GEO-LLUM aims to reimagine the role of public lighting in green urban areas with a symbiotic relationship between the artificial and the natural world, focusing on a deeper understanding of microorganism community such as fundamental collaborators in the city ecosystem.
Geobacters are the bacterias we are collaborating with, amongst others, because of their super capabilities of creating free electricity while bio-remediating contaminated soil. Geo-Llum is also included in the first bioremediation pilot program of the city of Barcelona in the Hort del Clot.
The project is an autonomous performative art piece conceived as an organic and growing being, where the role of humans is to take care of it, drawing attention to the different forces that play for its right functioning.

Repairing the Present received funding from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement LC01641664.

Samira Benini Allaouat is a trans-disciplinary artist, fascinated by old technologies and knowledges with new contemporary applications. She is also in to maker and DIY philosophy, questioning stereotypes, taken-for-granted social behaviors and systems, exploring new paths of bending and blending elements, researching and testing low-tech solutions to build a more resilient future perspective.

Coming from a 25 years radical urban art background and from moving image design, her favorite medium is the city. The spectrum of her art practice is quite wide and she has internationally achieved a large number and different typologies of performances, exhibitions, publishing projects and events under different pseudonyms, also anonymously.

Digging more in depth into paradigm changing, she is conveying wider aspects of human life sustainability and new ethical approach in art and design. In the most recent case, she identifies electricity in nature and automation as the leitmotif of her researches, such as her “No Plug Sound Machine” where the question was “How to make electronic music without conventional electricity?”. The artwork have been exhibited at the Tate Modern Museum with her collective Hackoustic from London Hack Space, at London Urban Street Hackaton 2015, presented at the Aberystwyth Art Center and performed at Ausland, a reference for underground culture and experimental music in Berlin.