Science and technology have always been my primary interests.  While my work concentrates on practical and theoretical issues concerning biology, I am also interested in exploring living things through art, philosophy and aesthetics.  I find conceptual work that demands cross-disciplinary thinking to understand relationships in nature highly stimulating and mentally rewarding. Imaginative and intuitive approaches often are complementary and sometimes integral to the definitive aspects of science. Science enables us to explain nature and life. It helps us to make sense of the universe surrounding us. Philosophy gives meaning, and art gives value to our existence.  I get inspired by looking at the diverged shapes and forms of organisms. They all have comparable efficiencies in their own settings. I am sensitive to their harmonious connections and intricacies in ecological coexistences. I think biological properties found in nature are evolutionarily-tested.  Desirable features are the product of a complex and powerful system that has an intrinsic plasticity and mutability, which is mesmerizing. My fascination and inspirations often prompts me to find symbiotic relationships between biology and creative design. From an artistic perspective, I enjoy experimenting with generative and emergent concepts that are fundamental to the complexity of biological systems. I explore these concepts to create visual forms that can intrigue our senses and imagination.

I also realize the importance of art and science across disciplines. Both are naturally connected to our lives. Together, they not only help raising awareness to many issues that concern us, but also help us deal with the seriousness of such issues by lessening fear and increasing resilience and adaptation. Furthermore, scientific and technological advances often track artistic ideas. So, I advocate that science should be an obvious part of our culture, like art, literature and music, providing a source of enjoyment, excitement, and hope. I believe art and science enhance our consciousness. Understanding the harmony in nature and deciphering the inner-workings of biological systems holds the key for finding solutions to grand challenges we face.

Ultimate Interface is an anecdotal depiction of the intersection of biology and technology.  It is an imaginative expression exploring the analogies and metaphors used for biological cells’ and computers’ information processing powers within the context of singularity and biocentrism. 

Just as biological cells are the basic unit of life, computers are the basic unit of the digital world.  Remarkably, flow and processing of data in computers have similarities to how biological cells read environmental cues and generate appropriate responses.  Cells receive signals from their surroundings and process information using integrated networks of chemically reacting molecules within their boundaries.   Computers perform operations on data and process information using integrated circuitries.

It is predicted that advances in algorithmic information processing will eventually bring unification of computing technology with the biological ability to communicate information to and from living systems (singularity).  This intersection purportedly will yield to an integrated process and spread in the universe with maximum level of complexity and consciousness (the Omega point).  However, life and biology remain central to being and reality, and create the universe (biocentrism).

“Future comes from past.  The past is realization of evolutionary moments in the endless journey of cosmic perpetuation.  Is there a philosophical meaning and a final destination for us in this journey?  Perhaps, progression of our intelligent existence and transformative impact of technology is our destiny.  Permeation and unification of our conscious existence with technology may be extraordinary.  Believing in this unification might be the answer we seek for the meaning of our existence and final destiny.  Nevertheless, the universe may indeed be biocentric and perhaps such unification has already happened.  After all, future comes from the past and the past is realization of evolutionary moments in an endless journey of cosmic perpetuation.”

REPEAT...BUT NOT THE SAME

The work addresses one of the startlingly basic qualities in evolution, “repetition”.  The idea is based on how we see the prevalence of repetition in nature. It underscores that repeated themes in nature are integrated in different context with variations. Indeed, one of the defining characteristics of evolution is that replicating organisms are repeated with variations, which are selected according to their fitness and can be correlated with ecological factors. In order not to complicate the visual appeal, variations are represented only with colors.