDIA : L’ÈRE DES MÉDIAS SEMBLABLES À LA VIE by Dominique Moulon in ArtPress, May 2022 (France)
Anna Dumitriu’s work is discussed in How to Use Art to Spark STEAM Conversations by on The American Association for the Advancement of Science blog, May 2022 (USA)
Anna Dumitriu discussed how she came to be Science Gallery International’s most exhibited artist in Science Gallery Stories, May 2022 (Ireland)
Work by Anna Dumitriu was explored as part of Regine Rapp’s article “Coexistences: About human and non-human actors” by Regine Rapp in Kunstforum International, May 2022 (Germany)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Eve Smallman in “There’s a science to it” for Surrey Life Magazine, April 2022 (UK)
Work by Anna Dumitriu is discussed in “Living and moving artefacts – What you need to know about BioArt” by Sipos Tünde on Kortárs Online, April 2022 (Hungary)
The exhibition “Wunderkammer BioArt” was featured in “Anna Dumitriu and Alex May: Wunderkammer BioArt” in Wiesbaden Lives!, April 2022 (Germany)
The exhibition “Wunderkammer BioArt” was featured in “The aesthetics of gene scissors: British artists show fascinating BioArt in Wiesbaden” in Sensor Wiesbaden, April 2022 (Germany)
The exhibition “Wunderkammer BioArt” was featured in KUNSTHAUS WIESBADEN SHOWS NEW EXHIBITION “WUNDERKAMMER BIOART. WORKS BY ANNA DUMITRIU AND ALEX MAY” in Rhein-Main Eurokunst, April 2022 (Germany)
The exhibition “Fermenting Futures” was featured in Design Austria, Issue 01 22, March 2022 (Austria)
Review of the exhibition Fermenting Futures at Kunstlerhaus Wien “In dieser Kunst arbeitet die Hefe” by Sabine B Vogel in Die Presse (Austrian National Newspaper), 16th March 2022 (Austria).
“How to combine science and art? Five contemporary British artists answer” by Katya Zagvozdkina for PostNauka Magazine, in partnership with the British Council / Culture and Education Section British Embassy Moscow, February 2022 (Russia)
“Surrey’s research offers fertile ground for artistic expression“, University of Surrey News, February 2022 (UK)
“Tang’s Radical Fiber show weaves together beauty, artistry, science” by Tresca Weinstein in The Times Union (A New York Daily Newspaper), February 2022 (USA).
“Studio Visit with Anna Dumitriu: Exploring the Sublime Beauty of Micro-organisms and their Place in the World” by Brice Marsters for Scientific Inquirer, January 2022 (USA).
2021
“Fermenting Futures” was featured in “Artistic fermentation studies with surprising results” in Der Standard (an Austrian national newspaper). December 2021 (Austria)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Genscript Europe for their LifeScientist blog in “Trust me, I’m an Artis Part 1″. November 2021 (Netherlands).
“Latest News from Anna Dumitriu, NCTC Artist in Residence“. National Collection of Type Cultures, UK Health Security Agency (formerly Public Health England), October 2021 (UK).
“Fermenting Futures” was featured on FEMS (The Federation of European Microbiology Societies) blog in
“#FEMSmicroBlog: Fermenting Futures and the artistic view on yeast biotechnology” by project collaborator Özge Ata Akyol. September 2021 (Netherlands).
Anna Dumitriu was In Conversation with Lois Harkin in Nowadays Contemporary Art Publication. July 2021 (UK).
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Rachel Stewart in Bits: Revisiting Anna Dumitriu’s Work for Art the Science Blog. July 2021 (Canada). This was also reposted by Adafruit Blog as “The Biological Robot Art of Anna Dumitriu“. July 2021 (USA)
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” is featured in the New Art Highlights on Axisweb. July 2021 (UK).
“Shielding” is featured in the Art Gallery Brochure of the 31st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Conference. July 2021 (Austria).
“Ex Voto” is featured in “The Plague shows our human vulnerability. That results in a beautiful collection of art ★★★★★” a review of The Plague at the Valkhof Museum in Nijmegen written by Anna van Leeuwen in the Dutch daily national newspaper de Volkskrant (see the English translation here). June 2021 (Netherlands)
A new article in In Park Magazine, “New collaborative exhibit arrives this fall at Kunsthal Charlottenborg” features “The World is in You“, the gallery’s major autumn 2021 exhibition in collaboration with Medical Museion. The exhibition will a new and updated version of “Hypersymbiotics“.
“The Plague Dress” was described in “Art After the Pandemic” in an article by Stamatis Alexis in the major national Greek daily newspaper To Vima. April 2021 (Greece)
The work of Anna Dumitriu was featured in “Las bacterias hacen arte, así es el bioarte de Anna Dumitriu“, in Fahrenheit Magazine. February 2021 (Mexico)
2020
“Plague Dress” was featured in “The Plague Dress, Clothing for Pandemic Times” by Neural. October 2020 (Italy)
“Cyberspecies Proximity” was featured in “Tricks for human robots to fit into society – wanted or unwanted?” by Tiwánee van der Horst on Waag’s We Make Open Design Lab blog. September 2020 (Netherlands).
