Permeable Bodies
- Performing the Sublime Sea of Co-Mattering
- Online-Talk | With Mary Maggic
Permeable Bodies
- Sticking with the Trouble
- Workshop | With Mary Maggic (on-site!)
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Reading Group UNBORN0x9
- Live-Performance (online) | Reading Group SURROGACY, with Anindita Majumdar
PERMEABLE BODIES
- We’re not Lobsters! Queering, Decolonizing and Hacking Menstruation
- Workshop | With Flo Razoux and Aouefa Amoussouvi
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Explore Menopause: It Could Be the Best Time of Your Life!
- Workshop | With Nicola Hochkeppel
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Program Overview
- A Series of Reading Groups, Talks, Workshops and Podcasts
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Betel Nut. A Cultural Connector among Austronesian-speaking Societies
- Lecture Performance | With Mooni Perry and Hanwen Zhang (AFSAR)
IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Kristina Stallvik and Louise Mackenzie
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Capturing Leakage: Body Flows and Material Investigations
- Workshop | With Karolina Żyniewicz and Charlotte Roschka
Archive


Controlling_ Connectivity
- Ten Years After
- Artists Talk | Gretta Louw, Igor Štromajer
In context of Vorspiel | transmediale 2022 Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to an online-conversation with artists Gretta Louw and Igor Štromajer based on Louw’s radical 10 day online performance at ALB in 2011, a 240-hour durational online intervention. We will now return and discuss online performance and virtual worlds.
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Hackers, Makers, Thinkers
- Curators Talk
- Regine Rapp, Tuçe Erel, Christian de Lutz, Tengal Drilon
As part of “Vorspiel | transmediale” ALB welcomes you to an online talk with the curatorial team of “Hackers, Makers, Thinkers”. This year’s event series will combine Berlin based artists with artists from Latin America and Southeast Asia, proposing art making as a tool for social empowerment and knowledge acquisition, collaboration, and working together.
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Signs of the Times
- Artist Residency
- Karolina Żyniewicz
During her residency at ALB artist Karolina Żyniewicz will use the exhibition space for her new project “Signs of the Times”: After having collecting numerous masks in Berlin, the artists started to interview people and communicate with them about their individual mask experience.
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Under the viral shadow
- Viral Geographies
- Online Talk | Sybille Neumeyer, Karolina Żyniewicz
The event explores the biopolitics in our current age of pandemic. The online discussion welcomes artists Sybille Neumeyer and Karolina Żyniewicz to talk about their artistic research focusing on the virus in general as well as the impact of the current pandemic in their artistic practice.
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Under the viral shadow
- Living with the Virus
- Online Talk | Caitlin Berrigan, WhiteFeather Hunter, Sebastian Cocioba
As we face the prospect of the SarsCov-2 virus becoming endemic for the foreseeable future we ask what does “Living with the Virus” mean for us and individuals and as a society. We have asked three artists working at the borders of art and the life sciences to talk about how viral infection, contagion and potential cure has affected their lives and work.
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Paired Immunity
- Art & Science Talk | Marta de Menezes & Luís Graça
In the talk the artist Marta de Menezes and the scientist Luís Graça will give insights into their collaborative art-science projects, currently on show at Art Laboratory Berlin in the exhibition “Paired Immunity”. In “Immortality for Two”, they questioned the limits and understanding of their identity. In “Anti-Marta” a skin transplant was exchanged between them.
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DIY Hack the Panke
- Walk & Talk
- With members of the art science collective
Members of the collective will meet for a walk along the Panke river, together with the public, to talk about their previous research on the river, its flora, fauna and ecologies. We will also give a preview of our upcoming DIY/ DIWO program for 2022.
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UNDER THE VIRAL SHADOW
- Networks in the Age of Technoscience and Infection
- International Conference (online with livestream)
The online conference (with livestream) explores various networks – biological, cybernetic, and social. It will include presentations by the artists, currently on show at ALB, and guest scholars from art and media theory, biophysics, and computer science, design and culture studies.
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Under the Viral Shadow
- NETworkshop
- Workshop | Sarah Grant & Danja Vasiliev
In this 3-day workshop participants learn low-level networking using only command-line tools and network hardware. In doing so they not only grasp how to create and manipulate computer networks, but how they can be used to manipulate us.
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Under the Viral Shadow
- Plant-to-Plant Protocols
- Workshop | Sarah Grant
The workshop is an unstable network of radios and IR sensor pairs attached to plants. It is a meditation on the aesthetics of data transmission and network disruptions caused by the natural movement of plants in response to light, wind, and other natural conditions.
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Under the Viral Shadow
- AI for Artists
- Workshop | Gene Kogan
AI for Artists Workshop | Gene Kogan Gene Kogan is an artist and a programmer who is interested in generative systems, computer science, and software for creativity and self-expression. He is a collaborator within numerous open-source software projects, and gives workshops and lectures on topics at the intersection of code and art. The workshop will…
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Swarms, Robots and Postnature
- Artist Talk | Sofia Crespo
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 Sofia Crespo will give an insight in her artistic research and practice.
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Swarms, Robots and Postnature
- Artist Talk | Käthe Wenzel
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. Exhibiting artist Käthe Wenzel will give an insight in her artistic research and practice.
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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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