As a bio-inspired designer and interdisciplinary researcher, Shontelle Xintong Cai is currently based in Toronto and London. Her works explore the intersections of design, art, science and technology. She experiments with information visualization, experience system and multimodal interaction with audiovisual communication technologies, programmable materials, ‘moist media’ and life science data. Her art and design practices are influenced by her academic background related to visual communication, digital media studies and plant physiology. She considers Design as Discussion: a design protocol centring around the non-human and ecological approach by sensory narratives and fictional objects. She critically and parametrically engages in designing the innovative dialogues between complex scientific knowledge and cross-sensory experience. To practice the design methodologies and transmedia storytelling via scientific systems and computation, she opens the discussions about the inherent values of more-than-human participatory research, technoscientific interventions, synthetic bio-design, political ecology and objecthood to the potential audience. She has shared her creative practices and design paradigm through several workshops, symposiums and exhibitions in China, Canada, Franc and the United Kingdom.
Education:
OCAD University-BDes Graphic Design,With Completion of a Minor in Digital & Media Studies (2016-2020)
Royal College of Art- MA Information Experience Design, with distinction of degree dissertation (2020-2022)
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Index
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Machine Learning in Visualization and Sonification; Morphology; Biotextile
The work explores the possibility for posthuman technologies to break the down the boundaries between humans and simulative life forms. After achieving singularity how will posthuman and simulative living forms inform one another? Employing research, experimentation and speculation this body of work speculates about a possible form of interaction by creating a simulation in the form of an interactive installation.
An Experience Roon of Mind Uploading Devices
Mechanism
The inspiration of interactive installation comes from the old clay creation myth. This project intends to create an experience room for simulating mind transfer teleservice in post-human era. The mechanism of uploading mind reflects the idea of quantum entanglement. People uploads their mind via computer to their simulative life form, which are generated and cannot be considered independently of the state of the others, even when people and their simulated form are seperated by physical and digital realm. The experience room creates an interactive space and applies recent technologies for imitating the conceptual mind transfer teleservice might be developed on the post-human scale. People enable to experience the mind updating from the synchronized graphic projection.
