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
Responded to Hans Clever’s Stem Cell Research | Moving Image Collaboration with Wenqing Yao / 2021
A Dining experience of Lgr5+ stem cell and its organoid Intestinal dietary simulation
In "Lgr5+”, the remote dialogue of dining experiences intends to reflect the growth of Lgr5+ intestinal stem cells and its expansion in vitro by narrating the process of intestinal dietary. Inspired by the food sharing culture and eating habits, the project aims to ask the viewers to critique their roles as eaters and the diseases like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) caused by certain eating habits. In the narration design, the participants are considered as the Lgr5+ stem cells, and their eating process is how the stem cell works and the microbiota ecology look like in the simulative gut organoid.
The work is in progress, not available to preview online
