Danielle Parsons (b.1973, New York, US) explores science, art, and technology to illuminate themes of self-organization, symbiosis, and scale. Her multidisciplinary practice utilizes microscopes, video, photography, and generative chemical art to reveal hidden dimensions. Through a range of lens-based modalities, she captures living organisms, crystalline structures, and chemical reactions, revealing unseen relationships and fostering new connections with the natural world. Her layered video installations juxtapose human and non-human perspectives, using diverse materials from non-recyclables to organic matter. By inviting viewers to enjoy the beauty in invisible systems and microscopic scale, Parsons aims to inspire a shift in perspective toward other forms of intelligence and ecological balance. Inspired by her formative studies under evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson at Harvard University, Parsons investigates how fundamental forces shape intelligent organizations of biological and ecological systems.

Her works have been exhibited widely at venues including San Luis Obispo Museum of Art and SPRING/BREAK (Los Angeles). Film and media festivals include the Infinity Festival (Los Angeles). Goethe, Free Radicals Brooklyn, Imagine Science NY, Tofino, Canada. Public art installations include a large-scale generative video artwork in the Los Angeles Central Library Atrium and a site-specific Augmented Reality (AR) artwork at South by Southwest (2022). Commissions include thematic projects for the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and Bloomberg Made in NY Media Center. Music collaborations include visuals for Metallica’s S&M2 Concert led by Joshua Light Show and a music video for Ariel Pink. Parsons has received two NIKON awards for video microscopy and a filmmaker grant from NYSCA. Parsons also collaborates with scientists, musicians, artists, and imaging technologists through her creative educational project, Wonder Science. For over a decade, the Wonder Science TV channel has distributed on AppleTV, iOS, Amazon, Roku, and YouTube.