The Royal Institution in Australia (RiAus) supported the LIFE 2.0 art exhibition at the Science Exchange’s in Adelaide, Australia – which explored how our notions of nature and technology may need to change in an era in which we design hybrid and synthetic life forms and can rebuild nature from the ground up.

Curated by award-winning networked artist, writer and curator, Dr Melinda Rackham, LIFE 2.0 continues her research into the art forms emerging in networked, biological, virtual and architecturally embedded practices. Works by the new breed of UK bio-art designers – Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, James King and the Cambridge iGEM team, and Revital Cohen – join Richard Pell’s organisms of postnatural origin and Deborah Kelly’s seductive yet scary hybrid life forms.