“Plague Dress” was featured in “Contagious! Visiting an Exhibition on Epidemic Diseases” by Ruben Verwaal on THE POLYPHONY: Conversations Across the Medical Humanities. September 2020 (UK).
“Plague Dress” was featured in “Go/No Go: Plague, Smallpox and other Pandemics” by Charlotte Hercules in De Kunstmeisjes. September 2020 (Netherlands).
Anna Dumitriu was in conversation with artist and TB activist Paulina Siniatkina in “The Art of Healing” by Marina Antsiperova in The Blueprint. July 2020 (Russia).
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Sue Wang for CAFA Art Info (Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing) in “Inside or Outside: Reflections from International Art Practitioners on the Pandemic“. English version June 2020, republished in Chinese as “疫情内外：来自国际艺术从业者的思考“, July 2020 (China)
University of Leiden have featured Anna Dumitriu’s “Plague Dress” in an article about the exhibition “Contagious!” at the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave entitled “Rijksmuseum Boerhaave opens exhibition with major role for corona crisis” by Ramón van Doorn. July 2020 (Netherlands).
Anna Dumitriu’s collaboration with the National Collection of Type Cultures is featured in “6,000 Strains of Bacteria Under 1 Roof” by Jennifer Pinkowski in the New York Times. Republished in the Chicago Tribune. June 2020 (USA).
Anna Dumitriu and Alex May were interviewed by Schindler in “Sharing a Space with a Robot” about their STARTS residency with the company which led to their “Cyberspecies Proximity” project. May 2020 (Switzerland)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Gabriella Warren-Smith in “Anna Dumitriu and the Pandemic” for Cognitive Sensations, May 2020 (UK)
Anna Dumitriu’s work is mentioned by Stéphanie Lemoine in “Imaginaires du virus” in L’ŒIL Magazine – Journal Des Arts, May 2020 (France)
Anna Dumitriu’s artwork is described by Olivia Preston in “Opposites Attract” CENT Magazine, May 2020 (UK)
The Plague Dress and MRSA Quilt are featured in “What Can a Surgeon Learn from a Tailor? Harnessing the Healing Art of Thread” in Frieze Magazine, April 2020 (UK).
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Gabriele Sankalaite for UNBORE on the subject of “Infectious Diseases and Future Histories” on the event of her joining the advisory board of UNBORE, April 2020 (Netherlands)
The Plague Dress is featured in “E antes da Covid-19? Como a arte registou as grandes pandemias da História?” by Silvia Souto Cunha in the weekly news magazine Visão, April 2020 (Portugal).
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed in “Le Virus Comme Médium Artistique” by Mouvement Art Magazine (online as print version not done due to COVID-19 Pandemic) April 2020 (France).
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed as part of “The Impact of Covid-19 on Artists” by Anna McNay for Studio International Magazine, April 2020 (UK)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by SENSORIUM for their first edition of their “Stockpiling Food for Thought” series, March 2020 (Slovakia).
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed “CHÉRIE, DES ATOMES, FAIS CE QUE TU VEUX” in Mouvement Art Magazine, March-April 2020 (France).
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by TONGUES, March 2020 (UK/Germany).
Anna Dumitriu’s work is featured in the article Viewing Science and Society Through Art by Christine Byrd about the Beall Center for Art and Technology at University of California Irvine in Connect: UCI Claire Trevor School of Arts Winter 2020 News. January 2020 (USA).
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” was featured in “When Water Speaks” by Nikita Puri, a review of “Submerge at the Science Gallery Bengaluru, in Business Standard. January 2020 (India)
2019
Anna Dumitriu’s Antibiotic Resistance Quilt is featured in Apocalyptic Visions: How do these Artists and Designers face the impending future of the Climate Crisis and other Global Disasters? by Lyndsey Walsh on UNBORE. November 2019 (Netherlands).
Anna Dumitriu’s Super-organism: The Living Microbiome is featured in Art focus: How to have a Relationship with your Microbiome by Gabriele Sankalaite on UNBORE. October 2019 (Netherlands).
Anna Dumitriu gave an interview for Ugly Duck as a precursor to the Intelligent Machinery exhibition and symposium in London. September 2019 (UK).
The curated group exhibition “A World Unseen” at The David J. Sencer CDC Museum in Atlanta Georgia, USA was featured by ArtFix Daily in No Hazmat Suit Needed to Marvel at the CDC Museum’s ‘The World Unseen’ Art Exhibition, June 2019 (USA).
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Le Journal Des Arts in Le Bioart, une éthique de la transgression? on her Make Do and Mend and Trust Me, I’m an Artist by Stephanie Lemoine, issue n°526 , 21st June 2019 (France).
Anna Dumitriu’s exhibition “BioArt and Bacteria” at Eden Project in Cornwall received an excellent review in the Falmouth Packet Newspaper Eden Project hosts bacteria filled art exhibition by Emma Ferguson, April 2019 (UK).
Anna Dumitriu’s participation in Superbugs: The Fight for Our Lives at the Science Museum in London was featured by Susan Fourtané in Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Are Winning the Fight, How Can Science Fight Back? on Interesting Engineering, March 2019 (International).
