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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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As part of our last BIO·FICTION on Tour round, we joined a thought-provoking conference organised by the Orient-Institut Istanbul, which gathered interdisciplinary and international perspectives on the topic “Upgrades of Nature, Future Bodies“. Organ being taken from surgical tray for transplant (Electrostabilis Cardium 2013) Invited to contribute to a book…
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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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Our game “Battle for Cattle” will be featured at the European Researchers’ Night (ERN). The ERN takes place across Europe once a year and invites public to get a taste of everyday life of research institutions. This year the event will be held online on 27. November 2020. In addition…
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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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