Calvin Sangster

Calvin Sangster is an artist & researcher based in Berlin, DE and Nottingham UK. Often reverse engineered by experimenting with the way images and objects are coded; Sangsters’ works take the form of sculpture, installation, design, and collaborative research projects. He is interested in developing new modes of interdisciplinary art practice that encourage dialogue between the fields of art, science and technology.

His work for the Talent Pressure Cooker 2017, Hallucinations, is an ongoing, interdisciplinary-research project exploring post-digital notions of interconnectivity and technological perspectives on biology, ecology and body politics. Calvins’ recent work reflects on modern theories of consciousness as being a controlled hallucination, bringing into question ideas such as real and virtual, natural and synthetic as well as how we receive and process information. The project also explores the inherent anxiety around the scientific or technological, as well as how the internet and technology affects how we think and relate to ourselves or our environment.

Whilst at BioArt Laboratories Calvin has been developing aroma chemical interfaces for prosthetics and wearable technologies. What he exhibited during the Dutch Design Week of 2017 showcases some of his work with human synthetic skin smells. Did you know? For human synthetic skin smells some of the molecules present can be found naturally in – and can be extracted from – the skin of oranges!