Press
Flower Power. Gabrielle Schwarz, July, 2023.
“Her works often invoke beauty and sublimity, whether of flowering plants or birdsong—aesthetic categories that foreground our inevitably human perspective on the natural world and what will be lost if the trajectory of the climate crisis is not reversed.”
Outland
“Ginsberg uses her art to build new worlds and question everything about the ones in place”
CLOT Magazine
Caretaker of Nature, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. Sarah Dorkenwald, Issue 14, 2023.
“Pollinator Pathmaker shifts our perspective and builds on our empathy for these creatures; it helps us to care for them.”
Nomad Magazine
Rage With the Machine. Gabrielle Shwarz, August, 2023.
“Collaborating with horticulturalists and scientists, the artist devised an algorithm to create garden planting schemes that support the maximum number of bees, butterflies and other pollinators for every square foot.”
The Guardian
Buzz Feeds. Ariadne Fletcher, 7 November 2022.
"Planting by numbers: join Daisy Ginsberg’s hive mind at Pollinator Pathmaker, an online tool that’ll turn your garden into a land of plenty."
World of Interiors
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: Countering the Insect Apocalypse. Rupal Rathore, Autumn 2022.
"We must learn anew! Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg raises some such fundamental questions in her living artwork – an inter-species garden within Kensington Gardens at the Serpentine Galleries in London."
Damn Magazine
Pollinator Pathmaker. Souren Ala & Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. Autumn 2022.
"Ginsberg's creation is not another rewilding project, but something much more deliberate. The design of Pollinator Pathmaker gardens has been put in the many 'hands' - arms, legs, and mandibles - of the creatures it aims to attract."
The Hardy Plant: Journal of the Hardy Plant Society
Innovate to Pollinate. Malaika Byng, July 29 2022.
"This new wave of innovations could help us understand that our gardens — and technology — can be designed for the benefit of other creatures beyond ourselves."
Financial Times
At the Serpentine, a Show of Nature’s Healing Power. Frank Rose, July 28 2022.
"The climate crisis is inspiring — and requiring — new perspectives in thinking for the London gallery, starting with “Back to Earth.”"
New York Times
"Ginsberg sees Pollinator Pathmaker as encoding empathy into an algorithm, in this case by defining empathy as a design that would support as many pollinator species as possible."
Dezeen
Algorithmic Gardens. Martha Dillon and Nina Carter, June 30 2022.
"The unique artwork - made from 7000 plants, from 64 species - seeks to challenge what a garden is and who it is for."
It's Freezing in LA!
"Have you ever wondered how bees see the natural world? Artist-turned-entomologist and gardener Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg has created an algorithm to optimise planting from a bee’s perspective."
Evening Standard
"Over 7,000 plants from 64 species planted last autumn by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg have turned into a colorful, aromatic, blossoming art piece."
Widewalls
A Floral Algorithm. Jan 10 2022.
"A garden is typically a space in which nature is sculpted to suit human aesthetic tastes, but could the typology be reframed to meet the needs of other species and might our urge to “better” the world be extended to account for ideas other than its utility to humans?"
Disegno
Garden of Eden. Imogen West-Knights, July 2, 2021.
"Designing the natural world can be an uneasy undertaking. Instinctively, something feels unheimlich, even ethically dubious, about engineering what is natural. But Ginsberg’s works taken as a whole show a confidence that posing questions around this unease is just as valuable an undertaking as proposing solutions to them."
Port Magazine
Art for bees: ‘mad-looking’ installation suits pollinators’ tastes. Steven Morris. Nov 3 2021.
"Ginsberg’s 55-metre long piece, which is taking shape at the eco-visitor attraction the Eden Project in Cornwall, is not designed, like most art, to please humans, but rather to appeal to bees, butterflies, moths, wasps and other endangered pollinators."
The Guardian
'It's an unnatural garden designed for nature.' Aoife Fannin, October 2021.
"Artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg has created software for bugs and put a algorithm in charge of a garden created solely for the pleasure of pollinators."
Bloom Magazine
'General Ecology', the Serpentine Galleries. Autumn 2021.
"Artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg has created Pollinator Pathmaker, which uses an algorithm to optimise the selection and placement of plants for polliantors - what she calls an 'artwork for pollinators, not about them."
Art Quarterly