Kuai Shen

Kuai Shen, media artist and ant lover from Ecuador, is currently working on his practice-based PhD at Deakin University, Melbourne. In cooperation with ants, he generates techno-ecological installations and performances that explore the concept of invertebrate aesthesis, problematising the entanglement between nonhuman subjectivity and scientific objectivity. His research has been published in journals such as Society & Animals and Acoustic Space and in the book Biologically-Inspired Computing for the Arts (ed. Anna Ursyn, IGI Global, 2012). His work has been exhibited at a number of international venues and has received several awards: the 2016 Bridge Stipend from Michigan State University, the 2014 Cynetart Award of the Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture and, in 2013, an honorary mention at Prix Ars Electronica as well as the Edith-Russ-Haus Media Art Prize.