Kitchen and Ogasian in the Field Grey Island Merritt Island Florida USA Image Kitchen and Ogasian Photo by Jessina Leonard

Planetary Infrastructures Terrestrial Ecologies: Non-Formulaic Artistic Research

Authors: Shona Kitchen, University of Bolzano; Aly Ogasian, Scripps College

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Shona Kitchen

Kitchen (MA, Royal College of Art ’97) is an internationally recognized transdisciplinary artist, designer, researcher, and educator whose practice bridges art, science, and technology. Her work explores relationships between technology, nature, and human experience through poetic, research-driven collaborations with scientists, engineers, biologists, and wildlife experts, addressing social, ethical, and environmental impacts of emerging technologies. A founding partner of Kitchen Rogers Design (1997–2004), she has held roles at the Royal College of Art, CAV Aarhus, Stanford University, and RISD, where she chaired the Digital + Media MA (2014–2024) and founded the Techlands Research Studio. In 2024 she became Full Professor at the Free University of Bolzano and later Vice Dean of Research.

Aly Ogasian

Aly Ogasian is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her practice is research driven and typically site responsive, sparking conversations about everyday life and survival in a rapidly changing environment. Recent projects critique notions of expedition in the 21st century and play with the idea of an island as a metaphor, exploring notions of adaptation and survival, community and individualism, terrestrial and extraterrestrial, nature and technology. She has two separate longstanding collaborative practices with artist, designer and educator Shona Kitchen and artist and educator Claudia O'stehen. She is an Assistant Professor of Art and Design at Scripps College and core faculty in Intercollegiate Media Studies at The Claremont Consortium.