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DIYBio NOW

DIYBio faire
Biotinkering e.V.

17 - 19 February 2017

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.

event | Performance, Talk, Workshop

Nonhuman Agents

Anatomy of an inter-connected system
Margherita Pevere

15 July 2017

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…

event | Workshop

Phytocracy in situ

Prototyping tools for the investigation of plant governance
Špela Petrič

22 September 2018

As part of the inquiries into Vegetal Otherness, Špela Petrič set out to produce her own phytocracy-revealing onto-epistemological tools that are inspired by actual institutions/domains/cultural practices framing plant-people relations…

event | Conference

The Artist-Silkworm Interface

The Agricultural Treatise as Source and Scrutiny for Creating an Artist Book
Vivan Xu | Lisa Onaga | Dagmar Schäfer | Regine Rapp | Anna Grasskamp | Yubin Shen

4 July 2019

This one-day symposium discusses how the lens of contemporary art can engage with the genre of the agricultural treatises and manuals that have long attracted the attention of scholars in the history of science.

event | Talk

Conversations in Silk

Artist and scholar talk
Vivian Xu and Lisa Onaga

30 June 2019

“Conversations in Silk” presents a dialogue between historian of biology Lisa Onaga and artist and designer Vivian Xu reflecting on the intermingled topics of silk, sericulture, and specultations of the future of the silkworm-human relations within a technoscience framework.

event | Workshop

THE SILKWORM PROJECT Workshop

Vivian Xu

8 June 2019

The Silkworm Project Workshop gives insight into the artistic research and practice by Vivian Xu and offers a hands-on part, based on the artist’s at ALB of the same name. Participants were each given silkworms to take home and raise, hand-reared by the artist in Berlin.

event | Talk

Symbiosis in intra-flux of the Anthropocene

Project Presentation
Saša Spačal

29 November 2019

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.

event | Performance

The Lumenses Project

Florence Razoux

5 January 2020

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.

event | Talk

A Future for Food

Discussion and Livestream
Amy Youngs | Ken Rinaldo | Anna Paltseva | Daniel Lammel | Regine Rapp | Christian de Lutz

4 June 2020

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.

event | Talk

VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo

Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
Walter Waldman

25 November 2020

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.

event | Talk

VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo

Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
Heather Barnett

22 December 2020

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.

event | Talk

VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo

Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
Fara Peluso and Sachiko Hirosue

17 January 2021

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

event | Talk

VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo

Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
Hideo Iwasaki and Matthias Rillig

21 February 2021

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.

DIY Hack the Panke

(Un)Real Ecologies. Microplastics | Workshop
Kat Austen and Joana MacLean

6 - 8 July 2018

How do organisms and inhabitants of the Panke live with plastic in their habitat? In the 3-day workshop we search for visible interactions between plastics and biota in and around the Panke. We also use chemical protocol for the analysis of (micro)plastics in water samples.

event | Workshop

DIY Hack the Panke

(Un)Real Ecologies. Microplastics
Kat Austen and Frithjof Glowinski

13 - 14 April 2019

How do organisms and microorganisms exist with microplastics? We will investigate water samples and will use DIY chemistry methods to separate microplastics from mineral and organic matter, and discover the origins of the plastics they find by creating density columns.