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Tissue_Lab

June 2022 - February 2023
Antalya

Using the collected visual data, Tissue_Lab observed the change in the forest's biological structure following the 2021 fires in Antalya's Manavgat region and produced new textures from the resulting information. Plant and soil samples were collected in order to determine the extent of damage and subsequent renewal following the fires. Utilizing Nvidia's styleGAN AI technology, the artist created hybrid and non-existent tissue samples in the liminal space between life and death.

Ali Kanal

Born in 1988 in Izmir, Ali Kanal studied sculpture at Dokuz Eylül University Fine Arts Department, earning an undergraduate degree in 2015 and a graduate degree in 2022. In addition to being a co-founder at Darağaç Collective in his hometown of Izmir, Kanal continues his bioarchaeological research on the biome of liminal spaces with Tissue_Lab, a project he founded in collaboration with Dilay Kocoğulları.

www.tinyurl.com/alikanal

This page is published on 1 June 2022.
Last update: 7 June 2022

TAGS: BioArt, ANTALYA, art production, artificial intelligence, biodiversity, contemporary art, ecologic art, ecology, environmental rights, found object, tissue

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