MATTER OF FLUX
- Festival
- Women/ FLINTA* in Art, Science and Technology
The 4-day festival MATTER OF FLUX presents a rich and varied program from and for women/ FLINTA* in art, science and technology with panel discussions, lecture performances, numerous workshops, reading groups and other activities, including artist studio and lab visits. The festival has been generously supported by Kunstfonds’ program Neustart Kultur and is in cooperation with FEMeeting. Read more
Event | Open Call
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Reading Group UNBORN0x9
- OPEN CALL | Reading Group ULTRASOUND, with Julie Roberts
This is an OPEN CALL: In context of our new series PERMEABLE BODIES, Art Laboratory Berlin launches a series of online reading groups as fork-out project of UNBORN0x9 showing in the exhibition Matter of Flux. The second Reading Group ULTRASOUND will be lead by Dr Julie Roberts.
Initiated by Shu Lea Cheang and Ewen Chardronnet with Future Baby Production, UNBORN0x9 reflects on the techno-scientific developments in obstetrical medicine, its social, cultural, philosophical and prospective implications and to offer an artistic view of the science in the making. During 2021-2022, UNBORN0x9 was part of the EU platform ART4MED.eu, which focuses on a methodological framework that fosters collaboration between artists, health and biomedical researchers. The online reading group aims to enable cross-border knowledge exchange – across nations, races, genders, real and virtual borders. For the studies in three specific topics – Ultrasound, Ectogenesis, Surrogacy, the online web platform incorporates reading materials, co-writing pads and online chats as multiple interface entries. Guided by a LEADER with 10 registered READERS, the online reading group aims for in-depth research/studies and motivates public debate on these topics of concern.
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Event | CLUB Night
MATTER OF FLUX
- CLUB Night
- With the OCTOPUSSYNTRIC Collective and DJ Sets by Mieko Suzuki & Baby Vulture (a.k.a. Daniela Huerta)
Art Laboratory Berlin hosts the MATTER OF FLUX_CLUB Night at Panke Club during the Matter of Flux Festival (15 – 18 June 2023). The women FLINTA* only party starts with the OCTOPUSSYNTRIC performance, which is based on a 2-day long workshop of the same title that will have taken place on 15 and 16 June 2023 at the MATTER OF FLUX Festival. OCTOPUSSYNTRIC is a theoretical and practical laboratory to develop an electronic device that enables the participants to interconnect with each other and expand their sensorial abilities through electro-symbiosis. After the performance, Mieko Suzuki and Baby Vulture (a.k.a Daniela Huerta) will take over the DJ deck throughout the night. Mieko Suzuki is a sound artist, composer and DJ born in Hiroshima and based in Berlin. She deals with time and space as her primal matter. Born in Mexico, Daniela Huerta is a multimedia artist and sound designer based in Berlin. She has developed her own multi-layered and eclectic form of DJing under the moniker Baby Vulture. Read more
Event | Reading Club
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Reading Group UNBORN0x9
- Live-Performance | Reading Group ECTOGENESIS, with Elizabeth Chloe Romanis
In context of our new series PERMEABLE BODIES, Art Laboratory Berlin invites to a livestream performance of the Reading group ECTOGENESIS, which is a fork-out project of UNBORN0x9, shown in the current exhibition Matter of Flux. Initiated by Shu Lea Cheang and Ewen Chardronnet with Future Baby Production, UNBORN0x9 reflects on the techno-scientific developments in obstetrical medicine, its social, cultural, philosophical and prospective implications and to offer an artistic view of the science in the making. During 2021-2022, UNBORN0x9 was part of the EU platform ART4MED.eu, which focuses on a methodological framework that fosters collaboration between artists, health and biomedical researchers. The online reading group aims to enable cross-border knowledge exchange – across nations, races, genders, real and virtual borders. For the studies in three specific topics – Ultrasound, Ectogenesis, Surrogacy, the online web platform incorporates reading materials, co-writing pads and online chats as multiple interface entries. Guided by a LEADER with 10 registered READERS, the online reading group aims for in-depth research/studies and motivates public debate on these topics of concern. Read more
Event | Talk
PERMEABLE BODIES
- In Extraterrestrial Space, All Bodies Are Trans Bodies
- Artist Talk | With Adriana Knouf
Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to our new series Permeable Bodies with artistic and feminist explorations of embodiment and identity in flux, as well as an investigation of our interconnection and interaction with the environment around us. Through references to her own artwork, scientific research, and speculative fiction, artist Adriana Knouf will show in her artist talk how we must embrace our existence within the unsettling domain of being constantly in-transition and the new affordances that that domain provides. Knouf argues that bodies exist in a state of constant transition: growth, death, transformation, renewal. Read more
Event | Series of Events
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Program Overview
- A Series of Reading Groups, Talks, Workshops and Podcasts
Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to our new series Permeable Bodies with artistic and feminist explorations of embodiment and identity in flux, as well as an investigation of our interconnection and interaction with the environment around us. With reading groups, talks, workshops and podcasts we propose a net of narratives of permeability to encompass a poetic (post)natural history of being woman throughout 2023. The events discuss different notions of permeability approached through artistic, medical, sociopolitical and phenomenological perspectives. Read more
Event | Open Call
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Reading Group UNBORN0x9
- OPEN CALL | Reading Group ECTOGENESIS, with Elizabeth Chloe Romanis
This is an OPEN CALL: In context of our new series PERMEABLE BODIES, Art Laboratory Berlin launches a series of online reading groups as fork-out project of UNBORN0x9 showing in the exhibition Matter of Flux. The first Reading Group ECTOGENESIS will be lead by Dr Elizabeth Chloe Romanis.
