The multiple award winning art and research platform Art Laboratory Berlin (ALB) presents interdisciplinary art projects in an international context. Our main goal is the presentation, research, publication and mediation of contemporary art at the interface of art, science and technology.
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+++++++ Visit our current group show Hackers, Makers, Thinkers until 10 July 2022! +++++++ And check out our international conference of the same name including the video-recording of the livestream! +++++++ On 7 July there will be the performance Holobiont: Relics from the Revolution | Cyanotoxic Romance with Cammack Lindsey – welcome! +++++++ And before our summer break we will have a Colloquium session on 12 July (hybrid!) with curator Daphne Dragona and artist researcher WhiteFeather Hunter! Join us! +++++++
Current
HACKERS, MAKERS, THINKERS
- Collective Experiments in Social Fermenting
- Irene Agrivina | Interspecifics | Pei-Ying Lin | Cammack Lindsey | Constanza Piña Pardo | Rice Brewing Sisters Club
The project series will combine artists from Latin America and Southeast Asia with Berlin based artists. In group exhibition, workshops, performances we propose art making as a tool for social empowerment and knowledge acquisition, collaboration, and working together.
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HACKERS, MAKERS, THINKERS
- Holobiont: Relics from the Revolution | Cyanotoxic Romance
- Performance | Cammack Lindsey, featuring Hanita Firoozmand
The performance features excerpts of compositions from Cyanotoxic Romance, a multi-species musical theater piece centered on love and relationships in times of precarity that further imagines the symbiosis between an intersectional working class and toxic cyanobacteria (known as blue-green algae) in the midst of revolution.
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IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Daphne Dragona and WhiteFeather Hunter
The Colloquium addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past, present or future projects by artists, scholars, curators or editors from the fields of art, science and the humanities, focussing on the work-in-progress.
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Mind the Fungi
- Book Publication | TU Berlin University Press
The project Mind the Fungi is a Citizen Science STEAM research project, which resulted from the cooperation of the Departments of Applied and Molecular Microbiology and Bioprocess Engineering of the TU Berlin and the art and research platform Art Laboratory Berlin. The scientific and artistic paths in the project Mind the Fungi, which we followed together with the public from 2018 to 2020, including the Art & Design Residencies, can now be traced in text and images in this book. It was intended to provide citizens with an opportunity for scientific collaboration in fungal biotechnology.
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DIY Hack the Panke
- Art + Science Research Project
The art science group DIY Hack the Panke aims to explore the Panke river for living organisms and critically examine its complex history of human use. We offer public workshops on topics such as river flora, fauna and microbiology; bio matter as artistic research; microplastics and more.
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Mind the Fungi
- Art + Science Research Project
The project Mind the Fungi is dedicated to the research of local mushrooms and current fungal biotechnology expanding scientific research with artistic and design-based research and citizen science. The aim is to develop new ideas and technologies for mushroom and lichen-based materials.
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