Viola Arduini

Viola Arduini is an Italian artist, researcher, and educator with an MFA in Art & Ecology from University of New Mexico. Prior to joining University of Colorado Boulder, she worked as art educator and administrator, collaborating with national and international networks to expand dialogues engaging art and science. As artist, she has been working with CRISPR and biotechnologies to explore human and more-than-human interactions. She is currently a doctoral student in Emergent Technologies and Media Art Practices program in the Critical Media Practices Department at CU Boulder, and part of the Living Matter Lab in the ATLAS Institute. Viola’s research interests include biodesign and the creative use of biotechnologies at times of ecological loss. She’s currently researching the properties of human milk as biomaterial and posthuman technology for interspecies storytelling.

Publications

Viola Arduini, Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Srujana Golla, and Mirela Alistar. 2026. “Designing for the Leaky Body: Exploring Biomaterial Absorption as Body-Material Interaction”. In: Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. (Chicago, IL, March 8-11, 2026).

Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Viola Arduini, Etta W Sandry, Katerina Houser, Srujana Golla, and Mirela Alistar. 2026. “Bioactuated Tapestry: An Installation Exploring Temporalities of Textile Craft and Moisture-Responsive Biomaterials”. In: Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. (Chicago, IL, March 8-11, 2026).

Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Viola Arduini, Etta W Sandry, Srujana Golla, Laura Devendorf, and Mirela Alistar. 2025. “Bioactuated Textiles: Exploring Reversible Actuation of Casein Bioplastic in Woven Textiles”. In: Companion of the 2025 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp Companion ’25). (Espoo, Finland, October 12–16, 2025).