> **Neri Oxman** (Hebrew: נרי אוקסמן; born February 6, 1976) is an American–Israeli designer and professor at the [[MIT Media Lab]], where she led the Mediated Matter research group. She is known for art and architecture that combine design, biology, computing, and materials engineering. > > Her work embodies environmental design and digital morphogenesis, with shapes and properties that are determined by their context. She coined the phrase "material ecology" to define her work, placing materials in context. Stylistic trademarks include brightly colored and textured surfaces with structure at many scales, and composite materials whose hardness, color, and shape vary over an object. The results are often in collaboration with or inspired by nature and biology. > > Many of Oxman's projects use new platforms and techniques for 3D printing and fabrication. They include co-fabrication systems for building hybrid structures with silkworms (Silk Pavilion), bees (Synthetic Apiary), and ants; Aguahoja, a water-based fabrication platform that built structures such as Aguahoja out of chitosan; > > and G3DP, the first 3D printer for optically transparent glass. Some of these platforms have been developed for broader use. Other projects print clothing, wearables, or structural elements, sometimes developing new composite materials in the process (such as resins containing biosynthetic bacteria). > > Oxman has had exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art [MoMA], Boston's Museum of Science, SFMOMA, and the Centre Pompidou, which have her works in their permanent collections. MoMA curator Paola Antonelli called her "a person ahead of her time, not of her time", > > and futurist Bruce Sterling called her work "shatteringly different from anything before". > > [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neri%20Oxman) - Potential link to [[Epstein, Jeffrey]]? - See [[Reid Hoffman apologizes for role in Epstein-linked donations to MIT]]