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Research sharing
Learning to swim like a daphnia
Tomoki shared a developing work with Bai Yang's research group, connecting his history as an elite finswimmer with an artistic attempt to inhabit the movement and scale of a water flea.
Residency community
2026 Resident
Tomoki Matsumura
Artist metaPhorest
Practice
A practice entering a shared research environment.
Tomoki Matsumura develops projects around ecosystems and biological phenomena. Drawing on his experience as a competitive finswimmer, he reconstructs relationships among the body, technology, and more-than-human environments.
- Ecosystems
- Embodied research
- Bioart
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