Oron Catts
Artist, researcher, designer, and curator
Institute of Advanced Studies · University of Western Australia
- Biological arts
- Tissue culture
- Living technologies
2026 Residency · Shenzhen
The residency community
Residents, visiting curators, and visiting scholars bring distinct artistic, curatorial, and research practices into a shared synthetic biology environment.Research exchange · iSynBio, Shenzhen · 2026
Community directory
Twelve practices in conversation.
The community spans biological arts, digital fabrication, performance, curatorial practice, living materials, ecology, and interactive media. Each profile introduces a distinct way of entering the residency's shared questions.
Residents
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Henry Tan
Artist and artistic director
FREAK Lab Thailand · metaPhorest Japan
- Bioart
- Media art
- Interdisciplinary research
Ong Kian Peng
Media artist and researcher
Assistant Professor · Nanyang Technological University
- Generative systems
- Immersive media
- Ecology
Lolo Ostia
Artist and educator
Parsons School of Design
- Living materials
- Spatial practice
- Synthetic biology
Kawita Vatanajyankur
Contemporary artist
Thailand
- Performance
- Moving image
- Embodied systems
Masato Takemura (TAKE)
Artist, maker, and FabLab director
FabLab Hamamatsu / TAKE-SPACE
- Digital fabrication
- Bioart
- Creative technology
Pongsakorn Wechakarn (Peachiia)
Bio-interface technologist
Biomedical engineering and creative technology
- Bio-interfaces
- Biomedical engineering
- Creative technology
Tomoki Matsumura
Artist
metaPhorest
- Ecosystems
- Embodied research
- Bioart
Nene Koyama
Artist and doctoral researcher
Waseda University
- Art-science
- Non-human relations
- Biological systems
Visiting Curators / Scholars
Joining selected visits, exchanges, and conversations within the residency cycle.
Visiting Curator / Scholar 
Daehyung Lee
Independent curator
Seoul
- Curatorial practice
- Ecology
- Public culture
Visiting Curator / Scholar 
Kate Gu
Associate Curator, Digital Special Projects
M+
- Digital culture
- Curatorial practice
- Public engagement
Visiting Curator / Scholar 
Jürgen Hagler
Media artist, curator, and professor
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria · Ars Electronica
- Animation
- Interactive media
- Curatorial practice
Contact and residency
Enter the shared world of designed life.
Send an expression of interest, browse the iSynBio labs, or begin a conversation with Cross-Media Lab about an artistic research question.
Program team
Chenli Liu
Honorary Director
Zhijie Qiu
Honorary Director
Xiao Yi
Executive Director, Bio
Baoyang Chen
Executive Director, Art
Fangxinzi Chen
Creative Manager