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Material research
Living colour, silk, and engineered materials
Working with the Zhong Chao and Dai Zhuojun research groups, Lolo explored bacterial pigments, living hydrogels, compact bio-batteries, and the behaviour of colour on silk.
Residency community
2026 Resident
Lolo Ostia
Artist and educator Parsons School of Design
Practice
A practice entering a shared research environment.
Lolo Ostia's research-based practice moves across photography, light, sculptural form, and site-specific installation. Her current work brings synthetic biology into a wider inquiry around endangered ecologies, material knowledge, and cultural memory.
- Living materials
- Spatial practice
- Synthetic biology
Within the residency
Research encounters and developing questions.
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