Michael Joo is participating in the group exhibition Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice currently on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, USA. The exhibition features over 100 artworks by 25 international artists, exploring the climate crisis and other human-caused disasters that humanity faces all together.

For the exhibition, Michael Joo collaborated with digital artists Danil Krivoruchko and Snark.art to create a collection of NFTs modelled after the crystalline structure of coral reefs. The algorithms and 3D printing technology utilized for the works have since been put to practical use by researchers at the University of Hawai’i for the research on the development of fish species that inhabit the coral reef. This process illustrates how art and science can be interwoven together in order to address and solve the current environmental issues.

The exhibition spotlights transdisciplinary practices that encompass diverse media, including painting, photography, multimedia, augmented reality (AR), and even living organisms to address the climate crisis, challenge anthropocentric thinking, and present a worldview that moves beyond hierarchical structures to envision all elements of nature as a whole rather than as materials for use and exploitation by humankind. The exhibition continues through January 5, 2025.