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Victor de Lorenzo (CSIC, Spain) and Markus Schmidt (Biofaction) published a review about the potential of Do-it-yourself Biology (DIYBio) in the journal Microbial Biotechnology. The article highlights the potential of for innovation, but also explores the many other implications of this movement. Democratization of the technology, social innovation, empowerment, education and…
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The original BIO·FICTION Film Festival took place in Vienna from 23-25th October, 2014. Thereafter, we sent the festival on the road to other places around the world. In total, BIO·FICTION on Tour took place in 35 locations worldwide, from huge urban cities to far out places such as the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica. Please find…
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We are happy to see our former Artist in Residence Orkan Telhan’s work in the Wetware: Art | Agency Animation catalogue, documenting the exhibition which took place last year at the Beall Center for Art + Technology, California. The exhibition catalogue features his Microbial Design Studio, an automated biolab to design, culture and test…
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We have recently received a copy of the annual VIENNA DESIGN WEEK REVIEW and are happy to share with you a glimpse inside the book, featuring a summary of Biofaction’s mini exhibition ‘Possible Tomorrows‘ during last year’s Vienna Design Week:
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Our Call for an Artist in Residence raised a lot of interest within the art-science community worldwide. Our jury panel had the difficult task of selecting from 80 applications from 29 countries. A jury panel, composed of members of the BIOPROCESS LABORATORY, BIOFACTION as well as an independent art curator,…
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We released a new documentary film about the international research and innovation project BACHBERRY that searched for valuable substances in plants, particularly berries, that could be beneficial for health and other useful applications. We travelled to the experimental Vavilov research station in St. Petersburg, Russia; visited the biochemical analysts at…
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at BIOPROCESS LABORATORY, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland in collaboration with BIOFACTION, Vienna CALL FOR ARTIST IN RESIDENCE The Bioprocess Laboratory (BPL), ETH Zürich in Basel, Switzerland – in collaboration with Biofaction, Vienna, Austria – is inviting applications for a four to six week long artist in residency during 2017. As…
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View below the print version of Possible Tomorrow‘s press coverage in Die Presse or click HERE to view the PDF.
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POSSIBLE TOMORROWS an exhibition curated and produced by Biofaction during Vienna Design Week Possible Tomorrows introduces a selection of experimental and technical design applications hatched from the fields of biotechnology and synthetic biology. Selected designers/artists contribute speculative applications and ideas for the future, as well as already tested implementations…
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VICE Magazine did an interview with Biofaction’s CEO Markus Schmidt on the BIO·FICTION Science Art and Film Festival (in Dutch). Click image below to be forwarded to the online interview.
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