Ivaana Muse has written an extensive blog post Anna Dumitriu: Pioneering bio-artist and expressionist explorer of abstraction through representation on the work of Anna Dumitriu in relation to Dumitriu’s chapter in The STEAM Revolution (USA), March 2019.
2018
Review of BioArt and Bacteria at the Esther Klein Gallery in Philadelphia by Cindy Stockton-Moore on the Flying Slippers Blog, (USA), November 2018.
Review of BioArt and Bacteria at the Esther Klein Gallery in Philadelphia Anna Dumitriu’s BioArt and Bacteria Exhibition Fuses Microbes with Art: Her work is a haunted reflection on how humankind has dealt with diseases throughout the eras by Christina Lu in 34th Street Magazine, (USA), November 2018.
The Japanese magazine Axis featured ArchaeaBot and an interview with the artists in their Report on the Ars Electronica Festival 2018, (Japan), November 2018.
Utrecht Central featured the presentation of ArchaeaBot in A World Without Us in an article New IMPAKT in Utrecht, (Netherlands), November 2018.
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Pier Luigi Capucci as part of the Five Words for the Future project which aims to help people to imagine the future. identify and understand what’s new and the latest innovations. Watch the video below, October 2018.
Digicult has published An Engagement with Bacteria: An Interview with Anna Dumitriu by Donata Marletta in English and Italian (Italy), October 2018.
El Comercio featured the opening event of the exhibition ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form at LABoral in Spain (Spain), September 2018.
Postinterface featured the article Spain. Artists create artificially intelligent underwater robots based on ancient life at LABoral (Italy), September 2018.
Anna Dumitriu’s solo exhibition From The Field is previewed in ON VIEW: From The Field by Anna Dumitriu by Julia Buntaine on SciArt Magazine (USA), August 2018.
Anna Dumitriu’s solo exhibition From The Field is reviewed in the article Linen and Bacteria: The Hidden History of Microbiology by Clara Rodríguez Fernández on Labiotech (EU), August 2018.
Engineered Antibody was featured in Proto Magazine: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Medicine published by Massachusetts General Hospital (USA), Summer 2018.
The Antibiotic Resistance Quilt was featured in an article called Bed Bugs in Quilters Companion Magazine Vol.17, No. 2 (Australia), May 2018.
Engineered Antibody by Anna Dumitriu was pictured in Artforum International Art Journal (USA) in the article Baroque Technopatriarchy by Paul B. Preciado, January 2018.
2017
Review of the Non Human Agents Conference at Art Laboratory Berlin with details of Anna Dumitriu’s talk by Clara Rodríguez Fernández on Science and Art Join Forces to Challenge our Anthropocentric Worldviews on Labiotech (EU), December 2017.
Blog post review of Make Do and Mend in the BioArt and Bacteria exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science Genome editing: Invisible mending by Brigitte Nerlich (Professor of Science Language and Society at the University of Nottingham) on Making Science Public (UK), December 2017.
Review of In Case of Emergency at the Science Gallery Dublin featuring The Antibiotic Resistance Quilt by Clara Rodríguez Fernández The End is Nigh — Will Biology Doom Us or Save Us? on Labiotech (EU), November 2017.
Exhibition review of Superbugs: The Fight For Our Life at the Science Museum by Rebecca Wallersteiner on The Hippocratic Post (UK), November 2017.
Article BioArt: L’Art Issu Du Labo, published in French by Technion France (France/Israel), October 2017.
Exhibition review featuring The Antibiotic Resistance Quilt In Case of Emergency, here are the best shows to see this week by Aidan Dunne in The Irish Times (Eire), October 2017.
Exhibition review featuring The Antibiotic Resistance Quilt Doom and downfall at the Science Gallery by Michael Foley in The Trinity News (Eire), October 2017.
Exhibition review featuring The Antibiotic Resistance Quilt Watch the World End with the Science Gallery by Ciara Haley in The University Times (Eire), October 2017.
Exhibition review Review of Anna Dumitriu’s solo exhibition “BioArt and Bacteria” at The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford Bacteria and artwork combine in new exhibition by Marc Evans in the Oxford Mail (UK), October 2017.
Interview with Anna Dumitriu about her work Bacterial BioArt by Giuseppe Saija for Youris/FEAT, October 2017.
Interview with Anna Dumitriu about her FEAT residency Sharing stories from the world of bacteria by Giuseppe Saija for Youris/FEAT, October 2017.
Preview of Anna Dumitriu: BioArt and Bacteria in Art Quarterly (UK), September 2017.
Article by Clara Rodríguez Fernández BioArt and Bacteria Exhibition is Coming to Oxford (EU), September 2017.
Article on the University of Birmingham, School of Chemistry website Birmingham chemist collaborates with renowned bioartist for new installation exploring the chemical nature of DNA(UK), September 2017.
Blog post by Erich Prem about the FEAT project for Ars Electronica FEAT: Arts and Technologies of the Future (Austria), July 2017.
Interview with Anna Dumitriu by Richard Bright in Interalia Magazine, Make Do and Mend and CRISPR gene editing (UK) July 2017.
