Why UNRVL

I studied nutrition in my undergrad. While doing so, I worked at a workshop and learned silk screen printing along with other craft methods. Writing my thesis on feminism and vegetarianism, opened a way of consciousness to intersectional feminism and after that I started to think my skills and interests in an anti-disciplinary way.

Unravel the Code might be the most exciting class I'm taking at MICA, due to its interdisciplinary nature. I value traditional crafts at the heart of my making and combining these techniques with emerging technologies sound exhilarating to me.

I am very interested in speculative realism and object-oriented ontology as a school of philosophy, microbiology and biology makes up the body of the questions I ask for my project and abstractionist expressionism is the key to the aesthetic value of the work I want to produce. I don't know the outcome of my project yet, but I am very excited to work within the synthetic biology realm and continue produce a body of work at the conjunction of philosophy, food, psychology and neuroscience.

I am inspired by Donna Haraway in thinking a new world, where the boundaries between human and non-human entities disappear and a new way of coexistence evolves. I draw from ecofeminism in articulating my desires while producing work.

Couple of research ideas come to mind:

• Can I simulate the effects of fermentation in the gut-brain axis?
• Are fermented foods capable of battling depression and anxiety?
• What is the role of artificial sugar in our microbiota and indirectly, mental health?
• Can I create an interactive/kinetic game to show the relationship of gut-brain axis?

My desired research areas:

• Neuroscience
• Philosophy
• Food/psychology relationship
• Kinetics/soft robotics
• Speculative realism
• Design fiction

My inspirational figures:

• Graham Harman
• Anni Albers
• Donna Haraway
• Martin Heidegger
• Ian Bogost
• Johanna Schmeer
• Joi Ito
• Ani Liu
• Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen

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