I am really happy to announce that we launched a new publication as part of my contribution to the 17th Istanbul Biennial.
Museum of Exhalation is an edited volume that consists of interviews by non-humans. The book includes contributions by Nazlı Pişkin, Vedat Onar, Jake Winiski, Nazlı Arda, Aleksandar Shopov, Marisol de la Cadena, M. Namık Yalçın, Dietmar Offenhuber, Pelin Tan, Chantel White and Eda Hisarlıoğlu. Please stop by at Muze Gazhane during the biennial visit hours (Tuesday-Sunday 10AM-6PM) to grab a free copy at my installation site.
There will be a public book launch event on Sept 15th, 2PM.
New video!
We are releasing a new video “Where Do Gardens Come From?“ in May 2022 with Elii architecture office. This is the extension of our project with for the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial, exploring a new set of ideas as a video essay. Please reach out if you are interested in screening or viewing. (The duration is 16 mins, videography and sound design is by Austin Fisher)
Head of Foundry Engineering at Ecovative
New year, new responsibilities. Happy to announce that I started to work with Ecovative to develop next generation mycelium-based products. Ecovative has teams of artists, designers, engineers, scientists working together on difficult challenges to bring products—from meat alternatives to leather—into market.
Featured at the Articulate Show
It was a great pleasure to be hosted by Jim Cotter for the 8th season of the Articulate Show. Special thanks to everyone who has worked on the feature.
A New Patent!
I am happy to share that our patent System, method, and device for high-throughput, automated culturing of genetically modified organisms is finally granted. This has been a collaboration with Karen Hogan and Mike Hogan, and laid the foundations of our work at Biorealize.