107th metaPhorest Seminar

Friday, April 11th, 2025, 19:00–21:00

107th metaPhorest Seminar by Nene Koyama

This event will be primarily in Japanese.

For the April 11 metaPhorest Seminar, we are pleased to welcome Nene Koyama, an emerging artist whose practice explores new aesthetic understandings of objects and, in recent years, has developed a distinctive body of work engaging with biomedia.
Although originally trained in the arts, Koyama has recently begun a new phase of creative research within the Synthetic Biology Laboratory led by Professor Takigawa Takinoue at the Institute of Science Tokyo. We are excited to see how her practice will continue to evolve at the intersection of art and biology.
We warmly invite you to join us.

Date and Time/Location

Friday, April 11th, 2025, 19:00–21:00 Waseda University Research Facility for Advanced Biomedical Sciences (TWIns), 3rd Floor, Seminar Room 2 https://maps.app.goo.gl/Wy23SqPPMo3P7V8JA

ONLINE

This seminar can also be held online. Zoom Link

Human Existence from the Perspective of Nonhumans: Art for Cells, DNA, and Extraterrestrials

My work has explored the themes of human existence as viewed from nonhuman perspectives and the relationships between humans and nonhumans.
In this talk, I will introduce a series of projects involving cell culture and DNA as artistic media, including an initiative to send artworks for extraterrestrials to the Moon and an experimental attempt to create “mermaid flesh.” Through these works, I would like to consider how humans might form relationships with nonhuman entities, and how engagement with nonhumans may transform our understanding of what we are.