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Sneha Solanki works across disciplines with emergent, precarious and overlooked forms to produce works and events that utilise open and collaborative methods that engender knowledge. Sneha has made works with bacteria following protocols of the emergent area of Synthetic Biology, from the invisible signals emitted from military bases, with plants, computer viruses and analogue television.
Early career practice arose inline with the infancy of the Internet, leading to digital art, network-based art and net-casting. Later concerned with the ethical and social issues around software and hardware, Sneha co-founded Polytechic, an organisation emphasising an open-source, hands-on distributive approach to art and technology. At polytechnic, Sneha co-directed, produced, curated and managed a range of regional, national and international activity between 2002-2012. Her horizontal approach is sympathetic to all species where they are considered 'natural' or 'lab born' or those somewhere undefined as the virus. Recent work includes fieldwork and research investigating microorganisms found within our food systems- MICRO_FOOD LIBRARY which includes E-NUMBERS v2.0, an additive library on novel food and flavouring producing microorganisms. Previously Sneha has exhibited / performed or produced workshops at: Hospitalfield, Arbroath, UK; Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK; Transitio_MX05', Fonteca Nacional, Mexico City, MX. CCA, Glasgow, UK; ICA, London, UK; Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV; FO.AM, Brussels, BE; The Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, CS; Watson Institute, Boston, USA; Post & Tele Museum, Copenhagen, DK. |