Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg interviewed by BBC Future

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, AA tutor of In Other Worlds (Diploma 12), has been interviewed by BBC Future discussing her artistic practice and asking ‘can humans really make the world better?’ In the interview, Ginsberg questions the emphasis on progress in society when ‘progress’ so often brings with it the destruction of habitats and the extinction of species. Ginsberg reflected that ‘when we talk about making a better world, or progressing ourselves, we have to progress our environment, and for me that means maintaining it and looking after it.’

She discussed her 2019 work ‘The Substitute’, an artificially intelligent video installation that virtually resurrected the last male northern white rhinoceros that scientists are trying to save from extinction using IVF technology.

‘In my work as an artist in the studio, we work with a lot of emerging technologies, but to think about our relationship to nature, which seems a bit odd, but researching synthetic biology or genetic engineering or artificial intelligence is a way to think about what it means for humans to design living things and what it means to be a living thing.’