Alizée Armet
Resident in 2026
Artist-researcher Alizée Armet (1991, Bayonne) lives and works between Bayonne (France), Bilbao (Spain) and Montreal (Canada). She creates hybrid installations at the intersection of plastic, technology and biology. She is also a researcher, having obtained her PhD in ‘Art and Technology’ from the University of the Basque Country in 2021. Demystifying the myth of singularity, her practice integrates computation, 3D objects and organic materials. Alizée Armet also demystifies our anthropocentric conceptions through a practice derived from biomedia.
Her artistic works have been exhibited in Europe (Ars Electronica, Da Fest, Wrofest, Frac NoA, Basis e.V, Kapelica Gallery, etc.). She received the Art EcoConception award from the ArtOfChange association in 2024 and the Ekphrasis award in 2023. She has also participated in conferences such as TTT (2025), Tek A(rt) (2024), ISEA Paris (2023), Digital Ecologies in Practices (2022) and FeLT (202). She has written articles such as: (2025). Sympoïèsis digital de lo vivo: reinventar lo orgánico en la era digital ‘Revista Mundana’ (2024).
In 2023, she presented Ghostly Plants of Damaged Worlds at the Ars Electronica festival. This installation presents albino plants, incapable of photosynthesis, in a speculative scenario: they draw their energy from other plants or via nutrients, and play a role in phytoremediation of polluted soils. This project is also the subject of a study published in AusArt, in which Armet describes her crossovers between biology, technology and ecology.
‘Ghostly plants of damaged words. An artistic study on phytoremediation and the soil of the town of Jesenice in Slovenia, or how to perceive soil as a model of ecological creation.’ AusArt
She questions several myths: notably that of singularity (the belief in a totally independent or superior artificial intelligence) and the Cartesian separation between nature and culture.
Her work is part of a philosophical speculation: she imagines possible futures in which plants, micro-organisms or non-human communication networks play an active role, and in which technology is not limited to being a tool, but becomes an ecosystem in its own right.
Alizée Armet will be in residence in Auckland from July to August 2026.
Email : alizee.armet@hotmail.fr
