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24 Apr 2013, Waag Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
As part of Waag’s “Do it Together Bio” series, C-LAB was invited to hold a workshop related to our work using synthetic biology. The workshop was held at De Waag, one of the oldest building in Amsterdam and where Rembrandt famously painted The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632). Genetic modification (GM) is an almost inherent feature of synthetic biology practices and an immediate challenge for the workshop since the premises did not hold a GM permit. Thus, our workshop was aimed at highlighting these issues also given that our current work Living Mirror is facing precisely these challenges of publicly exhibiting genetically engineering bacteria as part of our artistic display in the Neth...
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08 08-12 Apr 2013, The Royal Institute of Great Britain, London, UK
Art from Synthetic Biology is the cumulation of a doctoral research using synthetic biology and genetics in art production. As the first public art exhibition featuring living genetically modified microorganisms in the UK, it represents a milestone in bio art practices and highlights the challenges of putting such matter on display. The exhibition was hosted at the Royal Institution of Great Britain with a special evening event held on the 10th of April 2013. Howard Boland spent three years immersed in an independent laboratory practice adopting scientific tools, protocols and methods of synthetic biology. Seven selected works from various stages of his research were shown and highlighted how the practice developed towards an increasingly complex relationship with the material (e.g...
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13 13-14 Mar 2013, Inspace, Edinburgh, Scotland
How do we speak of a ‘thing’ as our understanding of material artefacts increasingly slip into immaterial data? Organised by Maria Grade Godinho and Chris Speed of the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, the Centre for Design Informatics and New Media Scotland, the Evaporation of Things was a symposium accompanied by an exhibition of objects looking at the transient states between data and biological materiality. The two-day conference featured talks by a variety of artists and scientists on the many unknowns, conundrums and discoveries prompted by practices that map and extrapolate data through and from the living. The event was hosted at the University of Edinburgh’s Inspace, a new media laboratory functioning as a platform for both talks and exhibitions...
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06 Dec 2012 15:30-18:00, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
As one of the three recipient of the Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award, Howard Boland & Laura Cinti (C-LAB) are collaborating with FOM-Institute AMOLF, a leading biophysics institute focusing on biomolecular systems, to produce a Living Mirror - an interactive biodisplay that combines magnetic bacteria, electronics and photo manipulation to capture living portraits of individuals. Photo © Waag Society More photos of the Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award from Waag Society's photostream.
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06 06-08 Dec 2012, New Stage of the National Theatre & Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Five years after the first Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences (2007) held in tandem with the Enter 3 festival, the 2012 Mutamorphosis: Tribute to Uncertainty revisited 'art-science-society' themes exploring 'mutant futures'. The conference was organised by Pavel Sedlak (CIANT) along with Pavel Smetana (CIANT), Roger Malina (Leonardo), Louise Bec (CIANT) and Roy Ascott (Planetary Collegium). More photographs here. The conference proved a great place for art-science practitioners and stakeholders to connect or reconnect - such as with those from Mutamorphosis I (2007), Subtle Technologies (2012), Bio Art (2005) & Synthetic Biology (2011) Workshops. Divided into 21 streams, microthemes were put forward by 28 attractors that included Vegetal Sensoria, ...
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03 Dec 2012, Bentham B01 Main Lecture Theatre, UCL, London, UK
UCL's Synthetic Biology Society (SynBioSoc), founded by Phillip Boeing, is a synthetic biology student community based at UCL. Its Kick-off event featured talks by C-LAB's Howard Boland, Dr Chris Barnes, Sean Ward, Tom Folliard, Dr Darren Nesbeth and the award-winning presentation by UCL 2012 iGEM team. Art from Synthetic Biology, by Howard Boland, C-LAB In Howard's research, he asks how artists can appropriate synthetic biology towards art production and discussed the challenges involved in exhibiting such living matter. Introducing Synthace – a synthetic biology startup, by Sean Ward With the introduction of iGEM Entrepreneurship, Sean Ward, a successful entrepreneur of a synthetic biology start-up, provided useful insights into the sort of products and b...
