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Department of Audio and Visual Arts • Ionian University

Participants

The Organizing Committee sincerely thanks all candidates for submitting a proposal for TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp (BFBC) Fall 2024 and the International Program Committee that carefully reviewed many proposals for eight scholarships. Selected were:

Nupur Doshi
Nathalie Dubois Calero
Lyn Hagan
Kinyua Malaika
Mellissa Monsoon
Praba Pilar
Chiara Pitrola
Chinedum Muotto

Also participating in TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp (BFBC) Fall 2024, on ground:
Isidora Paz Fernandez
Viktoria Koniaeva
Serafim Parsaloglou Marathias
Nikolas Marcellos
Janet Sarson
Nafsika Tzanoulinou

Online:
Brian Contreras
Kristin Lucas
Callum J Siegmund
Vlada Oleynik
Terrabytes Glitch Lab: Xristina Sarli + Augusto Calçada

Updated: 23-07-2024

On Ground

Nupur Doshi

Nupur Doshi is an Associate Curator at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre with experience in exhibition management and art consulting. Nupur is also a recipient of a Global South Scholarship to undertake courses and research on interdisciplinary notions and modes of thinking across para-art trajectories, critical philosophy and transdisciplinary studies.

Nathalie Dubois Calero

Nathalie Dubois Calero is a BacterVirHuman, scientist (Ph.D. in biology, UPMC, France) and bioartist (MFA, University of Windsor, Canada). Her feminist/queer works explore human-microbe relationships through workshops, performances, ontological workshop games, and videos/sounds. She collaborates on MaterVirus with Cecilia Vilca, and Waterbodies with Ada Gogova—member of Incubator Art Lab, Windsor.

Lyn Hagan

Lyn Hagan is an artist and pseudo-academic/Academic and pseudo-artist/Only works with animals, machines and kids/Unhealthy America Fetish/Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University/Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Apocalypse and Post Apocalypse Studies at Heidelberg University/Apologizes for putting a black cat on a zero gravity flight with the Russian Space Agency/Still wants to put an artwork on Mars/Will die trying/

Kinyua Malaika

Kinyua Malaika is an Ingénieur Assistant at CNRS with a Master's degree in Drug Development from Université Paris-Saclay. With internships at Institut Cochin and Institut Pasteur, Kinyua has expertise in cell culture, molecular biology, and pharmacology. She has volunteered for Biofabricate and Orphelinat Mama Anakuja.

Mellissa Monsoon

Mellissa Monsoon is a renowned bio-artist whose multidisciplinary work, including illustration, sculpture, and film, visualises human anatomy's unseen aspects. Her acclaimed project Microbial Me is permanently displayed at the Eden Project. Her recent projects address healthcare stigma and visualise chronic health conditions, raising awareness of symptoms like tinnitus and migraines.

Praba Pilar

prabapilar.com

Praba Pilar is a queer diasporic Colombian artist creating wildly interdisciplinary art projects focused on technologies of life, which have been featured in museums, galleries, universities, and festivals around the world. She has a PhD in Performance Studies, Co-Directs the Bioarts Ethical Advisory Komission, teaches at California College of the Arts, and is at prabapilar.com

Chiara Pitrola

Chiara Pitrola is an hydrofeminist practitioner working with rituals as a form of technology to hold ecological issues. She’s concerned with embodied practices, ecology, deep listening and DIY community care. She’s also into transcorporeal flows, herbalism and advocates for oral poetry as a form of spell, protest and imaginative tool.

Chinedum Muotto

Chinedum Muotto is a multi-disciplinary artist, cultural producer, researcher, and educator. His work weaves intricate stories using found objects, focusing on archives and their significance. Recent residencies include CREATE, Irish Museum of Modern Art, and PACT Zollverein. His research for the UN Decade for People of African Descent explores African heritage and contemporary issues.

Isidora Fernandez

Isidora / Ipi Fernandez studied a Master's degree in Scientific Communication (Barcelona) and has worked as research assistant, project designer and STEAM experience designer in Chile and Spain.

Recently has directed SFC's Arts&Science department, where she has designed citizen participation projects merging art and science such as creative workshops or exhibits.

Viktoria Koniaeva

Viktoria Koniaeva, with a degree in Foreign Languages, Translation, and Interpreting, now pursues Informatics at Ionian University. A language teacher for 8 years, she explores neuro-linguistics for enhanced language acquisition. Intrigued by Tarot reading and entomology, she symbolically engages with diverse communication methods.

Serafim Parsaloglou Marathias

Selected as the documentarist in residency, Serafim Parsaloglou Marathias is currently pursuing a degree in Audiovisual Arts at the Ionian University and has experience as a camera trainee and assistant, ie. "Goddard Knows the Truth" and "Goodwin Island", and as a production assistant, ie. "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3”.

Nikolas Marcellos

Nikolas Marcellos, born in Athens, studied music at the National Conservatory and graduated from music high school in 2018. He is currently studying at the Fine Arts School of Athens, after attending the Fine Arts School of Thessaloniki, focusing on painting under Pantelis Chandris.

Janet Sarson

Janet Sarson is a queer writer, researcher, editor and recovering geologist from Winnipeg, Canada. Her recent work with the art collectives SARLAR and Larval Rock Stars focuses on technological imaginaries. As a white settler Canadian, Sarson has worked on initiatives defending Indigenous rights in the Prairies of Canada for decades.

Nafsika Tzanoulinou

Nafsika Tzanoulinou, born in Athens, graduated from the Department of Social and Education Policy at the University of Peloponnese in Corinth. Currently studying at the Athens School of Fine Arts, she explores materials and practices, focusing on human-to-nature pattern interactions.

Online

Brian Contreras

Brian Contreras is a Guatemalan artist focused on creating interactive and community-engaged art. His work addresses socio-environmental issues, exploring themes of identity, biology, and language, aiming to foster dialogue, reflection, and collective action through communal experiences.

Kristin Lucas

Kristin Lucas is a flamingo expert and artist. She explores connectivity as an interpersonal process and a condition of the digital age that is as technological, electrical, and cybernetic, as it is familial, ancestral and ecological. Her wide-ranging embodied experiments are characterized by playful, open-ended inquiry, often involving collaboration and audience participation. She teaches at University of Texas at Austin.

Callum Siegmund

Callum Siegmund is a bio/nano-artist and resident at SymbioticA since 2020, creating DNA nanosculptures using nanotechnologies like DNA Origami. His work uses humor and satire to critique bio and nanotechnology. He studied neuroscience and tissue engineering and collaborated on the award-winning project Bricolage at the 2022 Ars Electronica.

Vlada Oleynik

Vlada Oleynik is a bioart major at ITMO University, working in media, video, and sound art. Recent projects extend towards bioart as in the case of the project bacterial perfume (2024) where she explores body odor and identity.

Terrabytes Glitch Lab

Terrabytes Glitch Lab is a phygital collective of independent artists and researchers dedicated to exploring art, science, technology and nature. Embracing the open-source spirit, we support accessible and shareable innovation, amplifying a collaborative digital network that reflects on bio-life while fostering connectivity within the creative community.

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