Review of the Trust Me, I’m an Artist exhibition at Zone2Source in Amsterdam by Julia Buntaine, featuring Controlled Commodity on SciArt Magazine Blog, (USA) July 2017.
Review of the Future Emerging Art and Technology exhibition at LifeSpace Dundee by Julia Buntaine, featuring Make Do & Mend on SciArt Magazine Blog, (USA), June 2017.
Review of the Trust Me, I’m an Artist exhibition at Zone2Source in Amsterdam, Regine Debatty for We Make Money Not Art, (FR), June 2017.
Review of the Trust Me, I’m an Artist exhibition at Zone2Source in Amsterdam, featuring Controlled Commodity in the article Waarschuwing aan de wetenschap in the major Amsterdam daily newspaper Het Parool (NL), June 2017.
Review of the Trust Me, I’m an Artist exhibition at Zone2Source in Amsterdam by Nora Vaage, featuring Controlled Commodity on Furtherfield.org (UK), May 2017.
Article about Dumitriu’s Make Do and Mend project by Clara Rodríguez Fernández Trust me, I’m an Artist Explores the Ethics of Biotech in Amsterdam, Labiotech (EU), May 2017.
Article about Dumitriu’s Make Do and Mend project by Clara Rodríguez Fernández Art Made with CRISPR Aims to Raise Awareness of Antibiotic Resistance, Labiotech (EU), April 2017.
2016
Featured in article by Emily Sharpe in The Art Newspaper Frieze London Edition Fluorescent rabbits, slime mould and bacteria: artists get biological (UK), October 2016.
Interview by Julia Krolik in Art The Science (CA), CREATORS – ANNA DUMITRIU, October 2016.
Article by Emiliy Driscoll in The Mancunion Newspaper (UK) Science vs. Art: Science and art come together in new BioArt, October 2016.
Article by Naomi Herring in The Oxford Mail (UK) Stories of antibiotics bring patients and scientists together in one-day workshop. June 2016.
Essay by Emma Jane O’Sullivan on Freak Atoms (UK) Bridging the gulf: the new era of art/science collaborations, May 2016.
Article by Claire Braun for Labiotech (Germany) BioArt: Infective Textiles, Synthetic Evolution and the ‘Romantic Disease, March 2016.
Article by Jens Hauser (co-curator WETWARE) for Copenhagen University Post (Denmark) A New Alchemy – Biotechnology as Art, February 2016.
Two separate articles by Alex Chan for the LA Times (USA), Art and biology mix at new UC Irvine exhibit and The art is alive at UC Irvine Exhibit featuring interviews with Anna Dumitriu, February 2016.
Profile on Infection Control Tips (Canada/Global) The Amazing World of Anna Dumitriu, January 2016.
2015
Interview with Neža Mrevlje on Planet Siol (in Slovenian), December 2015.
Interview Bakterie jako umělecký materiál (Czech Republic) for online.muni.cz (in Czech), December 2015.
Interview by Anna McNay for Studio International (UK) “Bacteria are living organisms that you can work with – almost in a painterly kind of way”, September 2015.
Interview by Jane Liu for Make + Shanghai (in Chinese), August 2015.
Article by Dr James Price Using Art to Improve Public Knowledge of MRSA in the Royal College of Pathologists Magazine, July 2015.
Article by Paul Squires for Imperica (UK), “Dirty Eden: human bacteria goes on show”, July 2015.
Article by Richard Bright for Interalia Magazine (UK), “Anna Dumitriu at Invisible You – The Human Microbiome”, June 2015.
Article in The Observer on Sunday (UK national newspaper) “Faecal transplants and bio-art … Eden Project’s latest exhibition explores the science of microbes”, May 2015.
2014
Profile by Guillaume Robin on Revue Combine (France), “Contaminer le vivant // Contaminate the living”, December 2014.
Feature on Adafruit (USA), “Anna Dumitriu Uses Bacteria, Textiles, and Projection Mapping to Illustrate Microbiological Quorum Sensing”, November 2014
Interview with Margaret Cooter in The BMJ (UK), “At the Edge of The Quilt: Colour Me Unusual”, October 2014 (republished from “Through Our Hands Magazine”.
Inteview with Alexandra Nistoroiu in Viaţa Medicală ((Romania) “Din bube, mucigaiuri și noroi”, October 2014.
Interview with Margaret Cooter in Through Our Hands Magazine (UK), “At the Edge of The Quilt: Colour Me Unusual”, September 2014
Feature by Anna Dumitriu in Artlink Magazine (Aus), The challenges and rewards of working with bacteria as an artistic medium in Bio Art: Life in the Anthropocene”, September 2014.
Interview by Lula Criado on Clot Magazine (UK), August 2014.
Interview by Richard Bright for Interalia Magazine (UK), Blurring Boundaries, July 2014.
Blog Post for The Picasso Museum in Barcelona about Dumitriu’s “Genius Germ” installation exhibited there, June 2014.
Article by on Ismap (France), Anna Dumitriu, la styliste aux bactéries, June 2014.
Article by Raluca Grințescu in Revista Taifasuri (Romania), Rochii Cu Microbi Fatali, May 2014.