Initiated by Shu Lea Cheang and Ewen Chardronnet with Future Baby Production, UNBORN0x9 reflects on the techno-scientific developments in obstetrical medicine, its social, cultural, philosophical and prospective implications and to offer an artistic view of the science in the making. During 2021-2022, UNBORN0x9 was part of the EU platform ART4MED.eu, which focuses on a methodological framework that fosters collaboration between artists, health and biomedical researchers. The online reading group aims to enable cross-border knowledge exchange – across nations, races, genders, real and virtual borders. For the studies in three specific topics – Ultrasound, Ectogenesis, Surrogacy, the online web platform incorporates reading materials, co-writing pads and online chats as multiple interface entries. Guided by a LEADER with 10 registered READERS, the online reading group aims for in-depth research/studies and motivates public debate on these topics of concern.
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Event | Talk
Vicious Cycle
- Artistic Research on Climate Crisis
- Artist Talk | With Sybille Neumeyer
On 23 April 2023, Art Laboratory Berlin presents an artist talk with Sybille Neumeyer about her work souvenirs entomologiques #1: odonata/ weathering data in the framework of the exhibition Vicious Cycle. The work is a single-channel speculative video essay and installation by Sybille Neumeyer, that explores the entanglements of humans, weather and insects in a data-driven world in times of climate crisis. It follows dragonflies on multiple scales through time and space: from their geological past into uncertain futures, from ecosystems to museum collections, from embodied weather worlds into detached data clouds, while multiple insect identities are mediated, shaped and reshaped by co-evolving modes of mapping, monitoring and collecting. Read more
Event | Colloquium
IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Louise Mackenzie and Kathy High
The Colloquium addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past, present or future projects by artists and scholars, curators or editors from the fields of art, science and the humanities. The topics could refer to an art project, a book, text or chapter, a research or exhibition project, a lab experiment, a lecture series, a conference concept or other.
The presentations and exchange will focus on the work-in-progress. Methodological approaches – theoretical or practical – are also of great interest here. While researching, we often tend to shift between practical inquiry and theoretical research, browsing various disciplines. Following the original meaning of colloquium as “speaking together”, we want to provide a platform for exchange and embrace various kinds of work processes which are often not seen or talked about. Read more
Event | Talk
Event | Reading Club
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.
Read moreInspired by…
- Reading Club
- With Guest Artist Gülşah Mursaloğlu
Inspired by… is an event series, a hybrid format derived from reading group and artist talk formats. In each session, an invited artist will choose a specific text or excerpt from a book that was inspirational for the artist’s practice and/or a particular project that the artist will introduce.
The project follows up Tuçe Erel’s Posthumanism Reading Group, organized between 2018-2020. After co-reading and discussing plenty of seminal texts in two years, the club is transforming into a new discussion, presentation and reading program, an online and offline exchange platform in a non-hierarchical and non-institutional infrastructure in the fields of arts, science and technology. Read more
Event | Colloquium
IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Cristin Millett and Cynthia White
The Colloquium addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past, present or future projects by artists and scholars, curators or editors from the fields of art, science and the humanities. The topics could refer to an art project, a book, text or chapter, a research or exhibition project, a lab experiment, a lecture series, a conference concept or other.
