#biological robots#artistic automata and mechanisms#tissue engineering#artificial intelligence#electrical and mechanical engineering
ZSJ combines art with technology and science to create cybernetic biological robots. The ground-breaking concept of combining artificial intelligence with neural intelligence (in vitro cell culture) is pushing the boundaries of what is possible for artificial life forms.
Biobot was created to explore the potential of artificial intelligence and its ability to create new forms of expression together with signals from in vitro growing neural cells. It is fascinating to observe the development of a biobot that, although not moving, is full of new life forms, to see a biobot in action and to understand its interaction with its environment. These biobots are, in a manner of speaking, beautiful works of art: a hybrid system of living art.
Zoran Srdić Janežič
lives and works in Ljubljana.
He graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in 2004. He works as a puppet designer at the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre.
His artistic practice is interdisciplinary and involves developing themes at the intersection of art and technology. His works focus on the relationship between the human body, the environment and other manifested life forms. Through his work, the artist redefines their relationships and roles and, above all, revalues them. The basic precepts are both ethical and philosophical in the field of various transhumanist ideas and point to discursive and coexisting environments as a possible future for biotechnological beings.