Ars Bioarctica program 2015. Call for residency
The Finnish Society of Bioart organizes a residency that has an emphasis on the Arctic environment and art and science collaboration. Deadline: November 14th 2014... READ MORE...
Bio Art
Synthetic Aesthetics. The MIT Press
In this book by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Jane Calvert, Pablo Schyfter, Alistair Elfick and Drew Endy synthetic biologists, artists, designers, social scientists investigate synthetic biology and design... READ MORE...
Bio art and design Award 2014
A call for designers and artists interested in the Life Sciences to propose projects for collaborative work across disciplines. A € 25.000 award for successful applicants... READ MORE...
The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis
The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis is a ground-breaking solo exhibition by artist Anna Dumitriu, showing installations and sculptures made with strains of mycobacteria, transformed historical artefacts, and textiles that our reveal the complexities of the history of Tuberculosis (TB) and our responses to the disease.... READ MORE...
Grow Your Own: life after nature
GROW YOUR OWN… is a new exhibition created by Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin that invites you to consider some of the potentially ground-breaking applications and uncertain implications of synthetic life.... READ MORE...
Biohackers. The Politics of Open Science. Hackers aiming at the conquest of the world of science
What do hackers have to do with BioLabs dealing with DNA mapping and testing new modifications of human life? Biohackers is a book written by Alessandro Delfanti, a scholar who studies the relationships between science and society. He tells us not only that the hacker culture has many things in common with the world of science, but also, in a more fascinating way, that the current transformations of life sciences are and will be even more characterized by a mash-up or remix (by adopting the author's own words) between the traditional scientific culture, the hacker ethics and the open access culture.... READ MORE...
Science Gallery. Call for exhibits: Grow Your Own
The call is looking for works that offer a participative and interactive visitor experience for a broad age range of visitors, especially 15-25. Projects that inform, provoke dialogue and engage audiences about synthetic biology... READ MORE...
Koen Vanmechelen – Leaving Paradise
Leaving Paradise marks the U.S. debut of major works recently created by the internationally renowned Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen, featuring live chickens, sculpture, photography, installation, and video, including Hybridity in Art and Science – C.C.P., the multi media archive module presented at The Worldly House, dOCUMENTA (13).... READ MORE...
Finnish Bioart Society: Ars Bioarctica residency 2013
The residency has an emphasis on the Arctic environment and art and science collaboration. It is is open for artists, scientists and art&science research teams - deadline: 6 April 2013... READ MORE...
Backyard Brains: Neuroscience for Fun
The term Crowdscience (that is, the science of people) has recently become a very popular term. It means that people (a nineteenth-century term that perhaps should be replaced with the term "citizens"), by actively taking part in research, can enable discoveries, that would otherwise not be possible with traditional media – for the mental, computational and economic resources they require. It also assumes that first-person participation in scientific projects is one of the few ways to not be relegated on the sidelines of democracy in a society permeated at all levels by scientific and technological knowledge.... READ MORE...
Dialogues on “Bioart” #1. A conversation with Jens Hauser
In the series Dialogues on “Bioart”, I will speak about these and other issues with curators, artists, cultural workers and other professionals who deal with "Bioart" in different ways and have been working in this field for a number of years. Through these interviews, I not only want to present them and their work, but also to shed light on their various viewpoints on, and relevant experiences with, the issues being addressed in the so-called "Bioart", in order to bring all this into line with the larger context of the analysis of what "Bioart" as well as the connected issues and questions, actually are... READ MORE...
Emergências 2012: Contemporary Art Exhibition. Interview with Marta de Menezes
Marta de Menezes is an artist, making and researching, within the intersection between art and biology. She is the curator of "Emergências", the new media exhibition, taking place in the historic city of Guimarães (in Portugal) and this year the European Capital of Culture.... READ MORE...
AND Festival, a place for new digital culture
AND Festival has been taking place every year since 2009 in Northwest of UK. The programme is developed by Cornerhouse, FACT and folly to present the last tendencies in new cinema, digital culture and art.... READ MORE...
Marta De Menezes. Bio-Art System Analysis
Marta de Menezes has been working now for a decade with biological techniques and materials as her medium, and has often done so in collaboration with scientists, and in particular, with biologists. She is a phd candidate at the University of Leiden, and the artistic director at Ectopia, an experimental art lab in Lisbon. By recently employing the tools of analysis in systems biology to the field of art practice, de Menezes is taking a reflexive and immersive approach to art research. It's one that embraces complexity and could translate into a deeper understanding about the historical development and embedded structures of art and biology related exploration... READ MORE...
Thomas Feuerstein: Bio Deception, The Realization Of An Idea
"What does a bio-tech installation have to do with an exhibition about democracy? By walking through the latest exhibition at Strozzina in Florence, one realizes how disappointing it is to visit a forcedly ""thematic"" exhibition."... READ MORE...
Arte Bio-diversa. Il Pav Di Torino, Tra Ecologia E Transgenesi
Artisti e biologi lavorano fianco a fianco per tentare di dare una risposta concreta a problemi come l'impatto dei cambiamenti climatici sull'ecosistema, la salvaguardia della bio-diversit, la clonazione di esseri viventi. Temi che l'arte prende in carico, non pi rappresentandoli, ma proponendo soluzioni. Se la sopravvivenza dell'ecosistema globale una priorit non solo etica, l'artista, analizzando il nostro rapporto con la biosfera, vuole ricordarci l'intima connessione con essa e la necessit della sua tutela. Ne discutiamo con Piero Gilardi, direttore dell'Art Program del PAV di Torino.... READ MORE...
Koen Vanmechelen. Chickens, Chicks & Experimental Subjects
During the international arts exhibition LIV, International Art Exhibition in Venice, the Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen will install a laboratory at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Loredan, one of Venice most renowned buildings. It is a new stage of the artist's research on fertilization of arts and science, a project that Vanmechelen has been pursuing since the beginning of his career using all sorts of materials and techniques' sculpture, video, photography, multimodal installations, drawing.... READ MORE...
Art & Science A new art movement
Science is changing our world and our lives at an ever increasing rate. But today artists are bringing science out of the laboratory. Once art and science seemed diametrically opposite; but these days some of the most innovative artists are fusing art and science to create a brand new art movement inspired by science. Striving to visualise the invisible and what it must mean to be human in the future, they create images and objects of stunning beauty, redefining the notion of aesthetic and of what is meant by art.... READ MORE...