Synthetic Life in New Media Art  ‘Synbio Life’ is focused on ‘synthetic biological life in new media art’ by using synthetic materials with biological data. This project includes three main parts: a computationally coded synthetic yeast video, an acrylics (a synthetic material; created during the Industrial Revolution) installation and the movement of gears (one of […]

To produce the steady and natural growth of yeast cells firstly I found and eject matter from “agaric honey” fungus which is widely spread in south Russia. To prepare the ground for growing I used sterile 3 lit jar and cover 20% of space with soil. However, according to do dry condition it was covered […]

Before the tutorial with Helen, I already finished writing my draft essay for the tutorial. I knew that this first draft essay has lots of problems though. She recommended me quite a lot of reading lists that are supposed to help to make my point in the writing. According to her feedback, I started to […]

Reviewing the wip2 show, I made a few faults that I hadn’t expected. Firstly, I focused on the aesthetic side of gears, so I put quite a lot of efforts on the designs (even single shape of gears). At the same time, I wanted to show the video properly with smoothly harmonising with gears. However, […]

Due to my decision about putting synthetic biology theme in my art practice, I should scheme the proper division with synthetic, organic and synthetic biology for delivering my concept more efficiently. To show the synthetic part, I used synthetic materials (acrylics) with gears. At the same time, I put the biological symbols on the gears. […]

As soon as I decided to do projection mapping on my gears, few ideas came up in my brain about how can I shoot properly and more interesting way. My initial plan was making massive one gear set and put some symbols with gears and making rotate. In this case, the projector will be shot […]

I was extremely confused that where can I head for my dissertation. I had too wide range and difficult to narrow down. Before the critique session, I prepared to write down everything what I thought about but after critique I decided to focus on the distance especially want to prove the psychological distance due to […]

After a private tutorial with Helen, I’d got a lot of advice in both physical and philosophical practices. The first thing I could do was making gear set again in my Russia exhibition. I didn’t want to make the same mistake with last term WIP show. I decided to get help from the online tutorials […]