"Sensing Change" 2025 | Art Switch & Transparent Eyeball Panel at BioBAT Art Space | New York

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This event is part of Sensing Change, a NYC citywide festival presented by Art Switch Foundation and Transparent Eyeball.

At BioBAT Art Space, we enter the botanical and fungal worlds — territories where life listens, responds, and reconfigures itself. How do plants and mushrooms perceive rhythm and disturbance? How do they adapt, regenerate, and signal transformation? And how might we, as humans, learn to sense the pulse of the more-than-human world that surrounds and inhabits us? Through architecture, music, science, and visual art, this event invites us to tune into the intelligence of living systems.

The afternoon opens with a panel discussion led by Remina Greenfield, featuring Elizabeth Hénaff, Mitchell Joachim, and Tarun Nayar, exploring intersections between biology, design, and technology. It continues with a live performance by Sabina Hyoju Ahn, who will present DIY Bionoise — an instrument that transforms the body’s own bio-signals into waves of sound and noise.

PANEL DISCUSSION: "Adaptive Bodies – Plant, Fungal, and Human Perceptions of Change"

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SPEAKERS

Dr. Elizabeth Hénaff (NYU) is a computational biologist with an art practice. Her academic trajectory started with a Bachelor's in Computer Science, followed by a Master’s in Plant Biology (both from UT Austin) and a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Barcelona.
At the center of her work is a fascination with the way living beings interact with their environment. This inquiry has produced a body of work that ranges from scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals to projects with landscape architects to working as an artist in environments from SVA to the MIT Media Lab. She has made contributions to understanding how plants respond to the force of gravity, how genome structure changes in response to stress, and most recently, has turned her attention to the ubiquitous and invisible microbial component of our environment.


Mitchell Joachim (Terreform ONE, NYU), PhD, Assoc. AIA is Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and Professor of Practice at NYU, where he also served as University Senator and Co-Chair of Global Design NYU. A TED Senior Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, he has worked with Frank Gehry, Moshe Safdie, and I.M. Pei, and received major honors including the NEA Grant for Arts Projects, AIA New York Urban Design Award, LafargeHolcim Prize, Architizer A+ Award, and Time Magazine Best Invention with MIT Smart Cities. Named in Rolling Stone’s “100 People Changing America” and Wired’s “Smart List,” his work has been exhibited internationally at MoMA, MASS MoCA, DAZ Berlin, and the Venice Biennale. He is the author of Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities and three other books, and has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Pratt, Cornell, and as the Frank Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto. Joachim holds degrees from MIT, Harvard, Columbia, and Buffalo.


Tarun Nayar (Modern Biology) is a musician and biologist whose ambient work bridges sound, ecology, and technology. Using modular and handmade synthesizers, he performs live with the bioelectric impulses of plants, mushrooms, and natural environments — translating the hidden vibrations of life into immersive, evolving soundscapes. Trained in Indian classical raga since childhood, he shapes his performances according to the time of day and season, tuning human perception to natural rhythms. His videos have reached over 100 million views and earned him more than a million followers, with features in The Guardian, LA Times, BBC, Vice, and DJ Mag. He has performed at Art Basel Miami, MOCA Los Angeles, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Through his Field Trip project, audiences gather in public spaces to forage and listen as the bioelectric signals of plants and fungi are transformed into music. In 2023, Modern Biology opened the Fungi Exhibition at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm.