Symsagittifera roscoffensis as a main Actor* of The Plant~Animals ~ Symbiosity of Creation

Elvin Flamingo is an artist working in the fields of Bioart and Art&Science. His projects combine art, biology, and technology. His most important project, thus far, is The Symbiosity of Creation, which was the topic of his doctoral thesis. It began in 2012 and is planned to continue to 2034. The work's point of departure is the cultivation of exotic ants. It consists of three parts invoking the themes of destruction and re-creation. The Symbiosity of Creaton received broad national and international coverage and was presented at various exhibitions, including Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark, at the Art&Science Convesations seminar in Kassel, Germany, and at TEDx Between Genres exhibition in Gdynia. It received the Critic's Award at the Media Art Biennale WRO: Test Exposure, Wrocław, Poland, in 2015.

The Symbiosity of Creation is a manifesto, which involves — among others  — the following  points:

• The Symbiosity of Creation is a change in the position of the author from demiurge to participant.
• SC is a shared creation conducted with utter devotion full respect for all participating beings.
• SC lacks the possibility of creating only for the time of exhibition — it is necessary to foresee carefully the future of the work.
• SC is a process in which everything has meaning, both the decisions of the human-artist and the non-humans participating in the process — the decisions of both parties have a creative influence on one and other, and it does not matter which decisions are more important.

Other important works of Elvin Flamingo include • The Language of Stray Bodies, • Self Cells Portrait, • New-Bio-Territories, • We—The Common Body, • After Humans, the Biocorporation, • Reconstruction of Non-human Culture.

In 2021 Elvin Flamingo started to work on Plant~Animals ~ Symbiosity of Creation in cooperation with Xavier Bailly Ph.D, which premiered at the program of Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria in 2021.

Elvin Flamingo (prof. ASP dr hab. Jarosław Czarnecki) is also lecturer at the Faculty of Sculpture and Intermedia of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland and was the Associate Dean of Intermedia (2016-2019).
* the Actor corresponds with the ANT (Actor Network Theory) by Bruno Latour