Grow Your Own Cloud

Grow Your Own Cloud is an art and science initiative that stores data in plant DNA, exploring alternatives to carbon-emitting data infrastructure. Its best-known work is The Data Garden, an installation of plants encoded with digital data that visitors can decode. The project is linked to Unlisted Projects, which lists it as a resident and supports it. It has received awards including the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2022 and an honorary mention in the 2021 Ars Electronica S+T+ARTS Prize.