Cynthia Blanchette is a Canadian artist-researcher based in Finland, working as a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Art and Media at Aalto University. Cynthia’s artistic research interests fall into the abject facets of human-microbial-technological evolution. Within her practice she re-evaluates ubiquitous cultural-societal notions of the lived experience through the artistic practices of ideation drawing and painting, artifact collecting, bioart, and textile architecture. Cynthia has a Master of Arts degree in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art with a minor in Textile Design (Aalto University, 2021), and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (University of Saskatchewan, CA, 2014).