Cacti Garden
”Endless Forms Most Beautiful” is a cactus garden installed on the grounds of the ASU campus. “Genetic mutations can create new and sometimes beautiful forms of life, like the crested cacti featured in this garden. Cells in these crested cacti get mutations during...
Remembrance Tree
“Remembrance Tree” is a social practice art experience where visitors can write the names of people they know who have been impacted by cancer and add them to Endless Forms Most Beautiful, our somatically mutated cactus garden. These metal plant identification tags...
Mimicking Cancer with Music
While the science behind cancer is complex, the essence of the disease can be elegantly expressed as music. Like musicians in a group, working together to produce a piece of music, different cells in our body work together to produce a living, breathing person. When...
In Search of Chemozoa
“In Search of Chemozoa” is a multichannel video installation, commissioned and funded by the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, presenting an imaginary in silico model organism called Chemozoa. Created by British artists Vicky Isley and Paul Smith, known as...
Ceramics
Sculpture explores the nature of cancer ASU mixed media ceramics professor Susan Beiner is in residence in the Aktipis and Maley labs, as well as the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center. She is exploring the nature of cancer and developing plans for a ceramics piece that...
