Prototype Nature Book
It took some time, but finally Fraunhofer UMSICHT published the "Prototype Nature" book with achapter about the standardising biology cooking workshop by Günter Seyfried and Markus Schmidt. The book is available as a pdf for free or can be purchased as a hard copy....
BIO·FICTION in PERTH
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....
Carbon Futures and Plant Stories
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...
Online Roundtable: Synthetic Biology and Education
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...
Battle for Cattle at the European Researchers’ Night!
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...
Artists in Residence have been selected!
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...
Carbon Futures at Science Gallery Detroit
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...
Xenobiology: A Journey towards Parallel Life Forms
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,...
AIL*ien Talk between Art and Science: online events June 24 – 26, 2020
We've been invited to participate in an exciting series of online breakfast discussions hosted by the Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, AIL - which is a unique initiative of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. It's designed to bring scientists, artists, designers...
Battle for Cattle at GameDays 2020 online!
We're showcasing our latest game "Battle for Cattle" at GameDays 2020, an international conference on serious games! The event, organised by TU Darmstadt, will be held online on 18 May 2020 and it has a full program with a workshop, a panel discussion and a virtual...
New Articles: Xenobiology & Biological Standards
We’ve collaborated on two new open-access papers that we think will provide you with food for thought: The first, titled “The long journey towards standards for engineering biosystems”, featured in EMBO reports, springs out of an ongoing discussion about adopting...
Call for Artist in Residence
Biofaction is seeking applications for new Artist in Residence programmes for MADONNA, NEWCOTIANA and SINFONIA. As an artist in residence, you will actively engage with scientists working on one of three Synthetic Biology related projects that delve into...