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Hybrid MaTter: adressing sustanable Art practices through DIY 3D printing with living substrate.

 Hybrid Matter addresses sustainable art practices, concepts of de/industrialization,  local additive manufacturing, and the exploration of hybrid space through  “intermatter” interactions.  It communicates with specific locations, their history, ecology, and possible future through a series of site-specific installations and workshops. These hybridized forms explore the relationship between order and chaos, living and nonliving, through living sculpture. The primary tool of Hybrid Matter is MycoPrinter, a DIY 3D printer built from scratch and scrap.  MycoPrinter is an open-source 3D printer that prints bio substrate ready for inoculation with various fungi, plants, and bacteria, thus combining additive manufacturing with biological tissue to create a living sculpture. 

By disrupting the “precision imperative” imbedded in 3D printing, I propose embracing a random or induced aberration in protocols to witness the creation of the artifact that was started by humans ( loading the model and substrate ),  finished by machine (glitch that builds an array of mistakes piled (literally) upon each other)  and transformed by living organisms. A beautiful one-of-a-kind artwork with potential collaboration between Humans, Non-Human, and the Machine. 

Hybrid Matter organizes workshops to introduce general public to Sustainable Art Practices based on CARE.