NEHIR AY
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Nehir Ay is a post-disciplinary designer, design researcher, and visual artist based in Toronto. Nehir is the founder of Slow and Unreal Research Lab.
Nehir is currently at Concrete.
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HOLOBIONT bacteria type
HOLOBIONT
bacteria type
DESCRIPTION
Holobiont is a term that suggests that multicellular beings (like humans) are made from a plathera of species of bacteria who form relationships (ex: a symbiotic, parasytic, etc.) with other colonies; thus demonstrating that we aren’t really individuals as we think.
To prove that I am a multi-species entity, I sampled bacteria from my own body (from places like inside of my elbow, scalp, etc.) and grew it in typographic forms, spelling out “holobiont”.
I got to observe how the human loses control of the typographic forms once the petri dish lid is closed for good, leaving the rest to the bacterial consciousness.