Dr. Ana Rajcevic

Dr. Ana Rajcevic is an artist, designer and researcher, working at the intersection of sculpture, prosthetics and technology. Her work focuses on different ways of altering the body through the creation of ‘hybrid prosthetics’  or what she terms ‘chimeric embodiments’ – external chimeric limbs that augment human physicality. Looking at prosthetics as an enhanced human experience, she explores phenomenological, material, and embodied nature of prosthesis and body-extensions, focusing on its metaphorical potential and unforeseeable transformations.

Bio

Her work spans across multiple platforms that include scientific research, art installations, exhibitions, performances and photo/video works. With a multi-disciplinary inquiry that combines experimental art and design with research in biomedicine, robotics, materials science, and psychology, Rajcevic creates hybrid human-embodiments using most notably natural and synthetic polymers and medical biomaterials, as well as novel technologies, such as AI, robotics and biotechnologies.

Ana Rajcevic’s works have been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries such as the Smithsonian Museum (USA), Boijmans Museum (NL), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE), Science Museum (UK), Science Week (DE) and Venice Design Biennale (IT), and are in the permanent collection of Design Museum den Bosch (NL), NumannHug collection (CH), Arnsberg Kunstverein (DE) among others. She has received multiple awards for her work, and since 2015 she has been elected member of the RSA – Royal Society of Arts in London. Furthermore, Rajcevic work has been published in print and digital media such as the “Independent”, the “Guardian”, the “Wired”, the “CNN”, etc.

Ana holds a PhD in Artistic Research from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and is also a visiting lecturer at UAL – the University of the Arts, London. Starting in 2024, Dr. Rajcevic was invited to join the MIT Biomechatronic Lab at the MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, as a Research Scientist, continuing her research in hybrid embodiments.