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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Machine Learning in Visualization and Sonification; Morphology; Biotextile
By delving into the research of stratospheric balloon astronomy and autopoietic system theories, “Launch A Dream” intends to simulate a sonic near-space exploration and embed systematic thinking when designing the interactive process and experiences of installation. the open data sources is collected by Canadian Space Agency. The creation of immersive sonic experience of space exploration, particularly with a stratospheric (high-attitude balloon, enables the audience to get involved and improvise a part of sound making during the process. After “launching the dream of space flight”, the audience can reflect the relationship among selfhood, system, and space to some extent.