Live TV interview on BBC Global World News with Tim Willcox, January 2014.
Interview by Jospeh Stromberg for The Smithsonian Magazine (Washington, USA) “An Artist Dyes Clothes and Quilts With Tuberculosis and Staph Bacteria”, March 2014.
Article by Carey Dunne for Co-Design (part of Fast Company) (New York, (USA) “Artist Incorporates Deadly Bacteria Into Latest Show”, March 2014.
Article by Ellyn Ruddick-Sunstein on Beautiful Decay (New York, USA) “Unnerving Artworks Created With Deadly Disease-Causing Bacteria”, March 2014
Article featuring work by Anna Dumitriu by Vivian Xu in Art Bank (China) “Synthetic Times”, March 2014.
Article by John Squires on Fear.net (USA) “Anna Dumitriu Infuses Real Bacteria into Her Thought-Provoking Art”, March 2014
Article by Faiza Peeran in Impact Magazine (UK) “The Art of Science”, March 2014.
Interview by Michaela Nettell on a-n magazine (UK) “The practice of microbiology feels very like making art”, February 2014.
Article by Laura Barnett in The Guardian (UK) “Art in good health: how science and culture mix the best medicine”, January 2014.
Article by Nicole Petit for SparkedScienceArt (USA) “Tuberculosis takes center stage in U.K. art-science exhibition”, January 2014.
Interview by Elyse Franko for The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (Washington DC, USA) “How Sublime is your Ecosystem?; An Interview with Bioartist Anna Dumitriu”, January 2014.
Interview by Robert Cumber for Get West London (UK) “Deadly disease inspires new exhibition at Watermans in Brentford”, January 2014.
Profile by Culture24 (UK) “Can art help improve our understanding of Tuberculosis? Anna Dumitriu’s new exhibition offers symbiosis”, January 2014.
Profile by Digicult (Italy) “The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis at Watermans”, January 2014.
“How Sublime is Your Ecosystem?“: An Interview with Bioartist Anna Dumitriu by The Center For Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, Washington/New Dehli, (USA/India). January 2014.
2013
Profile by ArtLyst (UK) “An Artistic Inverstigation of Tuberculosis”, December 2013.
Interview by the Institute of Art and Ideas (UK) “Art, Science and the Sublime: 3 questions with Anna Dumitriu”, December 2013.
Profile by TreeHugger (Canada/USA) “Artist infects dresses with ‘superbug’ bacteria to tell a lethal story” by Kimberley Mok, December 2013.
Interview by Le Huffington Post (France and Canada) “Une créatrice utilise des bactéries pour créer des vêtements” by Wendy Bracat, November 2013.
Profile by i09 “Bio-artist colors textiles with deadly bacteria and antibiotics”, November 2013.
Profile by Ecouterre (USA), “Anna Dumitriu Embroiders Deadly Bacteria and Antibiotics IntoTextiles”, November 2013.
Interview by Sydney Brownstone for Fast Co-exist (NY, USA) “Stitching Real Superbugs Into Clothing, To Infect You With Knowledge”, October 2013.
Interview by Madhumita Venkataramanan for New Scientist (UK) “Cosy Quilts Made of Killer Superbugs”, October 2013.
Profile in Wired UK Magazine plus video made for iPad edition, June 2013.
Featured in Art Press 2 “Resurgence du Reel, Tissage, Crochet, Broderie dans l’Art de l’Anthropocene” (France) by Annick Bureaud, May 2013.
Article for The Huffington Post “Wonder and Terror in Art and Science” by Anna Dumitriu, 25th May 2013.
Technoetic Arts Volume 11, Issue 1 Paper: “Cybernetic Bacteria 2.0: Investigating The Sublime in Bacterial and Digital Communication”, March 2013.
Interview for 4Humanties (USA) by Eva Kekou, 18th January 2013.
2012
Interview for Imperica: Anna Dumitriu: Dirty Work, UK, 31st December 2012.
Interview for Imperica: Golden Decayed, 5th September 2011.
Selected Journal Publications and Contributions to Conference Proceedings by Anna Dumitriu
2022
Anna Dumitriu and Alex May co-authored “Fermenting Futures: An Artistic Exploration of Yeast Biotechnology” for Fermenting Futures: An Artistic Exploration of Yeast Biotechnology” for Leonardo Journal 2022; Volume 55 (Issue 6): 592–598. Published by MIT Press, December 2022 (USA)
A paper “Unruly objects: NFTs, blockchain technologies and bio-conservation” by Anna Dumitriu, Alex May, Athanasios Velios, Zoi Sakki, Veroniki Korakidou, Hélia Marçal and Gerogios Panagiaris was published in September 2022 by Technoetic Arts Volume 19, Number 3 (UK).
Anna Dumitriu wrote the chapter “Hypersymbiotics™: An Artistic Reflection on the Ethical and Environmental Implications of Microbiome Research and New Technologies” in The Microbiome and its Challenges for the Environmental Humanities. Endeavour 46, 2022, Bossert, L. and Höll, D. (ed.). (Netherlands).
