Yashas Shetty is an Indian contemporary artist. He is most well known for his work with (Art)ScienceBLR and the Indian Sonic Research Organization (ISRO). In 2009 he founded
Hackteria, with the artists Andy Gracie and the biohacker Marc Dusseiller while all three were in residence at
Medialab-Prado
The Medialab Matadero, formerly known as Medialab Prado, is a cultural space and citizen lab in Madrid (Spain). It was created by the Madrid City Council in 2000, growing since then into a leading center for citizen innovation. It follows a partici ...
in Madrid.
He is a faculty member of the
Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology and a founding member of the Center for Experimental Media Art (CEMA). His students have successfully constructed low cost innovation products microscope from webcam, a low speed centrifuge from egg beater and low cost incubator designed from cardboard and have won awards at the
International Genetically Engineered Machine
The iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) competition is a worldwide synthetic biology competition that was initially aimed at undergraduate and 'overgraduate' university students, but has since expanded to include divisions for hig ...
(IGEM) competition.
He is also the host at
The Radio Quarantine, a Bangalore based community radio that ran during the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
lockdown.
References
External links
Official Hackteria websiteOfficial Indian Sonic Research Organization websiteOfficial (Art)ScienceBLR website
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New media artists
Bioartists
International artist groups and collectives
Indian contemporary artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people