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19 19-22 Nov 2012, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
The annual Re-New Digital Arts Festival (2012) presented a selection of the artworks in digital and bio-cybernetic art with a particular focus on sound-based works. Howard Boland (C-LAB) was invited as an exhibiter and speaker in the accompanying IMAC 2012 Conference themed "Cybernetics revisited - towards a third order?". The intention was to show and discuss the work Stress-o-stat (2011) involving genetically modified bacteria producing light during stress. Unfortunately, a few weeks prior to the festival I was notified that the work was deemed illegal in Denmark (image above). The conference included keynotes speakers Lanfranco Aceti (image above), Andrew Pickering, Paul Thomas and Roy Ascott...
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29 Oct 2012, Kings Place, London, UK
Celebrating the 100th birthday of the American composer John Cage, Cage Rattling #1: Kill Switch was a coming together of themes from biology, anarchistic movements and music to deliberate ideas that expand upon his legacy. The ‘Kill Switch’, a reference taken from synthetic biology whereby it is possible to engineer mechanisms leading to cells’ death, indicates a timed event of entry and exit central to Cage’s method. 50 second excerpt of Howard Boland's (C-LAB) talk. C-LAB participated through an exhibit and talk on synthetic biology in particular by sharing the work Stress-o-stat which operated not only in a sonic context through its allure to a life support system but also in the use of a genetic switch - not to kill but to highlight a change o...
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24 Sep 2012, Grant Museum of Zoology, London, UK
Risk or Right? - the Worlds first Public BioBrick: Exploring Public Access to the Tools of Synthetic Biology. As part of UCL iGEM’s advisory team, C-LAB helped orchestrate the event at the Grants Museum of Zoology providing a rich fusion of components to disseminate what happens when we invite biohackers to the field of synthetic biology. Philipp Boeing (UCL iGEM) welcoming and introducing the evening with Howard Boland (C-LAB) and the London Hackspace. The smashing cocktails by mixologist Haralambos Dayantis with James Rutley (UCL iGEM)A molecular cocktail bar had been set up with stacks of polystyrene boxes filled with dry ice as a makeshift freezer serving spectacular and delicously strong drinks such as 'The Ginger Gene', 'Craig Venter’s Cherry ...
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07 Aug 2012, Richard Mully Basement Bar Lewis Building, UCL, London, UK
Following in venacular from its previous debate Synthetic Biology: Machine or Life? (UCL iGEM 2011) at the Science Museum's Dana Centre, a diverse audience had again gathered for the UCL iGEM 2012 debate: Synthetic Biology: Speed Debating aimed at a more intimate and interactive conversation on the topic of releasing genetically engineered organisms to clean up plastic pollution in the pacific ocean. Plastic Sea. Photo Source: Coastal wiki This year, the project - PLASTIC REPUBLIC - proposes to tackle plastic pollution in the ocean through bioremediation, engineering bacteria to clump together increasingly bigger bits of plastic to form artificial islands. The speed debate evening provided an opportunity to discuss whether plastic pollution should be tackled by genetically modif...
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21 Jun 2012, University of Westminster, London, UK
The launch of the Graduate School was celebrated by showcasing innovative research from doctoral candidates and recently completed projects at University's Old Cinema in Regent Street, London. Left: Video still of Transient Images. Right: Poster with description research. Howard Boland (C-LAB), showed works developed through his transdisciplinary art-science research titled: Art from Synthetic Biology. The research involves a daily laboratory practice and investigates artistic potentials in synthetic biology and bacteria. For instance, capturing stress in living organisms as light or producing images by having bacteria degrade dye. Videos included Stress-o-stat, Transient Images, Banana Bacteria, Bacteria Compass and Sludge Bacteria...
