Myriel Milicevic is an artist, researcher and interaction designer based in Berlin. With her Neighbourhood Satellites she explores the hidden connections between people and their natural, social, and technical environments. These explorations are mostly of a participatory nature, emerging from collaborations with other artists and scientists, in the context of workshops, classrooms, exhibitions, residencies and out in the field.
As an interaction designer she has worked for design firms Experientia s.r.l and Interaction Design Studios (IxDS), engaged in projects for major clients. For example, at IxDS she conducted a long term-research project on Gender Inspired Technology with Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories, which resulted in a number of products. She has also been a researcher at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, where she worked on the Consuming Energy project, which looks at using design and technology to encourage people to consume resources sustainably.
Myriel received her MA from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy and her diploma in Graphic Design from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Further, she followed studies at the Conceptual and Information Arts department of San Francisco State University as part of her education.
Group Exhibitions / Public Activities
- Ethnobotanical Station at ReGeneration, New York Hall Of Science. With Amy Franceschini as Futurefarmers. 2012-13
- Ethnobotanical Station at Art, Environment, Action! SJDC, Parsons The New School for Design. With Amy Franceschini as Futurefarmers. 2012
- U10 – from here to the imaginary and back again at metro station Neukölln, Berlin. Commissioned by NGBK/U10, 2011
- Initiative at Über Lebenskunst, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany, 2011
- Summercamp Electrified, Timelab, Ghent, Belgium, 2011
- ENERGIE = ARBEIT, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin, Germany, 2010
- Artists in Dialog, Art Laboratory, Berlin, Germany, 2010
- Radar, Building Green (as Futurefarmers) Loughbrough University, UK, 2010
- Smart Urban Stage, Berlin, Germany, 2010
- Urban Wilderness Action Center, Electrosmog Festival. Skulpturenpark KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V., Berlin, Germany, 2010
- Visual Voltage Amplified, Felleshuset, Berlin, Germany, 2010
- Energy, XI International festival for new media culture, RIXC, Riga, Latvia, 2009
- Banff New Media Institute, Interactive Screen 0.9, Banff, Canada, 2009
- Without You I am Nothing, the Green Lantern, Chicago, USA, 2009
- Ecomedia (as Free Soil). Sala Parpalló, Valencia, Spain, 2009
- Ecomedia: Ecological strategies in today’s art (as Free Soil). Plug-in, Basel, Switzerland, 2008
- Cité Sauvage, Streets of Berlin, Germany, 2008
- Ökomedien/ Ecomedia (as Free Soil). Edith Russ Site for New Media, Oldenburg, Germany, 2007
- Art, Traffic, Mobility. Art*Labs, Sibiu, Romania, 2007
- Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art (as Free Soil). Smart Museum, Chicago, USA, 2005
- Learning Trees, Midway Plaisance, Eaglewood, Woodlawn, Chicago, USA, 2005
- Exit, MA Show, Turin, Italy, 2005
- The Greenhouse Effect, Stadio San Siro, Milan, Italy, 2005
- Strangely Familiar: Unusual Objects in Everyday Life. Galerie AB+,
Turin, Italy, 2005 - Orange County Museum (as Futurefarmers), California Biennial, Santa Ana, USA, 2004
- Borderline/ BITE, Fondazione Sandretto di Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 2004
Residencies
- Colorado College, USA, 2012
- Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, USA. As Futurefarmers. 2012
- Summercamp Electrified at Timelab, Ghent, Belgium, 2011
- Art*Labs, Sibiu, Romania, 2007
- Luminous Green Retreat and Symposium on environmental sustainability, ethical living and eco-technology. FoAm, Belgium, 2007
- Futurefarmers, San Francisco, USA, 2004
Tutoring/ Workshops
- Energy Harvests workshop as part of Shaking Science at Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven, NL, 2012
- Visiting lecturer at the department of Integral Studies, Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. Spring term 2012
- Mentor at the University for the Arts Bremen, Germany. October 2011 – October 2012
- BFA thesis class, spring term. Parsons the New School for Design. Co-teaching with Jon Cohrs. 2011
- Energy Harvests Workshop. Über Lebenskunst, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany, 2011
- Energy Harvests Workshop. Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin, Germany, 2010
- Visual Voltage Workshop, Felleshuset, Nordic Embassies Berlin, Germany, 2010
- Metabolic Toys, Naba Design School, Milano, Italy, 2009
- Metabolic Toys, School of Architecture and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand, 2008
- Towns R Us – Playing on Public Objects, Naba Design School, Milano, Italy, 2008
- Human Powered Objects. Higher Institute of Product Development, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007
- UNESCO toys workshop for children’s rehabilitation, Bielefeld, Germany, 2006
- Politics of Play, Pixelache, Paris, France, 2006
- Applied Dreams Toy Workshop, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy, 2005
Lectures/ Conferences
- Temporäre Räume, Luftschlösser und Rauchwolken, University of the Arts, Bremen, 2012
- Food in the City Research Group,Eyebeam, Art + Technology Center, NYC, 2011
- Transdigital Seminar 2011, Vooruit Ghent, 2011
- Radar Artist Talk Series, Loughborough University, UK, 2010
- Human-Environment Mobile-Based Interactions, MIT Media Lab, 2009
- Banff New Media Institute, Interactive Screen 0.9, Canada, 2009
- Sustainable Practices + Design Interventions , University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam, Germany, 2007
- Ubiquitous Sustainability Workshop: Technologies for Green, 2007
- Values Ubicomp 2007, Innsbruck, Austria, 2007
- UNESCO toys workshop for children’s rehabilitation, Bielefeld, Germany. Yerevan, Armenia, 2005
- PerGames 2005, Munich, Germany, 2005
- University of Washington, Seattle, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, 2004
Select Publications
- Beneath the Pavement – A Garden. With Amy Franceschini.Published by Radar and developed from the Building Green programme at Loughborough University (UK). ISBN 978-1-907382-34-5, 2011
- Net Works: Case Studies of Web Art and Design (ed. Xtine Burrough, Routledge) Chapter on Garden Registry with Amy Franceschini and David Lu. ISBN-10: 0415882222, 2011
- Imaginary To Dos -Three initiatives for personal environmental explorations. Technologies for Green Values, Ubicomp, 2007
- Facing = Doing. Accepted paper for the CHI workshop About Face: Interface Creative Engagement in New Media Arts and HCI, 2006
- Interview Beyond Green — Towards a sustainable art with Free Soil, Smart Museum Chicago 10/2005 ISBN 0-935573-42-9, 2005
- Play Today – Current trends in electronic toys and games. For Experientia, 2005
