Ai Hasegawa 

Ai Hasegawa makes work about life — who gets to have it, who gets to make it, and who gets to end it.

Working across bioart, speculative design, and installation, she treats biological and technological systems as political ones: asking whose bodies they were built for, whose futures they imagine, and what forms of life they decide are worth protecting. Her subjects range from the human to the nonhuman, the living to the not-yet-alive — a gun trained on racial bias in policing, a woman carrying a dolphin to term, the scent of a life form that does not yet exist. She works from the position of someone the system was not built for. And she builds anyway.

Exhibited at MoMA, Mori Art Museum, the Smithsonian, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Ars Electronica, the XXII Triennale di Milano, FACT Liverpool, and MoCA Shanghai, among others. MA, Royal College of Art, Design Interactions (2012). MS, MIT Media Lab, Design Fiction Group (2016). Author of How to Be a Revolutionary in 20XX (BNN, 2020). Currently Professor at Yamanashi Prefectural University, Japan.