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Lab visit
Automation and AI for biology
A visit to Si Tong's research group opened a discussion around automated synthetic biology, high-throughput experimentation, and AI-supported design-build-test-learn workflows.
Residency community
2026 Resident
Ong Kian Peng
Media artist and researcher Assistant Professor ยท Nanyang Technological University
Practice
A practice entering a shared research environment.
Ong Kian Peng works across art, technology, and ecology. His research considers generative systems, immersive media, and more-than-human futures through both artistic practice and teaching.
- Generative systems
- Immersive media
- Ecology
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