Cyrus Clarke

About

Cyrus Clarke is an award-winning designer and technologist working on physical AI at MIT Media Lab. He develops interfaces that engage scent, touch, and form, moving computation from the screen and into the world.

He is the founder of Grow Your Own Cloud, a research organisation pioneering DNA data storage, and is now developing HARD MODE, the community for builders at the intersection of hardware and AI. Drawing on nature as a model for what machines can be, he works toward futures that are more poetic, beautiful, and sensorially rich.

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Selected Work

The Anemoia Device

Scent-memory machine that distills analogue photographs into bespoke fragrances using generative-AI

Urban Data Forest

EU funded research Envisioning how DNA data storage technology could bring data and nature back to our cities

Interspecies Gossip

Developing novel biological interfaces for human interactions with the multispecies, created as part of the Ginkgo Bioworks Creative Residency

Data Garden

Storing and retrieving memories from the DNA of plants using DNA data storage technology

Bodies of Knowledge

Dancing with Machine Learning in a playable archive for BIO26 Design Biennial

Data Flower-Shop

Transforming a local flower-shop into a decentralised biological data-centre from the future

What the Block

Making Blockchain more human through an award-winning game based approach

Fusion Energy Futures

Interactive experience exploring the possible futures of Fusion energy based on EU research data, ethical decision making and planetary level consequences

#sad

An empathetic AI that generates creative works based on your emotions

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Contact

Speaking engagements

If you would like to speak to me about collaborations, work opportunities, workshop facilitation, or anything else please contact me at:

hi.cyrus@proton.me

For speaking engagements please contact Deborah Burns at Propela:

deborah@propela.co.uk

Cyrus Clarke

About

He is the founder of Grow Your Own Cloud, a research organisation pioneering DNA data storage, and is now developing HARD MODE, the community for builders at the intersection of hardware and AI. Drawing on nature as a model for what machines can be, he works toward futures that are more poetic, beautiful, and sensorially rich.