BIOTOPY

>>>>Tier 1: Biotopy, 2024, edition of 3.
Components >> Custom computer setup with monitor and mouse, 1x bioreactor with 1x peristaltic pump and media chambers, game software.
Features >>> Exclusive edition, microbial cultures included. INQURE
(Biotopy at SeedAI House x SXSW, Austin, TX, 2025)

>>>>Tier 2: Biotopy, 2024, edition of 3.
Components >> 1x bioreactor with 1x peristaltic pump and media chambers, game software on USB stick.
Features >>> Exclusive edition, microbial cultures included. INQURE
(Biotopy at NEW INC Creative Science Dinner #4: Rewilding, New York, 2024)

WILL FREUDENHEIM is an artist and game designer based in New York. He builds game worlds to stage playful interactions between humans, computational systems, and living organisms, exploring cognition, collective behavior, and new forms of collaboration. He treats play as a window into how we think: games can get us to inhabit new modes of perception and reasoning through experience rather than explanation.
He is co-founder of Laser Days, an experimental worldbuilding studio creating films, installations, and live performances using real-time technologies. The studio collaborates with fine artists including Anicka Yi and Tishan Hsu, and has worked with musicians and commercial agencies around the world. Their animated short Acid City, a sci-fi climate documentary, premieres in the Rotterdam International Film Festival in January 2026.
Previously, he was a Studio Researcher at Antikythera, a think-tank investigating planetary computation. He holds a degree from MIT's Comparative Media Studies program. He is a long-time collaborator with the Trust community, with whom he created the game Hivemind for Serpentine Galleries R&D.
He co-edited Interplay (2024) with William Morgan, a book examining emergent forms of intelligence through game design.

WENDI YAN constructs speculative epistemologies through research-driven worldbuilding and metafictional simulation, using CGI, game engines, and documentary practices to probe and play with the artifice of knowledge.

The Grand Prix recipient of the 6th VH Award by Hyundai Motor Group (2025), Wendi has exhibited at international institutions including ArtScience Museum (Singapore), HEK (Basel), Ujazdowski Castle CCA (Warsaw) and Hyundai Motorstudio (Beijing). She holds an A.B. in History of Science from Princeton University and a M.S. in Fiction and Entertainment from SCI-Arc. She was an inaugural member of the Steve Jobs Archive Fellowship (2023) and the inaugural resident at A24 Labs (2026). Parallel to her studio practice, Wendi directs Research Revival, an experimental fund restoring forgotten research into active circulation.

Wendi is based in New York.

DARREN ZHU is a synthetic biologist and metascientist based in San Francisco. He explores the epistemic and aesthetic implications of emerging technologies, particularly as they pertain to scientific discovery and creativity. Through a mix of video essay, interactive installation, and experimental documentary, his creative work plays at the boundary of the natural versus artificial and scientific versus speculative.

Darren was a member of Antikythera at the Berggruen Institute, a Creative Science member of NEW INC at the New Museum, and resident at MESH Studio in the Digital Architectures Lab. His work has been supported by the Thiel Foundation, Gates Foundation, Ethereum Foundation, and Protocol Labs. Currently, he is the founder of a new consumer biotech startup, Culture.