Anna Dumitriu wrote the chapter “Cyberspecies Proximity” in “HumaniTies and Artificial Intelligence” published by the European Union, June 2022, (Italy)
2021
Anna Dumitriu co-authored a paper entitled “Fermenting Futures: an artistic view on yeast biotechnology” for FEMS (Federation of European Microbiology Societies) Yeast Research. August 2021 (Netherlands)
Anna Dumitriu co-authored a paper entitled ” ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” in the the Proceedings of the ALIFE 2021 International Conference on Artificial Life published by MIT Press. July 2021 (USA).
2020
Anna Dumitriu is a co-author on a paper entitled Setting the agenda for social science research on the human microbiome published by Palgrave Communications. January 2020 (online).
2019
Anna Dumitriu wrote the article Contemporary Relics: Threads Across Time in Bio Art for Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. Summer 2019 (Global).
Paper by Anna Dumitriu and Dr Rob Neely An Alchemy of DNA: Exploring the Chemistry of Biology Through BioArt for Leonardo Journal doi: 10.1162/leon_a_01790, published on just the accepted page, hosted by MIT Press on 31st May 2019 (USA).
Paper by Anna Dumitriu and Dr Sara Goldberg Make Do and Mend: Exploring Gene Regulation and CRISPR through a FEAT (Future Emerging Art and Technology) Residency with the MRG-Grammar Project for Leonardo Journal doi: 10.1162/LEON_a_01466, (USA) published on the just accepted page, hosted by MIT Press on 20 June 2017 and in the Leonardo print journal, Vol. 52, Issue 1, (download here) (USA), February 2019.
2018
A peer-reviewed paper Bacteria on display- can we, and should we? Artistically exploring the ethics of public engagement with science in Microbiology by Dr Nicola Fawcett and Anna Dumitriu was recently accepted for publication by FEMS Microbiology Letters journal by Oxford University Press (UK), May 2018. The paper was identified as one of the top 10 highest Altmetric scores of all papers published in the journal in 2018.
2017
Article by Anna Dumitriu in the Journal of Interactive Media special edition “Mendel 2.0, Mendel’s Legacy: Exploring Bacterial Genomics Through Art (Czech), July 2017.
Article by Anna Dumitriu Trust Me, I’m an Artist: Building Opportunities for Art & Science Collaboration through an Understanding of Ethics for Leonardo Journal, published on just accepted page, hosted by MIT Press doi: 10.1162/LEON_a_01481, (USA), on 20 June 2017.
Article by Anna Dumitriu in Microbiologist Magazine Controlled Commodities: An Artists Obsession with Microbiology, Vol 18, No. 2, (UK), June 2017.
2011
ISEA Istanbul 2011 Proceedings includes 4 papers by Anna Dumitriu: “Communicating Bacteria”, “Biosensing and Networked Performance”, “The Institute of Unnecessary Research”, “The Emergence of Consciousness”.
Leonardo Print Journal Cybernetic Bacteria 2.0, Volume 44, Issue 3, 2011. (also published in ISEA Ruhr 2010 Proceedings 2010).
2010
Leonardo Print Journal “KryoLab” Volume 43, Issue 5, 2010.
Leonardo Print Journal Enactive Dialectics, Volume 43, Issue 5, 2010.
Selected Journal Publications by others
2023
Anna Dumitriu’s work is discussed in “Bridging the gap with bacterial art” by Eve Frankel, Jasmine Temple, Eliz Dikener, and Mehmet Berkmen in FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2023, 370, 1–10, April 2023 (UK)
2021
Anna Dumitriu’s work is described by Catherine Voison in her article “L’art biotechnologique : un art contaminé par la microbiologie” in Ligeia 2021 / 2-3-4 (N ° 189-191), October 2021 (France)
Anna Dumitriu’s artwork was described by Armida De La Garza in her paper “STEAM at Work: “Translating” Science into Dress” in the journal TEXTILE, published by Taylor and Francis Online, September 2021 (UK)
2020
The “Super-organism series” by Anna Dumitriu and Alex May was featured on the cover of the Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Volume 16, 2020, Issue 3: Special Themed Section: The Zoom Function. Guest Editors: James R. Ball III, Weiling He, Louis G. Tassinary and in the editorial: “The Zoom Function“, December 2020 (UK)
Anna Dumitriu’s work “The Plague Dress” is discussed in “The Contagion of Everyday Life” by Jeanette Cooperman in The Common Reader – The Journal of the Essay, published by Washington University in St Louis, April 2020 (USA)
2019
Anna Dumitriu’s projects “The Romantic Disease” and “ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” in “NON-HUMAN ACTORS IN THEIR “STRONGLY POSSIBLE WORLDS”. CONSTRUCTIONS OF ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSES IN BIO ART PROJECTS” by Ewelina Twardoch-Raś, in Cultural Studies Review 2019 Number 2 (40), November 2019 (Poland)
Anna Dumitriu’s work The Most Profound Mystery was used on the cover of Dental Update Volume 46, Issue 10, 2nd November 2019 (UK).
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Anthony King for Bio-art: A fusion of biology and art both raises awareness of and challenges science which features an image of Plague Dress in EMBO Reports Journal, July 2019 (USA).
