Biomimicry
- Integrating Nature's elegant solutions into the design process
- Dr. Prateep Beed
Biomimicry is a creative method for sustainable innovation and product design in today’s world.
Event category:
Talk
Plan Bienen
- A project by
- Tessa Zettel and Sumugan Sivanesan
With Plan Bienen the artists attempt to make real and speculative connections between two parallel crises – one within European economic systems and the other in honeybee ecologies. Considering Berlin’s development as a multicultural ‘creative’ capital…
SciArt Café
- with Berlin iGEM team
The iGEM Berlin team (http://igem.berlin/) presents their fourth SciArt Café. Under the main theme of “Programming Life – Good Code/ Bad Code?” we will hear scientists and artists working with bioscience and afterwards discuss topics of synthetic biology.
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Nonhuman Subjectivities
- 1000 Handshakes
- François-Joseph Lapointe
As part of the opening of the 2016 transmediale festival of art & digital culture at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Art Laboratory Berlin will present the performance 1000 Handshakes by and with François-Joseph Lapointe.
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There be Dragons
- Human Impact on the environmentally sensitive Galapagos and Lord Howe Islands
- Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger
In the Age of the Anthropocene, this talk will explore how humans impact on our world both by their presence and indirectly by their lifestyle. This is a science-art investigation of tourism and its effects on closed eco systems.
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Nonhuman Subjectivities
- Interdisciplinary Dialogs in the Sciences and Humanities
- Antonia Ulrich and Marie Neuwald
For the closing event of the exhibition On Animals. Cognition, Senses, Play we are pleased to invite you to an interdisciplinary dialog with philosopher Antonia Ulrich and Marie Neuwald from NABU.
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Bio & Beers
- with Biotinkering e.V.
- Dr. Mirela Alister, Rüdiger Trojok, Alessandro Volpato and Biotinkering e.V.
The Bio & Beers format is for everyone: we start with a 20 minutes presentation, followed by discussions while having beers. In addition there will be occasional DIY workshops!
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Nonhuman Subjectivities
- Living Systems | Aquatic Systems
- Robertina Šebjanič, Kat Austen, Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz
In this seminar we want to invite you to theoretically explore these and other aspects about artistic and scientific methodologies on interspecies empathy and human-nonhuman companionship.
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SciArt Café
- with BIOMOD and iGEM Team Berlin
The iGEM Berlin team (http://igem.berlin/) presents their fifth SciArt Café. Under the main theme of “Synthetic Biology – a toolkit for solving humanity’s problems” we will hear scientists and artists working with bioscience and afterwards discuss topics of synthetic biology.
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DIYBio NOW
- DIYBio faire
- Biotinkering e.V.
The three-day bio-fair brings together the players in the Berlin biohacking scene for a series of hands-on workshops, talks and a special exhibition featuring unique DIY laboratory equipment.
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Cellf
- Technosphärenklänge #3
- Guy Ben-Ary
- Presse Feedback
In the work cellF human neurons living in a Petri dish perform duets with human musicians: These are grown into a culture of 100,000 living neurons. Lined with electrodes, these neurons form output via an analog synthesizer, cellF, allowing them to “jam” with human musicians.
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Guy Ben-Ary
- Artist Talk
In his talk Guy Ben-Ary will present some of the methodologies and theories that underpin his artistic practice by using as examples, four of his major projects completed over the last decade: MEART, The Silent Barrage, In-Potentia, and CellF
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Nonhuman Agents
- Gut Feelings
- Alanna Lynch
Alanna Lynch has been growing the microorganisms that produce kombucha tea. Through the process of fermentation this symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeasts (SCOBY) produces a cellulose material that is slimy and smells strongly while wet and can be dried and used as a textile.
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Nonhuman Agents
- Anatomy of an inter-connected system
- Margherita Pevere
Starting point is the artist’s research at the junction of visual arts, theoretical inquiry and investigation of biological processes, focusing on the discourses regarding human-nature relationship in the frame of today’s environmental crisis and how artistic practices…
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Nonhuman Agents
- ill-at-ease seep
- Sarah Hermanutz
In her lecture the artist Sarah Hermanutz discussed the relationship between humans and wetlands, which is the focus in her long-term artistic research. Wetlands are one of the most biologically diverse and important ecosystems for life on earth, but within the past century..
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