Survival and Transformation
Third Annual DXARTS x Greenhouse Art Exhibition

Survival and Transformation explores how cultural forms - images, sounds,
language - survive not through permanence, but through reinterpretation,
recurrence, and transformation. Co-hosted by DXARTS and the UW Biology
Greenhouse, the exhibition approaches the greenhouse as both ecological
infrastructure and living archive: a space where dormant forms are sustained,
reactivated, and continually reshaped by their environments.

Drawing from strategies of digital preservation - storage, emulation,
migration, and reinterpretation - the exhibited works examine how the past
remains latent within contemporary technological and ecological systems.
In both biological and digital contexts, continuity depends less on fixity than
on adaptation and reinterpretation.

 

Including works by UW students, faculty and visiting artists: