BURTON NITTA

Burton Nitta is the British-Japanese duo Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta, a transdisciplinary conceptual studio that investigates the future and human evolution with a focus on speculative futures, and human life through the prism of its entanglement with intangible biological communities.

"Their work is driven by the urgency and earnestness called for by our age of climate crisis, natural resource scarcity, and biodiversity loss; but it also manages to treat its subjects with aesthetic finesse and a touch of humor. The artist team studied at the Royal Ciollege of Art in London and they describe their origins in a way that concicely summarizes their aestehetic: 'Michiko's hyperreal Japanese background combines with Michael's upbringing on a farm in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, England.' The resulting collaboration merges an engeneer's precision and a science fiction writer's speculation. Their work can be described as building tools to create narratives about how our relationship to biology is undergoing radical change." (William Myers in: BioArt, Altered Realities, Thames & Hudson, 2015)

Their works have been exhibited at MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, V&A Museum London, and the Royal Academy London. Teaching appointments include at the Royal College of Art London, Kings College London, and Central Saint Martins.

Burton Nitta

In the media. MOMA, Republic of Salivation (Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta)—including a comment by Tim Parsons (Parsons & Charlesworth, also fellow artists of the re:future lab); Manhattan Digest, Design and Violence—MoMA’s online experiment; King’s College London, Food fictions; Centre Pompidou, La Fabrique du Vivant [The Fabric of the living]; Sommerset House, Studio residents Burton Nitta