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04 04-07 Jun 2012, Resonance 104.4 FM, London, UK
Howard Boland, katE - Visualising Stress (2011) As part of Regine Debatty's (We Make Money Not Art) art, science & technology radio show on Resonance 104.4FM titled, #A.I.L - artists in laboratories, C-LAB's Howard Boland spoke about current research with magnetic nanoparticles and synthetic biology projects. Listen to WMMNA radio interview broadcasts on Resonance 104.4FM (click on play button) Regine: "You seem to be particularly taken with using synthetic biology to explore the world of bacteria these days. Can you tell us what makes bacteria so fascinating to you and which experiments and artworks you've developed using bacteria?" Howard: "So synthetic biology and bacteria are quite interconnected in my research. The bacteria I use are E...
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24 24-27 May 2012, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
C-LAB was invited to present its recent artistic development using synthetic biology and nanotechnology at Subtle Technologies Festival, an internationally recognised annual event presenting works by artists and scientists at the leading edge of their respective disciplines. It includes a symposium, performances, workshops, screenings, exhibitions and networking sessions to establish a forum to explore ideas and pose questions at the intersections of art, science and technology. The first day themed Art, technology & science ideas, began with a speed-networking session that proved an efficient way of meeting festival delegates. Following this, Heather Barnett, Joshua Dinsmore, Melissa Fisher and John Smith of University of Westminster introduced us to the&nbs...
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26 Apr 2012, Bowland Lecture Theatre, University of York, UK
The Two Cultures: Visual Art & Science conference, organised by the Department of History of Art at the University of York, asked how the cultural divide between art and science is changing with current practitioners. C.P Snows declared in 1959 a growing gap between the humanities and the natural sciences pointing to what he called the Two Cultures. Art historians provided an interesting and diverse set of papers on topics covering: the role of scientific models in post-war popular TV (Emily Candela, RCA), the visual culture surrounding Rosalind Franklin's 'Photo 51' (Camilla Mørk Røstvik, Manchester), connections between heavenly bodies and the astronomical drawings of Éthienne Léopold Trouvelot (Ros Holmes, Oxford), and influences of Modern Physi...
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02 02-08 Jan 2012, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
C-LAB kicks off 2012 by arriving in Mumbai, India to exhibit three living artworks using synthetic biology and nanotechnology. The annual exhibition is Asia’s largest international science and technology festival and held at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay under the patronage of UNESCO.The exhibition, with an estimate of over 95,000 visitors, provides an enormous exposure and a challenge for exhibitors simply overwhelmed and outnumbered. Over one hundred exhibits were displayed with a focus on robotics and artificial intelligence. C-LAB was invited to showcase its research and selected three new exhibits aimed at opening the audience to art involving living synthetic biology and nanotechnology...
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04 Nov-31 Jan 2012, Bishop's Square, Spitalfields, London, UK
C-LAB completes the second phase of the European Public Art Centre (EPAC) with the opening of the Portugese work of António Caramelo's Dreaming of a Butterfly in Bishop's square Spitalfields in London. This interactive artwork uses surrounding sounds (from audience) to trigger movement of the butterflies inside. The Portugese artists, António Caramelo, setting up the work in Bishop's Square. A small opening was held on the square celebrating the work and exchange of art between European partners. This second phase of the project involving C-LAB (UK), Ectopia (Portugal) and the Finnish Bioart Society (Finland). Last month Finland received the UK artwork Bee Box by Anne Brodie. Caramelo provides the audience with a contemplation of the real...
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20 Oct 2011, Dana Centre, Science Museum, London, UK
Finalising UCL’s iGEM activities for 2011 was the art-meets-science event focusing on synthetic biology at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre in London as part of the London Science Festival programme. The event included a panel discussion organised by UCL iGEM and a series of video screenings liaised by Laura Cinti (C-LAB) . Howard Boland, Stress-o-stat (2011) The discussion panel with talks by Philipp Boeing (UCL iGEM 2011), Dr Joe Cain (UCL), Howard Boland (C-LAB) and Dr Brendan Clarke (UCL) looked at how synthetic biology operates as part of the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM), scientifically and in socio-political contexts...
