Laura Olalde

LAURA OLALDE is a visual artist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Fine Arts, specializing in painting, and trained in mural painting. She earned a Master Degree in Electronic Arts and her thesis research was based on sci-art coproduction. Since 2011 she has incorporated bioart practices in her work. In 2012 she exhibited Quorum Sensing, an immersive experience with bioluminescent microorganisms. That year she received a production grant for her project Ophiodea, inspired by compound eyes in nature. It was exhibited at Ljudmila Medialab, Ljubljana, Slovenia, at Interactivos? ’12 workshop. Since 2013, she has been part of PROTEUS, a sciart collective formed with molecular biologists, awarded in 2015 for Introversion Dogmatica, a representation of the interaction between DNA and Histone proteins.