Near-Future Heirlooms
Ananda's philosophy of bio-art and design is shaped by the idea of "near-future heirlooms". In this talk, we will go over some of her latest explorations and hybrid fabrication methodologies through her lens of combining ancestral knowledge, contemporary technique, and slow making.
We will cover:
- Explorations in record cutting (and how she recognized it to be a valuable resource in raising money for environmental conservation efforts)
- Honoring life and death in jade carving (the bugs and the humans that were involved).
- Micro-environmental music (crystals as co-composers)
- Ancestral knowledge, contemporary technique, and slow making
About Ananda
Ananda is a practicing an artist and designer who loves to carve jade and is currently attending The University of Tokyo to pursue her research of craft and technology at xlab (Yasuaki Kakehi Laboratory).
She has shown work internationally, received 2nd place for the 2022 Google x Biodesign competition, and is a co-author in the 2022 How to grow (almost) anything: a hybrid distance learning model for global laboratory-based synthetic biology education. She has also published various articles about culinary culture and illustrations of open hardware in MAKE Magazine, Open Hardware Summit, Serviette Magazine, and American Studies.
Her practice has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.
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Info
- The Talk will be in English, slides will also be in Japanese
- Participation is free of cost
- Please join us in person at BioClub Tokyo or online at the BioClub Zoom