Amy
M. Youngs creates biological art, interactive sculptures and digital media works that explore relationships between technology and animals – human and non-human. Research interests include: interactions with plants and animals, technological nature follies, constructed ecosystems and seeing through the eyes of machines. She has created installations that amplify the sounds and movements of living worms, indoor ecosystems that grow edible plants, a multi-channel interactive video sculpture for a science museum, as well as videos and community media projects.
Youngs
has exhibited her works nationally and internationally
at venues such as the Te Papa Museum in New Zealand, the
Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre in Norway, the Biennale
of Electronic Arts in Australia, Centro Andaluz de Arte
Contemporáneo in Spain and the Peabody Essex Museum in
Salem, MA. She was
awarded an Ohio Arts Council grant for her work and has
published articles in Leonardo and Antennae. Her work
has been profiled in the books such as, Art in Action,
Nature, Creativity & our
Collective Future. She received her MFA from the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an Associate
Professor of Art at the Ohio State University, where she
teaches new media and eco art courses. ...more
in the artist statement.
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