About this Event
This talk covers what organoid intelligence is, how it's being scaffolded as alien computation, and why current scaling approaches are hitting walls.
We'll examine the design constraints, emerging use cases, and the bioethical considerations that are rapidly being implemented in practice, and discuss some ongoing projects on benchmarking ambiguous systems and building closed-loop sandbox environments for hybridized synth-bio minds.
You'll leave with a framework for thinking about intelligence, embodiment, and moral status that applies whether you're culturing cells, programming synth-bio, or interacting with hybridized systems. Most importantly, you'll understand why the decisions being made in labs right now, about scaffolding, interaction design, and optimization targets, are encoding ethical commitments whether researchers realize it or not.
Meet your instructors:
Chloe Loewith is a researcher and writer working across synthetic biology, biomedical AI, and philosophy.
She is a philosophy of technology researcher at NYU, and was previously a studio researcher at Antikythera’s Cognitive Infrastructures Studio, a functional genomic bioethics researcher at SFU, and graduate student at the University of Cambridge Center for the Future of Intelligence.
Her work has appeared in the MIT Antikythera Journal, TANK Magazine, AI & Society, Bianjie, HERVISIONS, PhysioNet and the Whole Earth Redux. Her current research explores hybrid ecologies and co-evolutionary human-AI interaction, with a focus on cognitive assemblages, fluid ontologies, and distributed cognition.
www.linkedin.com/in/chloe-loewith
Jenn Leung is a researcher and creative technologist working at the intersection of synthetic biology, real-time simulation, and living neural systems. She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Technology & Design at University of the Arts London, a researcher at LifeFabs Institute, and a Visiting Researcher at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, working on the 100 Minds in Motion project combining EEG, eye-tracking, and movement data within agent-based simulation.
Her research currently focuses on developing Unreal Engine interfaces for living neurons and agent behaviour simulations. Two papers have recently been published in the MIT Antikythera Journal, and a paper on UE-API for brain-on-a-chip platforms was presented at NeurIPS 2025. Since 2025, she has collaborated with the biocomputing start-up Cortical Labs to create human-synthetic biological intelligence visualizations. In 2026, she is also collaborating with Michael Levin, Agnieszka Kurant, and Emily Ertle for Rhizome’s 7x7 programme.
Previously, Jenn was a studio researcher at Antikythera's Cognitive Infrastructures Studio in 2024, supported by the Berggruen Institute, led on community tech support for Off World Live, and served as Programme Head at the Architectural Association VS Unit 5 Xalon. Her work has been exhibited at Epic Games Innovation Lab, Ars Electronica, Medialab Matadero, W1 Curates, Tai Kwun Hong Kong, LACMA Digital Leaders, National Communication Museum (Australia), CIVA Festival, DAE Research Festival, PAF Olomouc, ALife Conference Kyoto, Aksioma, and Museum of Art in Public Spaces (Køge) among others, and was featured on Dazed, TANK Magazine, DIS, SHOWStudio, Art Asia Pacific, COEVAL Magazine, and AQNB.
In collaboration with Daniel Felstead, she has produced a short film series ‘I’m so Janky’ from DIS that explore the myths, ideologies and realities of the metaverse, AI, and Neuralink. She also collaborates with dmstfctn on simulation projects for Serpentine Arts Technologies and the Leonardo Supercomputer at Bologna’s Tecnopolo.
Jenn Leung是一位研究員及創意科技工作者，其工作橫跨合成生物學、即時模擬與活體神經系統的交匯領域。她現任倫敦藝術大學創意科技與設計高級講師、LifeFabs Institute 研究員，以及倫敦大學學院巴特雷特建築學院訪問研究員，參與 100 Minds in Motion 項目，將腦電圖、眼動追蹤與動作數據結合於主體行為模擬之中。
她目前的研究聚焦於為活體神經元及主體行為模擬開發虛幻引擎介面。近期已有兩篇論文發表於 MIT Antikythera Journal，另有一篇關於腦晶片平台虛幻引擎API的論文於 NeurIPS 2025 上發表。自2025年起，她與生物運算新創公司 Cortical Labs 合作，創作人類與合成生物智能的視覺化作品。2026年，她亦與 Michael Levin、Agnieszka Kurant 及 Emily Ertle 合作，參與 Rhizome 的 7x7 計劃。
此前，梁珍於2024年擔任 Antikythera 認知基礎設施工作室的駐室研究員，獲柏格魯恩研究院支持；她亦主導 Off World Live 的社群技術支援工作，並擔任建築聯盟學院 VS Unit 5 Xalon 的課程主任。
她的作品曾於 Epic Games 創新實驗室、林茲電子藝術節（Ars Electronica）、Medialab Matadero、W1 Curates、香港大館（Tai Kwun）、LACMA 數位領袖論壇、澳洲國家傳播博物館、CIVA Festival、DAE 研究節、PAF Olomouc、ALife Conference 京都、Aksioma，以及科厄（Køge）公共空間藝術博物館等地展出，並獲 Dazed、《TANK》雜誌、DIS、SHOWStudio、《藝術亞太》、COEVAL Magazine 及 AQNB 等媒體報導。
她與 Daniel Felstead 合作，為 DIS 製作了短片系列《I'm so Janky》，探索元宇宙、人工智能與 Neuralink 的神話、意識形態與現實。她亦與 dmstfctn 合作，為 Serpentine 藝術科技部門及博洛尼亞科技園的 Leonardo 超級電腦進行模擬項目。
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