Cyanovisions - Short Film
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After a year in conception and 9 months filming in parts, Tiare Ribeaux and Jody Stillwater are almost done with an iteration of the short film Cyanovisions! It will be shown as part of the Special Exhibition at ISEA (the International Symposium on Electronic Arts) at the Asia Cultural Center in Gwangju, Korea opening in late June. We need support for a final push of post production, animations, colorization and travel costs to help us realize this iteration of this film by June 22nd.
Donations of any amount would be greatly appreciated!
Cyanovisions is a transdisciplinary project combining video and bioart that engages with the tools of biotechnology in order to explore deeper narratives related to human identity, symbioses with other species, and our rapidly changing environment and bodies in an era of climate change. Cyanovisions involves diverse Bay Area artists from the queer community and beyond, and hopes to redefine our perspectives and imagine more symbiotic futures with our planet, other species, and with each other.
Still from Cyanovisions
Still from Cyanovisions
Humans have become so far removed from other species and ecosystems that we've changed our planet’s surfaces and oceans completely. California, the state that we're currently based in, was on fire last year. We’re living in a world that is urgently out of balance. One indicator of our earth out of balance is harmful algal blooms of cyanobacteria, the species that initially gave us life by creating oxygen on our planet billions of years ago, yet now proliferating as toxic blooms globally in rivers and lakes due to human pollutants.
Still from Cyanovisions
Still from Cyanovisions
Humans generate the pollutants that cause inland aggregations of toxic cyanobacteria blooms, yet we also create new life forms through synthetic biology, genetic engineering, and artificial life. What would the future look like if humans and cyanobacteria merged membranes, genes, and metabolisms? Inspired by recent experiments in CRISPR gene editing technologies, Cyanovisions posits potentials for biological hybridity and scientific spiritualities with microbial species that recognize the inextricable relationship of humans to those of other organisms.
Still from Cyanovisions
Still from Cyanovisions
Through short film we will explore these entanglements of humans and cyanobacteria, and in addition, shift perspectives of humans as single entities to symbiotic entities. Through this film, we will reframe the human body as a system in relation with the ecological systems it often impacts.
Still from Cyanovisions
Thank you for helping us to realize this vision, it would not be possible without your support!
Donations of any amount would be greatly appreciated!
Cyanovisions is a transdisciplinary project combining video and bioart that engages with the tools of biotechnology in order to explore deeper narratives related to human identity, symbioses with other species, and our rapidly changing environment and bodies in an era of climate change. Cyanovisions involves diverse Bay Area artists from the queer community and beyond, and hopes to redefine our perspectives and imagine more symbiotic futures with our planet, other species, and with each other.
Still from CyanovisionsStill from CyanovisionsHumans have become so far removed from other species and ecosystems that we've changed our planet’s surfaces and oceans completely. California, the state that we're currently based in, was on fire last year. We’re living in a world that is urgently out of balance. One indicator of our earth out of balance is harmful algal blooms of cyanobacteria, the species that initially gave us life by creating oxygen on our planet billions of years ago, yet now proliferating as toxic blooms globally in rivers and lakes due to human pollutants.
Still from CyanovisionsStill from CyanovisionsHumans generate the pollutants that cause inland aggregations of toxic cyanobacteria blooms, yet we also create new life forms through synthetic biology, genetic engineering, and artificial life. What would the future look like if humans and cyanobacteria merged membranes, genes, and metabolisms? Inspired by recent experiments in CRISPR gene editing technologies, Cyanovisions posits potentials for biological hybridity and scientific spiritualities with microbial species that recognize the inextricable relationship of humans to those of other organisms.
Still from CyanovisionsStill from CyanovisionsThrough short film we will explore these entanglements of humans and cyanobacteria, and in addition, shift perspectives of humans as single entities to symbiotic entities. Through this film, we will reframe the human body as a system in relation with the ecological systems it often impacts.
Still from CyanovisionsThank you for helping us to realize this vision, it would not be possible without your support!
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Tiare Ribeaux
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Oakland, CA