Publication in Nature Communications
Lei Pei and Markus Schmidt from Biofaction, together with Michele Garfinkel from EMBO, recently published a paper in Nature Communications titled Bottlenecks and opportunities for synthetic biology biosafety standards. The article is open access:...
Traces of Fluorine and Dryland Projections
We are excited to be exhibiting once again at Museon, a museum of science and culture based in The Hague (the Netherlands)! Within their permanent "One Planet" exhibition we had the opportunity to create two new installations, each of them connected to one of our...
SinFonia Infographics
We created a new set of infographics for SinFonia, our EC funded research project to produce fluoropolymers in a biological way. The informative slides explain the project's aims, methods and background in a simple and understandable way. Have a look at the whole...
Interview about Neurotechnology in Berliner Zeitung
Berliner Zeitung interviewed Markus Schmidt about Neurotechnology and our ongoing FWF funded project Futurebody. Schmidt shared his views on the future of the human body and explained how humans will continue to merge with...
Grüner Wasserstoff aus Sonnenlicht und Wasser? Neue Materialien für die künstliche Photosynthese
Nach dem Vorbild der Natur erforscht der Sonderforschungsbereich CataLight, wie man die Energie aus dem Sonnenlicht speichern und z.B. für die Erzeugung von solaren Treibstoffen nutzen kann. Ziel der Forscherinnen und Forscher ist es, eine künstliche Membran...
Music from DNA: Creating a SinFonia inside a bacterial cell
PRESS RELEASE If you could listen to the DNA in your genes, how would it sound like? This question stood at the beginning of the groundbreaking collaboration between a musical composer and a microbiologist, and the answer to that question is now online and available...
Life in the Body of the Future
In a recent article of the science magazine Scilog the project FUTUREBODY was presented as the “project of the week”. "Connected brains, mood changes at the touch of a button, digital selves are discussed in an interview with Biofaction’s Markus Schmidt as his...
BIO·FICTION in Helsinki
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...
Body upgrade 2.0
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...
The Art of Antibiotics now available as PDF!
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...
Carbon Futures at the MSU Broad Art Lab
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...
Synthetic Biology and Speculative Bodies
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...