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In April, our BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival tour stopped for a whole month with various events in Helsinki, where our long-time partners at Bioart Society hosted a series of events. Due to current circumstances, all planned events were moved online, including a panel, online screenings, and small group discussions!…
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Our ongoing FWF funded project Futurebody was featured in the current issue of lookKIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology’s Magazine for Research, Teaching and Innovation! The project explores future interactions of humans and machines through the expanding developments in the field of neurotechnology. LookKit conducted an interesting interview with Christopher Coenen,…
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The art-science booklet “The Art of Antibiotics” about our last residency program is now available in its entirety as a free PDF download. Have a look at the blurb below and, if you want to read more, you can access the full booklet here. “The Art of Antibiotics” is still…
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Our installation “Carbon Futures” is now on show at the MSU Broad Art Lab. The installation was initially part of the exhibition “FUTURE PRESENT: Design in a Time of Urgency”, which was created by Science Gallery Detroit and closed a few months ago. A special edition is now presented at the MSU…
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Our Science Art Film Festival BIO·FICTION is on tour and our next tour stop is Perth! A selection of the neurotech festival films will be screened at the Perth Cultural Centre (Perth, Western Australia) on December 5, 2020 as part of the incredible XR:WA festival. Directly after the screening we…
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We have some exciting news! We collaborated with Museon and produced two new installations for their “One Planet” exhibition. Photo credit: Museon Museon is a family friendly museum of science and culture based in The Hague (the Netherlands). Their permanent exhibition “One Planet” challenges visitors to learn about current global…
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The EC H2020 funded Bioroboost project on standardisation in synthetic biology hosts an online Roundtable on Synthetic Biology and Education. One of the speakers will be Biofaction’s Markus Schmidt, who will be talking about different tools for education, ranging from games to interactive exhibition. It will take place on December…
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This past spring, we opened a call for new Artist in Residence programs for MADONNA (2 residencies), NEWCOTIANA and SINFONIA. We received 166 submissions from 43 countries. The quality of the proposals was outstanding, and we were amazed by the exciting ideas of the artists and how they wanted to tackle the three Synthetic Biology…
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We are very happy to announce that our installation “Carbon Futures” is on display at the Science Gallery Detroit since September 2020. The exhibition “FUTURE PRESENT: Design in a Time of Urgency” deals amongst other things with the impact of technological and environmental developments on society and the different ways…
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Biofaction’s Markus Schmidt, together with Nediljko Budisa and Vladimir Kubyshkin, had the opportunity to edit a special collection for ChemBioChem. The special issue is called “Xenobiology: A Journey towards Parallel Life Forms” and it deals, as the title suggests, with Xenobiology: the science of estranged life forms. Xenobiology uses the genetic…
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