Sneha Solanki

Sneha Solanki
Born	Leicester
Occupation(s)	Artist and Educater
Website	http://www.electronicartist.net/

Sneha Solanki (born 1973, Leicester) is an artist and educator. Her practice includes citizen science, performance, sound and installation.

Early Life

Born to parents from an Indian heritage in Leicester - her father was born in Kenya and her mother in Navsari, Gujarat, India. Initially Snehas father was refused entry into the U.K despite holding a British passport and born under British imperial Rule in Kenya. He was later admitted into the UK. Both maternal and paternal grandparents lived and work under British colonial rule in India, Iraq, Kenya and Mauritius. Her parents in the UK both worked in Leicestershire regional manufacturing industries. Sneha has two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. Sneha lived in Leicester until her later teens when she moved to Loughborough, UK to study art, she then moved to Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Groningen, NL and to Dundee, UK to further her education.

Career

Her seminal work The_Lovers (http://electronicartist.net/the-lovers/) has been shown in the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Voivodina, Novi Sad, Brown University Watson Institute, Boston, USA and the Post & Tele Museum, Copenhagen Denmark.

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References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NCL/ArtAndFeminism_2016/Newcastle_Upon_Tyne_City_Library#Upcoming_events WIKIPEDIA-EDIT-A-THON Meetup page

External links

http://www.openmusicarchive.org/projects/index.php?title=Ghost_Trace_Stellar
http://www.1010.co.uk/org/
http://cube-cola.org/ http://www.electronicartist.net/

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Career Solanki hold a BA Hons Fine Art, Northumbria University and a M.Sc Electronic Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design,University of Dundee, UK.

Sneha is an artist working in digital/technological materiality with live,unstable and emergent forms encompassing art, science and technology. Early advocate of ‘user’ rather than ‘consumer’ of technology Sneha introduced digital arts programmes into museums, specifically the Discovery Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Baltic Art Gallery, Gateshead working with young people, womens, and girls groups on digital imaging, video, net-radio/ streaming media and hand-coding.

Continuing with this thread in her practice, Sneha founded and co-directed Polytechic, an organisation working with a hands-on, open and distributed approach to art & technology where she produced, curated and led a range of national and international activity between 2002-2012 including-

Ecologies programme curator with Ghost Trace Stellar, Open Music Archive (http://www.openmusicarchive.org/projects/index.php?title=Ghost_Trace_Stellar), Spectral Ecologies with Martin Howse (http://www.1010.co.uk/org/) and the Bio Art Lab, 2010; Grow your own Media Lab with Access Space (http://access-space.org/), Sheffield UK and the open source Cube Cola Lab with Kayle Brandon and Kate Rich (http:// http://cube-cola.org/).

Solanki also worked in collaboration with artist Kate Rich (Bureau of Inverse Technology- http://bureauit.org/ & Feral Trade- http://www.feraltrade.org/) for a number of years as Hostexe and supermodem, producing audio hospitality events and the first net-casting/net-radio project Flat of Culture (2001) in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Her seminal work- ‘The_Lovers’ (http://electronicartist.net/the-lovers/) has shown in the Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, The Museum of Modern Art, Novi Sad, Brown University Watson Institute, Boston, USA and the Post & Tele Museum, Copenhagen DK.

Her later artworks include ‘Field Recordings’- a spectral tour of military communications, ‘Analogue is not Digital’- the death of analogue television and 'Super-natural' a synthetic biology artwork which makes a connection between two points in time, the peak in witchcraft from the cusp of the enlightenment period in Western history and the emergent molecular technologies in our current time. Sneha synthesized 'Tituba' a slave and the central protagonist from the Salem witchcraft trials into a new and unique chemically engineered bio-synthetic entity. 'Tituba' was designed as a sensor from circular plasmid vectors and inserts, she was ligated, digested, cloned initially into e-coli DH5 ∂ and then finally transformed into the AmyE gene of Bacillus Subtilis 168 with a two-component regulatory system for sending and receiving signals. She excretes fluorescent protein under stress and is only visible under blue ultra-violet light, otherwise she is invisible. The organism Tituba' is currently in deep cryo freeze at -80ºc, Centre for Cell Biology, Newcastle University, UK.

Sneha teaches at Newcastle University as a visiting lecturer.

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Personal life Solanki has two daughters- Rasa (b 09.04.09) & Sona (25.08.13)

Contact Information sneha@electronicartist.net 07951547588

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Do you have a photo of this inspiring women? Yes, its CC.

External links / references

Work in Publications

Acoustic.space #7. RIXC & MPLab, Riga, LV. 2008. pg. 260 - 261. http://rixc.lv/kiosks/index.php?obj_id=1008&

Reclaiming the Nostalgia of kitchen science - exhibition and work in publication Open_sauces, ed M. Kuzmanovic, Foam, BE. 2010. pg. 42-43. http://lib.fo.am/open_sauces/open_sauces_2008

Dead History, Live Art? Spectacle, Subjectivity and Subversion in Visual Culture since the 1960s. In: Interaction/Participation: Disembodied performance in new media art. Jonathan Harris (ed.) Tate Liverpool Critical Forum, Volume 9. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press & Tate Liverpool. 2007. pg. 251. http://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/60080

The Virtual Artaud: Computer Virus As Performance Art. J. Farman in ‘Techknowledgies: New Imaginaries in the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences’. M. Valentis (ed) Cambridge Scholars Press. 2007, pg. 160 – 161. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/techknowledgies-18

Infection as Communication. A. Ludovico. Neural, Issue 22 English edition. 2005, pg. 37. http://neural.it/2002/06/infection-as-communication/

Artwork/Project References:

Super-Natural- exhibition Biomediations. Transitio_MX05 'Biomediations', Mexico City, MX http://transitiomx.net/muestra_en.php?id=93

Super-Natural- exhibition AV Festival Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/2012/events-and-exhibitions/sneha-solanki

Field Recordings & Blindspot- exhibition Spectropia- Riga, Latvia http://rixc.lv/08/en/exhibition/artists.html

The Lovers Digital Craft http://www.digitalcraft.org/iloveyou/lovers.htm

The Lovers- Presentation Viral Anxieties in Art and Antiviral Technology, Dr Kim Knight, The University of Texas Dallas, 2015 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2015/10/28-31763_EMAC-Professor-Kim-Knight-to-Kick-Off-Viruses-Vect_story-sidebar.html?WT.mc_id=NewsRSS

Bio / info on the following links- http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/2012/events-and-exhibitions/sneha-solanki http://research.ncl.ac.uk/connectingprinciple/bios/snehasolanki.htm http://libarynth.org/os_reader_p4 http://www.cultivationfield.org/artists/sneha-solanki http://amino.org.uk/navigate/sneha.html

These sites mentions my collaboration with Kate Rich here but as supermodem (we also worked as hostexe) http://www.ambienttv.net/footprints/book/02medosch.html http://www.ambienttv.net/2001/broadbandit/pix/credits.html

Other places where my work is referred to in either publications, catalogues or online- http://balticplus.uk/?search=sneha+solanki