Cyrus Clarke

About

Cyrus Clarke is an award-winning designer, artist and technologist. He is founder of Grow Your Own Cloud; a research organization exploring the future of plant-based data storage through DNA data technology. Looking to science and the natural world for inspiration, he seeks to inspire technological developments that create more poetic, beautiful and regenerative futures.

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Projects

Urban Data Forest

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

Data Garden

Carbon negative data infrastructure powered by the world’s oldest storage device

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 combining energy futures, ethical decision making and environmental consequences

#sad

An empathetic AI that generates artistic works based on your emotions

Contact

Recognition

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

cyrusclarke@protonmail.com