Residency community

2026 Resident

Nene Koyama

Artist and doctoral researcher Waseda University
Portrait of artist and doctoral researcher Nene Koyama

A practice entering a shared research environment.

Nene Koyama works across scales from outer space to DNA. Her interdisciplinary practice explores relationships between humans and non-humans through sustained encounters between scientific and artistic methods.

  • Art-science
  • Non-human relations
  • Biological systems

Research encounters and developing questions.

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Research orientation

From research infrastructure to artistic questions

Nene joined an introduction to iSynBio research with Tomoki Matsumura and Kawita Vatanajyankur, beginning a shared conversation around scale, biological agency, and public interpretation.

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