Mitosis: Formation of Daughter Cells, a multimedia installation by A.M Hoch, launched the opening of the Beall Center for Art and Technology at UC Irvine in 2004. Working in collaboration with Wallace Shawn, Deborah Eisenberg, Andrea Schell, and dotsperinch, Hoch created her own kind of theater of memory, combining video, sound, painting and sculpture in a deeply personal environment.

Mitosis: Formation of Daughter Cells explores family and memory on the micro and the macro levels, using images of cellular mitosis as a recurring metaphor for the struggle for individuation with the family. Mirroring the way our memories lodge in our bodies, our cells, and our psyches, video images and sound and text are embedded in the specific architecture of the installation space.

In April 2007, Mitosis: Formation of Daughter Cells will be re-envisioned and adapted for the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, in Spoleto, Italy, produced with the support of LaMama International, BvNW, and others. This incarnation of Mitosis will use materials and technologies befitting the architecture of Spoleto's museum of modern art, and will be created with the technical direction of Andrea Paciotto, recently chosen to represent Italy in the theatre category of the Venice Biennale, 2007.

Mitosis: Formation of Daughter Cells with be presented in the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna in a show that will also include the works of two other artists-Rachele Caputo (from Italy) and Julian Janowski (from Poland)-entitled "Le Zone," a reference to that inner ground of creativity within every individual, which belies and mitigates our sense of isolation.