Tosca Terán, aka Nanotopia (she/they), is an interdisciplinary artist whose work fuses bioart, sound, and immersive technology to explore speculative futures and more-than-human ways of being. Born in San Francisco and based in Canada since 2001, Tosca’s practice bridges science and art through direct collaboration with nonhuman organisms, particularly fungal Mycelium.
Her work has been featured at Ars Electronica, MOCA Toronto, the Ontario Science Centre, Vector Festival, NAISA, Raindance and the Venice Film Festival Immersive, where her XR installation Symbiosis-Dysbiosis: Sentience held 36 sold-out performances in 2024. She is a recipient of numerous grants and residencies from the Canada Council for the Arts, Goethe-Institut Montreal, BigCi Australia, and SUNY Buffalo’s Coalesce Centre for Biological Art, where she’s part of the Genome, Environment, Microbiome (GEM) community.
As an invited art director and tutor for the Venice Biennale Cinema College VR, Tosca continues pushing the boundaries of immersive storytelling, developing XR experiences that challenge anthropocentric perspectives and offer deeply sensory, interconnected, and ecologically attuned encounters.
