Yashas Shetty
Yashas Shetty is an Indian contemporary artist, biohacker and musician who "creates art, music and musical instruments with scientific materials like biotechnology, visual programming languages and interactive media." He is most well known for his work with ScienceBLR and the Indian Sonic Research Organization. In 2009 he founded Hackteria, with the artists Andy Gracie and the biohacker Marc Dusseiller while all three were in residence at Medialab-Prado in Madrid.
He is a faculty member of the Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology and a founding member of the Center for Experimental Media Art. His students have successfully constructed low cost innovation products microscope from Web cam, a low speed centrifuge from egg beater and low cost incubator designed from cardboard and have won awards at the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition.
