Bio

Gene A. Felice II bridges his creative practice across art, science, education and design, developing a sustainable network of innovation, living systems, and emerging technologies. His hybrid practice grows at the intersection of nature and technology, developing coactive systems as arts science research. While keeping site specific histories in mind, he builds these varied passions into a framework of creative collaboration.

Gene II is an associate professor in Digital / Studio Art within the department of Art & Art History and the Associate Director of community based learning and scholarship at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where he is developing the Coaction Lab for interdisciplinary collaboration. He is a co-founder of the Algae society, an international, collaborative group of artists and scientists. His work has been featured at the Cameron Art Museum, the MOXI museum in Santa Barbara, CA, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and internationally at Sussex University in the UK, at ISEA Hong Kong and as an American Arts Incubator, State Dept. funded exchange artist based in Alexandria Egypt.  Most recently, he was invited for a Summer 2024 Arts Residency at the Museum for Loss & Renewal in the Molise region of Italy.