Djerassi Executive Director Margot Knight describes the beginning of the sophomore year of SDM: "On 30 June 2015, a curious, intrepid and accomplished group arrived at our remote Artists’ Ranch to experience the second annual Scientific Delirium Madness (now Leonardo at Djerassi) artist/scientist residency. Pireeni Sundaralingam, 2014 SDM alum, facilitated exercises to accelerate camaraderie. Shyness evaporated and conversations began. The group may have arrived as strangers but they left as friends and collaborators." Explore the gallery, artists' statements and blogs stemming from the SDM 2015 residency that took place 30 June–July 29, 2015 to find out what happened.
Using the Djerassi clay, I began to test out an idea that I had been thinking about for the last year. As part of my project Total Archive, I had conceptualized interspecies ghost creatures which...