The presentations and exchange will focus on the work-in-progress. Methodological approaches – theoretical or practical – are also of great interest here. While researching, we often tend to shift between practical inquiry and theoretical research, browsing various disciplines. Following the original meaning of colloquium as “speaking together”, we want to provide a platform for exchange and embrace various kinds of work processes which are often not seen or talked about. Read more
Event | Call for Help
Solidarity | Earthquake
- We ask for your Solidarity with those effected by the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria
On February 6, a multitude of 7.7 and 7.6 consecutive earthquakes in 9 hours in Kahramanmaraş caused a devastating destructions in Southeast Türkiye and Northern Syria. We are sad and in solidarity with people who lost their families, friends and homes in these disasters and we would like to draw your attention that it is important to support people in need. There are several independent organisations in Türkiye and Syria, which are working in the field and helping people to survive during these harsh winter conditions. Within 9 hours, millions of people became homeless. So every little penny would help to support their current temporary shelters. Here are some organisations to support. The list is collected by Collective Cukurcuma, a close friend to one of our team members, Tuçe Erel.
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Event | Residency, Talk
Echoes from Waterlands
- Presentation of Winter Studio Residencies
- Fara Peluso | Sarah Hermanutz
In connection with their winter studio residencies at Art Laboratory Berlin, artist designer Fara Peluso and artist Sarah Hermanutz will invite the public to learn more about their current artistic practices from 27 to 29 January 2023, with a public conversation on 29 January 2023.
Fara Peluso will share an in-progress prototype for her latest project Tecuitlatl, a collaboration with sound artist Hüma Utku. Tecuitlatl is a hybrid algae sound installation which focuses on how living machines can tell stories of the destruction caused by the current pace of industrialisation around water ecosystems, like the algae bloom that causes aquatic life forms to suffer. Sarah Hermanutz will share notes, sketches, writings, and material fragments of her artistic practice, as well as documentations of past experimentations with water as potent source of movement, life, awe, and deep unease. Read more
Event | Colloquium, Reading Club
In Progress… and Inspired by…
- Colloquium + Reading Group
- A look back at 2022
The Colloquium In Progress… addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past, present or future projects by artists and scholars, curators or editors from the fields of art, science and the humanities. The topics could refer to an art project, a book, text or chapter, a research or exhibition project, a lab experiment, a lecture series, a conference concept or other.
The Reading Club Inspired by… is an event series, a hybrid format derived from reading group and artist talk formats. In each session, an invited artist will choose a specific text or excerpt from a book that was inspirational for the artist’s practice and/or a particular project that the artist will introduce. Read more
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Archive
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
- 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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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
- 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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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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Art Science Swap
- Two Heads Are Better than One
- Nenad Popov
Participants of the workshop are divided in the pairs of one artist and one scientist. Each pair will receive a problem to think about, each using their own method. That is the easy part. Then they are asked to switch roles.
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Mind Blind
- Therapeutic Interventions for Human/Nonhuman Communications
- Sarah Hermanutz
In her performance-lecture Sarah Hermanutz draws upon methods and aesthetics of academic lectures and psychological testing/treatment to engage with the gaps and pains of cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer.
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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…
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Workshop with Anna Dumitriu
- Anna Dumitriu
On this practical and discussion-based workshop participants will begin to learn how to work safely with bacteria as an artistic medium using commonly available supplies. They will start to develop a ‘bacteriocentric’ view of the world…
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Synthetic Biology Workshop
- C-LAB
This workshop, led by Howard Boland, is for artists, designers, DIY biologists, and especially lay people who wish to gain practical experience with the processes and methods in the creation of new life forms, bio-materials and new forms of expression.
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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.
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DIY Bio Lounge
- in cooperation with Rüdiger Trojok
To open our 2014 programme Art Laboratory Berlin will be presenting three days of events on open source biology and micro-organisms organized with Rüdiger Trojok and in connection with the transmediale and CTM festivals
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Current Art Practices on Time and Technology
- Gretta Louw, plan b (Sophia New and Daniel Belasco Rogers) , Igor Štromajer
In connection with the exhibition Controlling_Connectivity by Gretta Louw and the series Time and Technology Art Laboratory Berlin presents an artists’ talk on the theme current art practices on time and technology featuring Gretta Louw and plan b (Sophia New & Daniel Belasco Rogers) as well as the internet artist Igor Štromajer
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Controlling_Connectivity
- Performance
- Gretta Louw
Controlling_Connectivity uses the pervasiveness of internet-based social networking, as well as the obligation and opportunity for constant connection with these platforms as a paradigm for a severe and systematic disruption of normal, socially accepted patterns of life and interpersonal interaction during a self-documented performance.
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Events
- 2007 - 2013
Events organized at and by Art Laboratory Berlin from February 2007 until December 2013
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