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01 Sep-01 Nov 2011, Bishop's Square, Spitalfields, London, UK
As a debut for C-LAB's international curatorial activities, C-LAB is delighted to present Anne Brodie’s new work Bee Box on Bishop’s Square, Spitalfields, London. Bee Box was commissioned and selected by C-LAB to represent the UK node as part of the European Public Art Centre (EPAC), a collaborative engagement between organisations across Europe with the aim to exhibit art-science artworks in urban outdoor public settings. The Bee Box reminds us of the invisible disappearance of our pollinators. Bees, like us, form communities of workers capable of generating intelligent social interactions. Brodie offers a poetic reflection on the fragility of these communities.
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26 Aug-31 Jan 2012, London, Helsinki, Riga, Lisbon, Tallin, Lodz, Reykjavik, Barcelona and Radviliškis
The European Public Art Centre (EPAC) is a collaborative engagement between organisations across Europe focusing on intersections between art, science and society. It consists of nine outdoor exhibition spaces established in participating countries that include UK, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Lithuania and Iceland. The stands are installed in nine public spaces hosting artworks as part of establishing the first ever Europe-wide contemporary art venue. Anne Brodie, 'Bee Box', 2011, London, UK (photo: C-LAB) As the UK representation C-LAB presented award-winning UK artist Anne Brodie's Bee Box on 1st September 2011 on Bishop’s Square, Spitalfields, London...
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04 04-09 Jul 2011, UCL, London, UK
The use of wet engineering technology offers unprecedented possibilities of ‘designing life’ to create novel living devices. Synthesis: synthetic biology in art & society focused on Synthetic Biology - an emerging field utilising engineering principles to assemble new functions in biological systems. Laura Cinti (c-lab) was invited to take part in a six-day intensive exchange laboratory alongside: artists (Melanie Jackson, Anne Brodie, Helen Bullard, Jennet Thomas, Nathan Cohen, Sneha Solanki, Katy Connor and Orkan Telhan); architects (Veronika Valk, Niccolo Casas and Thiago Soveral), a curator (JD Talasek who was there in spirit), social scientist (Joy Yueyue Zhang), bioinformatics (Irilenia Nobelli), systems and synthetic biologist (Elisa Dominguez Huttinger); philosophe...
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13 Apr 2011, UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, London, UK
The UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI), a new multidisciplinary research centre for experimental biomedical imaging, was officially opened by the Provost and President of UCL, Malcolm Grant. As part of this opening, Laura Cinti presented her Nanomagnetic Plants publicly for the first time. These plants show slight movement when an external magnet is positioned close to them. Her experimental art practice was developed in an interdisciplinary capacity with the centre.
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04 04-14 Jan 2011, Slade Research Centre, UCL, London, UK
Private exhibition showcasing experimental artworks developed as part of Laura Cinti's PhD at UCL, Slade School of Fine Art in interdisciplinary capacity with Centre of Advanced Biomedical Imaging. This interdisciplinary art practice-related research focuses on the complexities in recognising plant behaviour by highlighting the discrepancies between our daily experiences of plants, where they appear passive, and contemporary scientific findings that reveal sensorial features. Historically, plants’ relative immobility and apparently insensate behaviour have marginalised their mode of being. The research provides a mapping of this problem and further establishes a theoretical body around plant visualisation strategies using various interfaces to reveal plants as perceptive...
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16 Nov 2010, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
The UCL Digital Humanities Excursion to the Slade involved a series of presentations from artists/researchers at the Slade working with digital matter as part of their practice. Jon Thomson (Thomson & Craighead) presented two works created from live online data; one a 'narrative documentary artwork' titled A Short Film About War and the other, London Wall, a 'poetic snapshot of social networking traffic'. Lilah Fowler showed images of her sculptures created using computer aided design (CAD) and rapid prototyping. Martin John Callanan presented his work, A Planetary Order (Terrestrial Cloud Globe), a sculpture depicting earth's cloud cover on precisely the 2 February 2009 at 0600 UTC...
