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Berlin New Media Week

Berlin, Germany · Artist and speaker

Presenting the living-systems work: programmable laser light guiding the growth of slime mold and fungi. ROOT/CLOUD ↗

Conference on the Bund

Shanghai, China · Exhibiting artist

Showing Only Humans Can Coexist, on the coexistence of people, machines, and organisms.

Cambridge Science Carnival

Kendall/MIT Open Space, Cambridge, MA · funguylab booth

Grow with the Glow, a hands-on bio-art station.

BUGSS Science Slam

Baltimore Underground Science Space, Baltimore, MD · Presenter

Light-guided fungal growth and slime mold circuits.

WAIC, MANA Future of AI

Shanghai and Nanjing, China · Speaker

Talk: When Algorithms Begin to Cultivate.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025, Art Papers

Hong Kong · Presenter

Participatory Evolution of Artificial Life Systems via Semantic Feedback.

UIST 2025 Honorable Mention

Busan, Republic of Korea · Award

Ori-TENG received an Honorable Mention at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.

Wearables Workshop, University of Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan · Co-organizer

Hosting Dr. Ryo Takahashi on long-term full-body wearables powered by wireless electronic textiles.

reEarth International Art Prize 2024

Auckland and Venice · Award

Two works recognised in the inaugural prize, from 1,341 artists across 35 countries. Mycelian took a Jury Choice Award, one of 30 selected; Dynamic Living took a Spotlight Selection. Shown at the Hillary Innovation Summit in Auckland and at Marco Polo Airport in Venice.

MassRobotics Innovation Hub

Boston, MA · Speaker

On emerging work across AI, robotics, and US–China collaboration.

Hazeltine Maker Grant

Brown University · Providence, RI

A competitive grant from Brown’s School of Engineering, presented by Prof. Barrett Hazeltine himself, funding the light-guided fungal printing work at the Brown Design Workshop.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, Art Papers

Tokyo, Japan · Presenter

Fungal morphology simulation and dynamic light containment with neural cellular automata.

Design in Service of Livelihoods

China Academy of Art, Hangzhou · Guest lecturer, mentor, co-organizer

A month-long workshop on design against community and economic constraints.

BioFabricate Global Summit

Online · Presenter

In conversation with Suzanne Lee about Mycelian and living materials.

Arts, Culture and Technology Seminar

MIT ACT Cube, Cambridge, MA · Invited presenter

Living materials and bio-computational art, with ACT co-director Gediminas Urbonas.