iBiom is an art group and an imaginary corporation working with the users’ microbiome. Since founding the group in 2019, Anna Prilutskaya, Tata Gorian, Evgeniya Zolotnikova, and Olga Zubova have been structuring iBiom as a multi-series project. In their works, the group reproduce the ideology of the capitalist market, where every individual is a client, every relationship is a service, and every event in the world is an excuse to create a new product.
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The company’s first product was iBiom box. This service asked the user to gather bacteria from their smartphone screen and send them to iBiom, where the data was analysed and turned into personalised solutions for smartphone and life in general
The iBiom team. Like every successful start up, iBiom Inc. began in a garage in 2019
In search of new energy to overcome the fatigue, iBiom West laboratory starts the Energy Hole project, where the scientists research deep bacteria and their ability to survive in conditions of extreme pressure and limited energy
Due to the pandemic, iBiom moved its fatigue-curing laboratories online. Special sessions were held for the Geek Picnic visitors in St Petersburg
In early 2020, iBiom organised the first Four Ways of Saving the World before It Collapses conference. The conference was accompanied with an educational programme presented on the Blizhe (“Closer”) platform
One of the directions of the educational programme was dedicated to game development. iBiom starts working on its game Island, hoping that game mechanics could find the solution for the fatigued world
Educational livestream of the Island videogame on the Blizhe platform. The iBiom team sat with game designer Vasiliy Smetanin to discuss trends in the gaming industry and their own work in progress
In 2020, iBiom develops a new service minimising stress in the post-lockdown world. After long negotiations, the company gets a commission for this “tender service” at the NEMOSKVA exhibition at Manege, St Petersburg
The “tender service” at NEMOSKVA included the work of the cleaning group Microfibre, “tender” audio guide, educational play-based video about personal hygiene, and other stress-reducing measures for the exhibition visitors
Founded in 2021, the Institute of Fatigue opens its first educational programme dedicated to studies in sociovirology. Based on the “borehole logging” method, the programme will let every student delve into research with a variety of approaches
