Lenka Veselá is a PhD researcher at the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, Czech Republic. Her art-based research practice concerns “synthetic bodies” (bodies emerging by synthesis) and “synthetic bodies of knowledges” (knowledges synthesized across multiple sites). She is an initiator of a collective publication and exhibition project Synthetic Becoming bringing together work by artists, activists, and feminist technoscience practitioners concerned with sympoietic becoming with hormones and hormone-disrupting chemicals. Building on material feminist, new materialist, and posthumanist lines of thought and embracing queer ecological sensibility, the project is a series of critical but hopeful provocations that affirm posthuman mutability and articulate our “synthetic becoming” in ways that facilitate and promote caring relations. In so doing, they allow us to envision and enact hopeful futures as we learn to live well with and despite these peculiar chemical agents. Recent publications include “Hormonal Design: Synthetic Sex Hormones and the Management of Living” and “Artistic Research as Academic Borderlands”.