Human, exploring poetic technologies
I feel like it was just yesterday when Ambalika Khadria, kathask films first spoke to me of her project of love, 49 to 51. At the time it was just a twinkle in her eye and now it’s a full-length documentary bringing artists from all over the world together. I am touched by how warmly
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I made a fictional ad for EAHOMS (earnestly a heart on my sleeve), which featured in the Basel edition of If zine. We used AI to render my designs and capture the somewhat sinister aspects of this tech. It promises connection, but there is a surveillance aspect of it, a self-optimisation aspect of it and
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Earnestly a heart on my sleeve was selected to be featured in Balmly’s open submission for The neuroscience behind cross-disciplinary design alongside many incredible visual essays, exploring . Check out the full magazine here https://readymag.website/u1273881917/6471573/
Mum This is a series of works on mothering. It struck me how silence plays a big part in the work of mothering. ‘Mum’, or the German word ‘Stillen’. But who is quieted, what is silenced? From top to bottom:
Changing Figures Drawing data isn’t unappealing per se, but I find it hard to imagine how to communicate numbers in a non-scientific context. This made me think of how, and to what end we use number and statistics. Data can become numbers and statistics, heavy with urgency but bereft of emotional weight. So what do numbers
And still she moves Why did my body and its movement arouse shame while that of my mind inspire respect? I used the intellect as a fortress of the self over the body because the body wouldn’t titillate as the tits age. My assumptions were the intellect itself is impervious to the changing seasons and
I noticed how Ernst often forms many shapes using his body. I found some DNA nucleotides and decided to spell out some outrageously named protein sequences (or at least a part of them.) Check out EK seq and try it yourself here https://koshika.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ek_seq_v2.html Dancing mutation CCR5d32 In 2018, He Jiankui used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit the
In the lab, I manipulated DNA, cultured cells, ran experiments of all kinds, and collected and analysed data. Somewhere down the line, I realised that what I had perceived as a wall containing the lab was a permeable bidirectional membrane; I had just been ignorant of what passed through it.