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17 May 2010, School of Life Sciences, Molecular and Applied Biosciences, University of Westminster, London, UK
The bioart session organised by Howard Boland (c-lab) was divided into 3 stages to give participants hands-on experiences, show breadth of practitioners and discuss critical aspects linked to these practices. The session was part of a PhD forum that aims to develop critical discussions on theory and research practices between The Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) and The Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) at the University of Westminster. A laboratory session was held prior to the discussion at the department of Molecular and Applied Biosciences where participants were invited to see and experience techniques, materials and instruments used in genetic engineering and synthetic biology...
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18 Dec 2009, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, UK.
As part of a series of new research engagements stretching back around 3 years, c-lab has entered into two new fields of art-science engagements. The first looks at sensoriality and plants, whilst the other descends upon synthetic biology working with bacteria. The latter, synthetic biology, recently saw its first steps into a university lab exploring techniques towards designing new interactive systems. The research situates its daily practice in a microbiology laboratory amongst PhD research students and post-docs from the biosciences. As a novel deployment of art-science practices at the University a fruitful exchange between the two fields emerge from a unique contact point of unfamiliarity. Joint supervision between the arts and sciences is instrumental...
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08 Sep-11 Oct 2009, Festival @rt Outsiders 2009, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
(Un)Inhabitable? - Art of Extreme Environments is the 10th anniversary of the @rt outsiders festival curated by Jean-Luc Soret and Annick Bureaud. The 2009 exhibition looks at how artists negotiate the meaning of ‘inhabiting the extreme’ and how also ‘the extreme inhabits us’. Howard Boland and Laura Cinti (c-lab), The Martian Rose 2009, Photo: MOR Howard Boland and Laura Cinti (c-lab) presented a new addition of their work The Martian Rose, supported by the @rts Outsiders, by conducting an experiment/performance leading up to the exhibition. The work bring us in direct contact with the Martian Environment by exposing roses to the harsh conditions of Mars through the use of a planetary simulation chamber...
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01 01-02 Sep 2009, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Aarhus University, Denmark
As part of the @rt outsiders festival, c-lab developed a new addition to the work The Martian Rose with the help of the Mars Simulation Laboratory at Aarhus University (Denmark). With us to conduct the experiment was Dr Jon Merrison.The abundance of images sent back from Mars via rovers, landers and orbiters, or those captured by telescopes on Earth and in space, construct a landscape often riddled with abstract data or textures devoid of life. The Martian Rose explores what happens to life in the extreme environment of Mars. In the experiment we exposed a series of roses to Martian conditions using a planetary simulation chamber specifically built for Mars to draw a new image of Mars by connnecting it to one of our most symbolic and poetic plants, the rose...
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07 07-23 Nov 2008, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2008, Hong Kong
Transient Creatures, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2008, Hong Kong, aims to bring creative collisions of art and technology to the city. In its 12th year running, the festival looks at biotechnological art from the point of view of new media art. The curators’ focus on questions relating to translations between biological systems and computer code and can biotechnology produce life that creates art. It explores what it means to be a human being with boundaries being pushed further each day. As part of the experimental Project Room, c-lab showed in-depth background material to their work, The Martian Rose. Featuring both experiment footage of the rose during exposure to Martian parameters as well as historical and current aspects of this research...
