Neon Biotope is a living artwork that investigates the affective and ecological reciprocation between neon light and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a model organism widely used in biological research. By utilizing neon light for its affectual, sensory qualities rather than semantic or semiotic ones, the work establishes a cybernetic system where the spectral properties of neon – tuned to the algae’s photosynthetic preferences – become its lifesource. This system probes the organism’s biological response to specific light spectra, and repositions neon as an active participant in a multiplicitous assemblage of technology and life. Through this interdisciplinary convergence, this sculpture recontextualizes neon light for a biocentric future and proposes new methodologies for engaging with luminous media.
Angelina Almukhametova (b. Kazan, Russia) is a US-based transdisciplinary artist whose research engages cybernetics, techno-culture, and the interplay of digital and analog systems. Almukhametova works across performance, installation, and sculpture to create autonomous, indeterminate systems that respond to site and context. Almukhametova's current research examines neon beyond semiotic and figurative forms, to affirm the medium’s material agency within cultural and aesthetic assemblages and to discover its affective impact on human and non-human sense apparatuses. This research in effect aims to confront conventional modes of artistic engagement with light media.
Almukhametova holds a BFA in Art & Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited and performed work internationally, and has presented her research at SGMK Hackteria (CH), BioFeral.BeachCamp (GR), FEMeeting 2023 (US), Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence 2023 (MT), Experimental Sound Studio, and the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum (US), among others.
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