Cover image for the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 25, Issue 1, and article Repurpose and Reuse: Artistic Perspectives on Antimicrobial Resistance by Bryron Breedlove (USA), January 2019.
The CRISPR Journal (Volume 1, Issue 5) featured Make Do and Mend and the BioArt and Bacteria exhibition in CRISPR Gene Editing Meets the Art World: A New Exhibition Including Perhaps the First Application of CRISPR Gene Editing Technology in BioArt is Coming to America by Professor Miguel Ángel Medina of University of Málaga, (USA), October 2018.
A review of Dumitriu’s solo exhibition BioArt and Bacteria at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford BioArt: materials and molecules by Kelley Swain was published in The Lancet (UK), March 2018.
Engineered Antibody by Anna Dumitriu was pictured in Artforum International Art Journal (USA) in the article Baroque Technopatriarchy by Paul B. Preciado, January 2018.
Interview with Anna Dumitriu and Dr Robert K Neely about their collaboration Artistic inspiration: how a chemist and an artist are learning from each other by Rachel Brazil in Chemistry World – the magazine of the Royal Chemistry Society, January 2018.
2017
Review of In Case of Emergency at the Science Gallery Dublin featuring The Antibiotic Resistance Quilt entitled The Disaster Artists by Desmond O’Neill in The Lancet (UK), December 2017.
A critical reflection of Make Do and Mend written by Annick Bureaud was published on Leonardo Olats (France), December 2017.
Article about the Wetware exhibition ”Art and Agency in Times of Wetware“ published in French and English by Jens Hauser in Stream 4 magazine (France), November 2017.
Exhibition review of Superbugs: The Fight For Our Life at the Science Museum by Claudio Nunes-Alves in Educated Microbes on Nature microbiology (International), November 2017.
Exhibition review featuring The Antibiotic Resistance Quilt, Disaster preparedness: Risk, rout and ruination by Anthony King in Nature (International), October 2017.
Extensive academic exhibition review of Anna Dumitriu’s solo exhibition BioArt and Bacteria at The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford by Charissa N. Terranova in Leonardo (USA), October 2017.
Cover story, article and interview by Joe Ferguson in SciArt Magazine (USA) The revealing works of Anna Dumitriu and Alex May, June 2016.
Paper by Anna Dumitriu, Annick Buread and Bobbie Farsides Trust me, I’m an artist, Leonardo Journal (print version) (USA) June 2016.
A paper authored by Anna Dumitriu in Technoetic Arts Journal (UK) Art as a meta-discipline: Ethically exploring the frontiers of science and biotechnology, May 2016.
2015
Mention in paper on Bioart in Trends in Biotechnology, in the Pioneers, Programs, and Initiatives at the Intersection of Biology and Art timeline section, published in December 2015.
2014
Article by Colin Martin in The Lancet (UK) “Interweaving the culture and science of tuberculosis”, March 2014.
2007
n.paradoxa International Art Journal “Normal Flora and the Bacterial Sublime: An Interview with Anna Dumitriu”, n.paradoxa, vol. 20: Translate/Narrate (July 2007): 5-12 Interview by Alexandra Kokoli.
Selected Television, Radio and Podcast Appearances
2024
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Larry Budd for the “Welcome to Leeds” Podcast, March 2024 (UK)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Aga Pokrywka for Ferment Radio #41: Making the Invisible Visible with Anna Dumitriu (also available on Youtube), February 2024 (Europe)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed on BBC Radio Leeds for Rina Ahmed’s Breakfast Show about her exhibition “Fragile Microbiomes” February 2024 (UK)
“Anna Dumitriu: Combining Biology, Art and Research” was featured on the podcast series STARTS: Bringing the Boundary between STEM and the Arts created by USA-based teenage twins Jaanak and Jaagat Prashar. Read more about their fascinating journey on Forbes. (NB this is a USA-based podcast unconnected to the EU STARTS Programme that Dumitriu also works with), February 2024 (USA)
2023
Anna Dumitriu’s exhibition “BioArt Revolution” was featured numerous times in “The Closing Ceremony of Timisoara 2023 European Capital of Culture” on TVR (Romanian National TV), December 2023
“BioArt Revolution” was featured in “Art leads the way for revolutionary plastic” on Science ORF 2 (Austrian National TV) November 2023.
“BioArt Revolution” was featured on TVR (Romanian National TV) September 2023.
Spazju Kreattiv Podcast Episode 3 presents “BioArt Alchemy” Anna Dumitriu in conversation with Edward Duca (Malta) August 2023. Listen here.
BioArtivism presents its fourth episode interview with visual artist Anna Dumitriu. Delve into the fascinating world of BioArt as we explore Anna’s groundbreaking work, which merges microbiology, infectious diseases, robotics, artificial life, and digital technology to challenge societal perceptions and ethics. Through intimate conversations, gain insights into Anna’s creative process, her inspirations, and how she navigates the intersection of art and biology. (International) July 2023. Listen here.
2022
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Elizabeth Zhikova and Farah Piriye in “Anna Dumitriu: BioArt in a Technoscience Age” for ZEITGEIST19 Podcast (Italy), 18th November 2022.
