PERMEABLE BODIES
- Reading Group UNBORN0x9
- OPEN CALL | Reading Group ECTOGENESIS, with Elizabeth Chloe Romanis

IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Louise Mackenzie and Kathy High


Vicious Cycle
- Artistic Research on Climate Crisis
- Talk | With Cammack Lindsey and Charlotte Schampera


In the framework of the exhibition Vicious Cycle, on 26 March, there is an artist talk of Cammack Lindsey, together with the scientist Charlotte Shampera (TU Berlin, Water Quality Engineering).
Cammack Lindsey’s Wem gehört die Welt? is a site-specific sound installation based on the artist’s ongoing research on Müggelsee Berlin that features Microcystis aeruginosa and Müggelsee water samples in amorph containers in a network in- spired by colony formations of most commonly toxin producing cyanobacterium Microcystis.
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- Reading Club
- With Guest Artist Gülşah Mursaloğlu


IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Cristin Millett and Cynthia White


Solidarity | Earthquake
- We ask for your Solidarity with those effected by the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria

Echoes from Waterlands
- Presentation of Winter Studio Residencies
- Fara Peluso | Sarah Hermanutz

In Progress… and Inspired by…
- Colloquium + Reading Group
- A look back at 2022


PANKE INTERVENTIONS
- Koji Workshop
- Workshop | ink Agop


TERRA XENOBIOTICA OR HOW TO BELONG
- Artist Talk | Saša Spačal


Inspired by…
- Reading Club
- With Guest Artists Interspecifics


PANKE INTERVENTIONS
- Notes on Somatodelia
- Artist Talk | Tad Ermitaño


PANKE INTERVENTIONS
- Algature Workshop
- Workshop | Fara Peluso


IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Saša Spačal and Joana MacLean


Archive


Swarms, Robots and Postnature
- Artist Talk | So Kanno
The exhibition project presents research based artistic positions on swarm behaviour, questioning the traditional concept of “nature” and explores the interface of the biological and the machine. As part of our online program the exhibiting artist So Kanno gives an insight in his artistic research and practice.
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VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo
- Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
- Hideo Iwasaki and Matthias Rillig
Since spring 2020 ALB and BioClub Tokyo have been arranging online meetings between hybrid artists and associates in our respective cities. In our Meeting #13 two scientists talk about art and science collaborations.
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Mind Blind Pathetic Sublime
- Online Performance Lecture
- Sarah Hermanutz
Five years since she presented the lecture-performance “Mind Blind: Therapeutic Interventions for Human/NonHuman Communications” for Transmediale | Vorspiel 2016, artist Sarah Hermanutz revisits the problems of social cognition in this time of isolation and multiple intersecting crises.
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VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo
- Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
- Fara Peluso and Sachiko Hirosue
Since spring 2020 Art Laboratory Berlin and BioClub Tokyo have been arranging online meetings between hybrid artists and associates in our respective cities and beyond. In our 12th meeting we feature presentations by designer and bioartist Fara Peluso and Bioengineer Sachiko Hirosue
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VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo
- Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
- Heather Barnett
Since spring 2020 ALB and BioClub Tokyo have been arranging online meetings between hybrid artists and associates in our respective cities and beyond. Meeting #11 features Heather Barnett on her art and science practice, recent collaborations in Japan, and new projects.
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VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo
- Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
- Walter Waldman
Since spring 2020 ALB and BioClub Tokyo have been arranging online meetings between hybrid artists and associates in our respective cities and beyond. Meeting #11 features Walter Waldman presenting his research on microplastics and ideas for cooperation across disciplines.
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Feminist SF
- Visions of M/otherhood & Reproduction
- Isabel de Sena
This event series as a live Talk Show format pays tribute to the powerful alternative images of mothering we’ve inherited through the pioneering work of feminist Sci-Fi writers, most notably regarding their defiance of conventions on (technological) reproduction.
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THE CAMILLE DIARIES Symposium
- Current Artistic Positions on M/otherhood, Life and Care
The symposium discusses current conditions of our world (environmental changes, gender aspects, biopolitics), an ‘aesthetics of care’ as the basis for inter-species coexistence. The conference brings the exhibiting artists together with researchers from the humanities and natural sciences.
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A Future for Food
- Discussion and Livestream
- Amy Youngs | Ken Rinaldo | Anna Paltseva | Daniel Lammel | Regine Rapp | Christian de Lutz
Can we break away from agricultural practices which are intimately connected to desertification, water and soil pollution, antibiotic resistance, climate change and social and economic inequalities? This discussion considers a sustainable, multispecies perspective to farming.
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Mind the Fungi
- Material Driven Design | Workshop
- Fara Peluso
Based on material driven design methodologies Fara Peluso in this workshop explores possibilities and limits of mycelium-based materials. The participants discuss and work together on growing material, building sculptures, and drawing and cutting patterns on a new material made of biofilm.
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DIY Hack the Panke
- Microplastics and Coexistence | Online Workshop Discussion
- Kat Austen and Joana MacLean
Central to the discussion is the coexistence of microplastics in the environment. Approaching the plastisphere as artists, chemists and biologists, trees and bacteria, humans and particles, we will negotiate together a plan of coexistence with microplastics on this planet.
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Mind the Fungi
- Open Lab Night | Bioprocess Engineering
Scientists will give an insight into the world of lichens and their potential for new natural products is presented. Afterwards, production tools, in particular bioreactors, that are used to reproduce the lichen cultures and their valuable materials, will be presented.
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The Lumenses Project
- Florence Razoux
Artist and scientist Florence Razoux will be presenting the Lumenses Project, a series of creative initiatives that offers a new perspective on menstruation and examine how the taboo that surrounds menstruation impacts society, and especially the biomedical research.
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DIY Hack the Panke
- Science by Doing
- With students from the Gustav-Freytag Schule
The project offered the pupils of the Gustav-Freytag-Schule a wide range of events about the river Panke. Through workshops and visits the art science collective DIY Hack the Panke made it possible for students to artistically explore biology, chemistry, design and ecology.
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Symbiosis in intra-flux of the Anthropocene
- Project Presentation
- Saša Spačal
For the month of November 2019 bio media artist Saša Spačal undertook artistic research at the Rillig Group, Ecology of Plants, Institute of Biology, FU Berlin, addressing pressing societal and environmental issues such as climate crisis and plastic pollution.
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