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30 Sep-01 Oct 2008, 2008 International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC), Glasgow, Scotland
Running parallel to the International Astronautical Congress, Less Remote is an arts and humanities symposium on the future of space exploration. It was organised by Flis Holland and The Arts Catalyst in association with Leonardo, OLATS and co-sponsored by IAA Commission VI. How do we influence space as it becomes a realm of cultural activites? Presented with current and future scenarios, c-lab captures the idea of a gift, in their presentation of giving a rose to Mars. The Martian Rose uses a planetary simulation chamber to expose a rose to Martian conditions for six hours. What happens to the rose? Can we learn something about space simulations and technologies, indeed about Mars through this romantic gesture? Compressed video clip of 30 minute talk below...
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04 04-05 Dec 2007, Woburn Studios, University College London, UK
Telling Places conference was organized by doctoral researchers from The Slade Shool of Fine Art and The Bartlett as part of the annual Research Spaces that has been running annually since 2004 opening opportunities to examine research spaces across disciplines. c-lab presented The Martian Rose during the session Meeting Places: Encounters between Narratives. The project looks at extreme conditions beyond Earth and features a rose exposed to Martian environment. The conference schedule also included presentations by Bruce McLean, Jane and Louise Wilson and a workshop by Gavin Bryers. The exhibition was a showcase of works that explored artistic and architectural investigations into abstract representations of space, landmarks, buildings, boundary conditions of life and 'metareprod...
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08 08-11 Nov 2007, Stone Bell House, Prague, Czech Republic
Unsafe Distance curated by Pavel Sedlak, is a showcase of artistic practices exploring issues of safety, environment, and human/non-human identity. Many of the works exemplify the fragile notion of our society.Exhibited at the Stone Bell house the particular underground setting produced challenges as well as an incredible setting for these works.Notable and perhaps due to the limited time, many of the works took on a documentary role. The Martian Rose was shown as a work rather than documentation – the piece features a custom built chamber allowing audience to experience the outcome of an experiment where a rose was exposed to Martian conditions. Stelarc's extra ear on his left arm was projected on a large screen and showed the procedure that produced this novel interface...
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08 08-10 Nov 2007, Municipal Library, Prague, Czech Republic
The MutaMorphosis international conference was organized by CIANT as part of the e n t e r 3 festival and in the framework of the Leonardo 40th anniversary. The ENTER festival ran from November 5 - 11 under the auspices of the Mayor of Prague Dr. Pavel Bém and United Nations Information Centre in Prague to feature performances, screenings and exhibitions, including the first retrospective exhibition of Frank J. Malina, renowned pioneer of light-kinetic art. c-lab presented The Martian Rose during the session Exo-Botany. The project looks at extreme conditions beyond Earth and features a rose exposed to Martian environment. An intensive program included talks and presentations by Stelarc, Louis Bec, Roy Ascott, James Gimzewski, Victoria Vesna and pioneering crossbreeds ...
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05 05-11 Aug 2007, Salzburg, Austria
Roche Continents is a partnership between Roche and the Salzburg Festival that joins students and post-doctorial researchers from the arts and sciences across Europe. Questions like "how do science and art influence each other?" and "what are the links between innovation in music, arts and science?" are amongst the many explored during the course of the week that included concerts, talks, workshops, evening drinks and dining. Although the division between artists and scientists participating in this year included clearly more of the latter, many of the scientists had backgrounds in music practices and therein lay a natural link for discussions of creative processes...
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13 Jul 2007 14:30-23:00, DRU, Bates Mill Studio, Huddersfield, UK
The Biorama Sessions contextualized works of artists exploring the natural environments, artificial landscapes and interactions with real and imaginary life forms.The director of DRU [Digital Research Unit], Derek Hales, introduced the session giving a background of the DRU and how it is currently being reorganized as part of their relocation to the Bates Mill Studio. Monica Bello, the curator of Biorama, gave a brief talk on its aim in bringing together artists exploring notions of life, science and digital reality.Andy Gracie, one of the artists in residency at DRU, gave a talk on his research playfully titled– Is there life on Marsden? He spoke of the research developed during his residency and various ideas he explored looking at ways of recording and communicating the landscape ...
