Artnet

Artist Anicka Yi Is Launching a Line of Perfumes That Blend Oils, Herbs—and Glandular Secretions

“In relation to fragrance, we have very stale and stagnant narratives about what the feminine is,” says the artist Anicka Yi. That’s why she’s teamed up with perfumer Barnabé Fillion and department ...
Artnet

‘I’d Like You All to Meet My Aerobe Friend’: Watch Artist Anicka Yi Give Her First TED Talk—Alongside a Giant Robotic Organism

“In the last few years, I’ve been keeping company with a new species that happens to live in the air,” said artist Anicka Yi at the opening of her recent TED Talk, “and I’d like you all to meet my ...
Observer

Anicka Yi

Anicka Yi, born in 1971 in Seoul, South Korea, and based in New York City, is celebrated for her pioneering work in the intersection of fragrances, culinary ingredients, and organic matter within c… ...
W magazine

How Anicka Yi’s Science Experiments Are Expanding the Boundaries of Art

Photograph by Adrian Gaut; Styled by Nora Milch. The artist Anicka Yi is sitting in her plant-filled dining room talking about the quixotic inventor Elon Musk. “He’s like, ‘Why would you want flying ...
Houston Chronicle

Summer at MFAH: Spend a day in 68 degrees among Indian textiles, 'biologized machines,' creative AI

Look, summer in Houston is only just beginning to heat up. As a Museum of Fine Arts staffer reminds prospective visitors, buildings on its campus are cooled to a central air conditioning ideal (sans ...
The Art Newspaper

Anicka Yi fills Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with giant floating robots and millennia-old odours

Two species of intelligent robots have moved into some prime, Thames-side real estate: Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Collectively named aerobes, the floating orbs that the New York-based artist Anicka ...