Jun 26, 2018 | announcement, art-science, Creative, News, Publications, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
This is something new and different for us: We’ve published our first art-science booklet! It’s called “The Art of Antibiotics” and it documents the artist in residency program within the EC FP7 funded project SYNPEPTIDE, which aimed to design and test...
Dec 11, 2017 | art-science, Creative, Media, News, Science Communication, Stories, Synthetic Biology
Saturday 9th December, BBC 3 covered the works of our artist in residence Eduardo R. Miranda. Eduardo spent a few weeks as artist in residence of the EU SYNPETIDE project that aimed to design novel synthetic antibiotics. At the University of Regensburg, one of the...
Nov 16, 2017 | art-science, Creative, Science Communication, Serious Games, Synthetic Biology
Much can and has been said about an issue that we face globally today and that endangers human health in a very real way: the problem of ever-increasing antibiotic resistance. But what does this problem actually entail, and how can we make it tangible? What does the...
Nov 3, 2017 | art-science, Creative, event, Events, News, Stories, Synthetic Biology
Biofaction founder Markus Schmidt has been invited to present the insights of our art-science collaborations in Vienna and London in November. ★ Bartlett International Lecture Series. The Bartlett School of Architecture. Living outside the box: the promises and perils...
Jun 9, 2017 | art-science, Events, Film & Video, Media, News, publication, Science Communication, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
Two films produced by BIOFACTION are going to to be screened at two international film festivals. On June 29th 2017 the film “The Berrymakers” will open the 2nd Karlsruhe Science Film Days in Germany. Later in October “Synthetic Biology in...
May 12, 2017 | art-science, Events, Film & Video, project, Uncategorized
We are happy to present a short film about POSSIBLE TOMORROWS, an exhibition we curated during VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2016. Possible Tomorrows introduced a selection of experimental and technical design applications hatched from the fields of biotechnology and synthetic...