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 Hackteria is a web platform and collection on their wiki pages of open source BioArt, biological art projects instigated in February 2009 by Andy Gracie, Marc Dusseiller and Yashas Shetty, after collaboration during the Interactivos?09 Garage ...

, with the artists Andy Gracie and the biohacker Marc Dusseiller while all three were in residence at

Medialab-Prado The Medialab-Prado, sometimes abbreviated MLP, 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 participatory ap ...

in Madrid. He is a faculty member of the

Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, formerly known as Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology (Srishti), is a premier multi-disciplinary approach design school established in 1996 by Geeta Narayanan under the Ujwal ...

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 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition is a worldwide synthetic biology competition that was initially aimed at undergraduate university students, but has since expanded to include divisions for high school students ...

(IGEM) competition. He is also the host at The Radio Quarantine, a Bangalore based community radio that ran during the

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lockdown.

References

External links

Official Hackteria website

Official Indian Sonic Research Organization website

Official (Art)ScienceBLR website
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