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
Tails of the Future- Synthetic Anatomy | Moving Images | Sound Design / 2021
Synthetic Anatomy Collaborative Practice Pilot February is launched bySynthetic Anatomy Team at King's College, London in February / March 2021. Synthetic Anatomy is a ground-breaking module that brings together bioengineering, chemistry and biology students to explore new ways of thinking about the body and innovative 3d printing techniques. Launched just three years ago, it now draws over 70 students from around the world.
The Tail Market is a Collaborative Project to respond the scientific research worked by Shahmeer Noori, Jathushan Baheerathan, Anne Jegiraj, Eashan Khan, Darya Bahraini.
“Tail is your adornment. Tail is your attachment. Tail is your manifesto.”
To respond the project “Tails of the Future” in Synthetic Anatomy, the Tail Market is a fictional proposal, speculating a possible availability of artificial tails and challenging the weirdness ofthese soft robotics to the public. The Tail Market enables the customers to browse the various tails online by categories, images and mixed reality technologies. These tails open the opportunities of prosthetic implant and embodied wearables. The Tail Market advocates that everyone has rights to speak themselves by tails. The programming systems and machine-generated images are explored to visualize the tails of the future.
The work is on progress, but you can view the recent iteration from here
