Miranda Moss

Born 1990 in Cape Town, South Africa

Currently living and working in Lucerne, Switzerland


Miranda Moss is an artist, designer, outsider engineer, eco-geek and rogue educator from Cape Town, South Africa. Her undisciplined practice, which focusses on the problematics and hopeful possibilities of technology from a socio-ecological and anticolonial feminist perspective, has seen her exhibit, teach and perform research across the globe in various art, science, community, academic, public and hacker spaces.

In 2017 she was the recipient of the Pro Helvetia / Artists-in-Labs residency in Zurich, where she was stationed in a phytopathology laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow, Forest and Landscape, investigating the colonial weight of “invasive alien” microorganisms. 2018 saw her first participation in the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), with a mass series of workshops-come-activist action to defend access to sustainable electricity, and in 2019 was the recipient of The NTAA (New Technological Art Awards) Audience Choice Award at Zebrastraat in Ghent. In 2020, she was awarded the konS Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art’s project production grant alongside collaborator Daniel Brownell, for a work reimagining factory farming and robotics, working alongside agri-tech scientists.

In September 2021, she completed a Masters degree in Sustainable Design at LNU in Sweden, where her thesis project “Power Harvest; explorations in regenerative energy technologies within the (post) colonial climate emergency” involved distilling cutting edge scientific experiments into poetic, artistically articulated and accessible forms of engagement. The project entailed developing a low-cost, DIY system for making electricity, fertilizer, and safely-treated water from human urine, in response to the oppressive technocoloniality inherent in post apartheid South Africa’s straining electrical, water and sanitation urban grid systems. She is wrapping up a 3 year long research project titled “Regenerative Energy Communities; artistic and collective energy experiments for resilient agriculture” funded by the Swedish Energy Agency’s Program for Energy, People and Society. From 2023-2024 she was the course co-ordinator for the second year of the Design+Change Masters programme at Linnaeus University, along with lecturing in the department for several years.

Currently, she works with Urs Gaudenz at GaudiLabs (LABS= Love, Art, Business & Science) in Lucerne, Switzerland.


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1990 -
Nationality: South African
Residence: Lucerne, Switzerland
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Miranda Moss

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