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Graham Dane for Art Matters on Out North Radio in Alaska (USA), 9th July 2022.
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Don Lee in “The Surprising Value of Unnecessary Research with Anna Dumitriu” for the TIPS (The Infection Prevention Strategy) Deep Dive Interview Podcast Series (USA/Canada) 20th May 2022.
The exhibition “Wunderkammer BioArt” was featured in a radio interview on hr2 Kultur (Germany) entitled “Understanding Biology Through Art” with art critic Stefanie Blumenbecker on 8th April 2022.
The exhibition “Wunderkammer BioArt” was featured on RTL 1 Television Evening News (Germany), 6th April 2022.
“Fermenting Futures” was featured on ORF 1 Radio (the main Austrian Radio station) in “Processes for the Future” on 7th March 2022.
2021
“Fermenting Futures” was featured on ORF 1 (the main Austrian TV station) on “Mayrs Magazine – Knowledge for Everyone” on 15th October 2021.
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed about her arts work dealing with issues around antimicrobial resistance for episode 32 of the AMR Studio Podcast by Uppsala Antibiotic Center, 6th September 2021 (Sweden)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed about her winning entry in the ECCMID Art Gallery on ECCMID TV as part of the European Conference on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases on 10th July 2021 (Austria)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by for episode 8 of the HOLOBIONT Podcast (9th July 2021 edition) on “BioArt, Beauty and The Bacterial Sublime” (UK)
Anna Dumitriu’s work will be featured on “A Arte da Cura” (The Art of Healing) in a new series for the Portuguese national television channel RTP2 in Autumn 2021.
“Ex Voto” was featured on “Nu te Zien!” on the Dutch national TV channel NPO 2 (Netherlands) on 3rd April 2021 as part of a tour of “De Pest” at Museum Het Valkof in Nijmegen by Ann Demeester director of the Frans Hals Museum.
2020
Anna Dumitriu was video interviewed by Ivaana Muse for the Cambridge Creation Lab Vlog about her project “Shielding“, December 2020 (USA).
Anna Dumitriu and Alex May were interviewed by Mihaela Ghita for Romanian Cultural Radio for “Dimensiunea științifică a artei: ArchaeaBot – o formă de viață postapocaliptică“, December 2020 (Romania)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed for the Always Possible Podcast “After Corona? – VISUAL ARTS“. November 2020 (UK)
Anna Dumitriu was featured in a television interview about her work on TRACKS on Arte TV. July 2020 (France/Germany/Europe)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed about her work by Ivaana Muse for the Cambridge Creation Lab Podcast, July 2020 (USA).
Anna Dumitriu discussed her work in “Spinning Yarns: Pathology and Poetry” for The Art + Science Reading Group, a virtual gathering of thinkers, researchers and the incurably curious. Organised Amelia McConville and Autumn Brown and supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub. Available as a podcast, May 2020 (Eire).
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Laura Elidedt Rodríguez for the SciArt Talks podcast by the St Petersburg Art and Science Center. May 2020 (Russia)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed by Professor Victoria Vesna in Episode 9 of the UCLA ART|SCI PARTICLES series. PARTICLES is an online series of short interviews with key artists and thinkers in response to the novel Coronavirus and its unfolding. May 2020 (USA)
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed on Dimensiunea științifică a artei by Mihaela Ghiță for Romanian Cultural Radio on “La ce sunt bune virusurile?” and “Violența domestică în perioadele de carantină“, March 2020 (Romania)
Ex Voto and the MRSA Quilt were featured on the internationally syndicated BBC 2 Programme QI, on the the Episode “Quills” (Q13), January 2020. (UK)
2019
Anna Dumitriu’s Hypersymbiont Dress was featured on Spanish television channel RTVE’s art show “Metropolis” as part of review of the Steirischer Herbst 2019 Festival: Grand Hotel Abyss (see section at 26:40). October 2019 (Austria/Spain).
The State of Things show on WUNC North Carolina Public Radio featured an interview with Anna Dumitriu for the show Embodied: The Science And Art Of Your Gut alongside scientific experts. The show is available to listen to on a podcast. August 2019 (USA).
2018
Asturian Regional Television reported the opening of the ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form at LABoral in Spain on their lunchtime news show and interviewed the artists Anna Dumitriu and Alex May (Spain), September 2018.
2017
Interview about Trust Me, I’m an Artist and Controlled Commodity (produced as part of the FEAT project) on Dutch National Radio 1 (in Dutch) May 2017.
Interview “Bacteria sublimă – Interviu cu Anna Dumitriu” (The Bacterial Sublime – An Interview with Anna Dumitriu, Romanian Cultural Radio (in Romanian) February 2017.
2015
Interview on BBC Radio 4 Inside Science with Adam Rutherford, May 2015.
Podcast for Guardian Science “How will automation transform our lives?”, March 2015.
Interview for BBC 4Tech Television (Arab World Service), March 2015.
2014
TV Interview on “Tres14” Spanish National Television Channel 2, “Bacterias”, November 2014 (see image of Dumitriu being interviewed at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona above).
Anna Dumitriu was interviewed live on BBC World News in May 2014.