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13 Jul 2007 09:30-13:00, Marsden Moor, West Yorkshire, UK
Part of Andy Gracie’s residency has been to focused on creating an awareness of areas and landscapes surrounding the DRU [Digital Research Unit]. His research looks at layers from the micro, such as microbial life in soil and water, to the macro, such as infosphere and satellites, interpreting and thinking about the layered construction of this landscape. As a group of artist invited alongside, we joined his hunt, high and low, as a way of experiencing these very different layers of landscape. Bioart practices are often seen using wet technology however for a July month this experience was a tad more literal. Our group gathered around 50 frogs and Brandon Ballengée filed a report on our findings. The frogs were later set free...
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03 May-09 Sep 2007, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
Bios 4 is one of the first exhibition of its kind in Spain and perhaps also one of the first times for biotech related works to be displayed in a museum setting as opposed to gallery. The name of the exhibition Bios 4 takes its name playfully in continuation of Biosphere 1, which is the earth our planet, Biosphere 2, was an artificial closed ecosystem built in Arizona around 1987-1989 in order to investigate space colonization, Bios 3, was an enclosed ecosystem at a biophysic institute in Siberia used for habitational experiments in the 1970 and 1980s. Another playful connotation is the computer term BIOS - Basic Input and Output System.The Martian Rose had its first viewing. This is an installation by c-lab and plays with romantic and destructive ideas surrounding life...
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02 May 2007, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
The Bios 4 talk moderated by curator Antonio Cerveira Pinto gave a reflection on the relationship between science, technology, and art with the participation of artists taking part in the exhibition and other guests.Antonio Cerveira Pinto explained his motivation behind the exhibition. Throughout the 20th Century artists have increasingly had a movement towards conceptualisations and their works become a reflection onto itself. What he sees as new in current movements including this exhibition is that artists are now showing real engagement with processes and material outcomes. This kind of materialization can act to reconnect the audience with contemporary art because it clearly reflects an experience of culture and zeitgeists...
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27 Mar 2007, Mars Simulation Laboratory, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
One of our ongoing investigations into life and otherness considers non-terrestrial conditions as a place for habitation. The tool used to investigate these conditions is normally a special vacuum chamber built to simulate parameters such as temperature, gas and distribution, pressure and radiation. Our first entry point to this research when it started around two years ago, was looking at the romantic idea of giving a rose for Mars. Roses bought from a florist are not very good candidates for this environment but perhaps they could survive given some protection. Researchers at NASA have proposed several types of greenhouses that could be used to grow food for future man missions to Mars...
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04 04-08 Dec 2006, Royal Free & University College Medical School, London, UK
Antibiotics have been applied for centuries. Honey was for instance used by the Egyptians to dress wounds – and we know today that honey has an anti-bacterial effect drawing water from the bacterial cells. It was only in the 19th century that scientists became aware of how and why antibiotics were effective. The ability to harvest bacteria and use these to compete with pathogenic bacteria was one method trailed, another would apply chemical, and yet another enzymes. Perhaps the medical breakthrough came when Alexander Fleming in 1928 observed mould/fungi that had formed on a Petri dish inoculated with Staphylococcus causing inhibition to the bacterial growth. Curious, he identified the fungi as Penicillium notatum and cultured it further and finally injected one of his patients with ...
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09 09-10 Nov 2006, Rotterdam/Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fleshing Out seminar is part of a two-day event on material research with the second day being a workshop. The host of this seminar is V2_, an organization for unstable media based in Rotterdam. Specifically to the V2_ spirit is not just to talk but also to demo - picking up on MIT media lab’s slogan demo or die. The opening presentation, by Suzanne Lee (UK) from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Fashioning The Future: tomorrows wardrobe, provided an historical overview tracing back to the Italian futurist manifesto and up to the 1960s from which she launched a critic on the development since. The fashion industry after the 1960s has been obsessed with retrorecycling and all areas of fashion with the exception of sportswear have seen no radical technological changes...
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