The Algae Society

The Algae Society We are fascinated by algae as a species that all humans depend on. We collaborate with artists, designers, scientists, and makers.

Since 2018, the society has conducted research and exhibited in Europe, Australia, and North America.

Created by Jennifer Parker during an artist residency in Bodø, Norway, where the shifting wrack zone became both site an...
08/25/2025

Created by Jennifer Parker during an artist residency in Bodø, Norway, where the shifting wrack zone became both site and instrument. Using a hydrophone, contact mics, and an underwater camera, I recorded the subtle acoustics of seaweed beds, tidal surges, and the intertidal edge, a place where ocean and land continually converge. The camera served as a digital extension of perception, offering a way to see into the wrack zone’s submerged textures and fleeting movements....

Created by Jennifer Parker during an artist residency in Bodø, Norway, where the shifting wrack zone became both site and instrument. Using a hydrophone, contact mics, and an underwater camera, I r…

Bodø | Melbourne | Santa Cruz A collaboration with Fiona Hillary, Ellen Marie Sæthre-McGuirk, and Jennifer Parker for th...
12/02/2024

Bodø | Melbourne | Santa Cruz A collaboration with Fiona Hillary, Ellen Marie Sæthre-McGuirk, and Jennifer Parker for the 2023 International Conference Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges (DCAC), Interdisciplinary Creativity in Arts and Technology The distinct smell of salt, decay, and the ocean’s essence fills our nostrils, evoking memories of the ancient seas that birthed life. The touch of rough, weathered textures grounds us in the physicality of the wrack, reminding us of the transformative forces of time....

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Transformations, art, ecology and technology (2024) José Carlos Espinel & Jennifer Parker At the Municipal Museum of Gla...
12/02/2024

Transformations, art, ecology and technology (2024) José Carlos Espinel & Jennifer Parker At the Municipal Museum of Glass Art of Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain. This experimental project traces the relationships between nature and technology, form and possibility, inspired by flowing patterns of seaweed transformed through AI and molten glass, revealing new ways of thinking about adaptation and creation in a changing environment....

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Vida microscópica en el universo "From the Abyss to the Stars: Microscopic Life in the Universe
07/18/2023

Vida microscópica en el universo "From the Abyss to the Stars: Microscopic Life in the Universe

Vida microscópica en el universo “From the Abyss to the Stars: Microscopic Life in the Universe”

06/23/2023

Wheatgrass seeds are sown into a bed of agar agar, where their roots weave into strands of fiber optic cables. Agar agar is an algae-based growth medium that offers…

The Algae Society is honored to be featured in this season's issue of the Antennae journal of nature in visual culture, ...
12/03/2022

The Algae Society is honored to be featured in this season's issue of the Antennae journal of nature in visual culture, with a focus on Microbial Ecologies. A special thanks goes out to Ken Rinaldo for interviewing the Algae Society about our Confluence show at the Cameron Art Museum in early 2022 and to Giovanni Aloi for producing this amazing publication.
https://www.antennae.org.uk/?fbclid=IwAR07oJmtc1xseJDsUzxFvKXkDIaETuVEnlp8VASNPgWvqtMrhZ1sXqb3B98

Loving trees is easy, loving diatoms not to so much. At  less than 0.2 mm in size, and only visible to us through a lens, they remain hard to narrate and empathise with. And yet, they play indispensable roles. They feed marine animals, absorb carbon dioxide dissolved in the ocean from the atmospher...

11/23/2022

UCSC Arts and Digital Arts & New Media professor Jennifer Parker is the founding director of the OpenLab Collaborative Research Center at UC Santa Cruz, and co-founder of The Algae Society. Parker along with the Algae Society opened a new exhibit in Madrid titled MIKROS: Un Mundo Oculto.

UNA INSTALACIÓN ARTÍSTICA SOBRE EL MUNDO DE LAS ALGAS Y OTROS SERES PLANETARIO DE MADRIDDEL 8 DE NOVIEMBRE AL 31 DE ENER...
11/01/2022

UNA INSTALACIÓN ARTÍSTICA SOBRE EL MUNDO DE LAS ALGAS Y OTROS SERES PLANETARIO DE MADRIDDEL 8 DE NOVIEMBRE AL 31 DE ENERO DE 2023

UNA INSTALACIÓN ARTÍSTICA SOBRE EL MUNDO DE LAS ALGAS Y OTROS SERES PLANETARIO DE MADRIDDEL 8 DE NOVIEMBRE AL 31 DE ENERO DE 2023

Confluence Chapter 4:  Arts Education - The Algae Society @ The Cameron Art Museum - Spring 2022 - Video by Bradley S. P...
10/20/2022

Confluence Chapter 4: Arts Education - The Algae Society @ The Cameron Art Museum - Spring 2022 - Video by Bradley S. Pearce at UNCW

Cameron Art Museum Wilmington, North Carolina 2022 www.algaesociety.org Visitors of all ages are invited to get to know algae, from the microscopic scales of phytoplankton…

Confluence Chapter 3:  Artistic Collaboration - The Algae Society @ The Cameron Art Museum - Spring 2022 - Video by Brad...
10/19/2022

Confluence Chapter 3: Artistic Collaboration - The Algae Society @ The Cameron Art Museum - Spring 2022 - Video by Bradley S. Pearce at UNCW

Cameron Art Museum Wilmington, North Carolina 2022 www.algaesociety.org Visitors of all ages are invited to get to know algae, from the microscopic scales of phytoplankton…

Confluence Chapter 2:  Bio Art - The Algae Society @ The Cameron Art Museum - Spring 2022 - Video by Bradley S. Pearce a...
10/18/2022

Confluence Chapter 2: Bio Art - The Algae Society @ The Cameron Art Museum - Spring 2022 - Video by Bradley S. Pearce at UNCW

Cameron Art Museum Wilmington, North Carolina 2022 www.algaesociety.org Visitors of all ages are invited to get to know algae, from the microscopic scales of phytoplankton…

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