Vivien Roussel is an artist, biomaker, and biomaterials researcher. He explores digital tools, fabrication, and biomaterials in individual and collaborative projects. He is interested in narratives that reveal our connections to technologies and the myths that shape us. He began by questioning modernity through Robinson Crusoe and then ventured into "social sculpture" by co-creating makerspaces and fablabs. While in Shanghai, China, in 2013, he imagined interoperable and invisible artistic activities in the vein of the work of J. Beuys and T. Hirschhorn. In recent years, inspired by techno-aesthetics, he has focused his attention on the living as a technological artifact and as a carrier of new collective meaning (in a world in crisis). He develops biomaterials in collaboration with microbes and machines, rethinking the relationships between life and non-life in the age of biotechnologies and the Anthropocene....