AvantGarden: Biome 0 (Synthetic Wellness Ministry)
A series of digital images, audio-visual artworks, and soundscapes
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3D Sculpting and Rendering, AI Generative Image Processing, Sound Compositions: Tanja Vujinovic
Production: Tanja Vujinovic / Ultramono, 2025-ongoing.
Consulting:
Cecilia Zeng, Software Engineer, Ultramono Studio Assistant
Mika Pi, Software Engineer
Ultramono community
AvantGarden: Biome 0 (Synthetic Wellness Ministry)
Synthetic Wellness Ministry marked the initial phase of AVANTGARDEN: BIOMES, operating as a satirical critique of optimization culture through imagery of performative care, hyper-polished surfaces, and cosmetic interventions.
AvantGarden: Biome 0 (Synthetic Wellness Ministry) rewires the idea of care through a pop-surreal, techno-charged lens. It operates like a malfunctioning digital spa where neural recalibration, cosmetic exaggeration, and synthetic pleasure blur into one experimental system. Bodies become prototypes in permanent beta — tuned, stretched, and remixed through engineered frequencies and artificial touch.
This Ministry doesn’t heal; it modulates. It floods you with ASMR pulses, micro-ultrasound ripples, granular beats, avatar whispers, sugary glitches, and hyper-designed sonic textures that mimic serenity while short-circuiting it. Light, data, and vibration behave like mischievous technicians performing absurd rejuvenation rituals — joined by toy-like organisms, synthetic plants, and emoji-creatures acting as auxiliary “wellness staff,” each delivering their own exaggerated cosmetic and wellbeing interventions.
The result is a bright, uncanny wellness theatre — euphoric, confrontational, and playfully outrageous — exposing the surreal logic of wellness culture by amplifying it into a glossy hyper-pop delirium.