Guy Ben-Ary is a UWA IAS Affiliate, he is a Perth-based artist and researcher. Recognised internationally as a major artist and innovator working across science and media arts, Guy specialises in biotechnological artwork, which aims to enrich our understanding of what it means to be alive. Interested in how art has the potential to initiate public debate on the challenges arising from the existence of liminal lives, Ben-Ary creates artworks designed to problematise current and emergent bio-technologies' influence on the shifting forces that govern and determine life, death, sentience and intelligence.

Guy's work has been shown across the globe at prestigious venues and festivals from MONA, Hobart, to the Venice Biennale to the Mori Museum in Tokyo(to name a few). His work Bricolage won an Award of Excellence at the Japan Media Arts Festival; Bricolage, cellF, and Silent Barrage were awarded an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica; and Silent Barrage also won first prize at VIDA, a significant international competition for Art and Artificial Life.