Amy
M. Youngs creates biological art, interactive sculptures and digital media works that explore the complex relationship between technology and our changing concept of nature and self. 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 projects involving public web cams.
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 Tweed Museum in Duluth,
MN. She has published articles in Leonardo and Nouvel Objet
and her work was profiled in the book, Art
in Action, Nature, Creativity & our
Collective Future. She has lectured widely, at venues
such as the Australian Center For the Moving Image in Australia
and the Walker Art Center. She received her MFA from the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 and is currently
an Associate Professor of Art at the Ohio State University.