Workshop with Mindaugas Gapševičius, and Mirela Alistar Thursday 7th March 2019. 15-18h and 19h30-21hFriday 8th March 2019. 10-13hat ruine hq, Ihmeplatz7e, Hanover The workshop with Mirela Alistar and Mindagaus Gapševičius invites the audience to explore their own symbiotic relationship with organisms inside and outside themselves. By using SCOBI – a symbiotic culture of bacteria and …
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SCOBY, Shit and Humus @ transmediale Vorspiel
Participative installation. 2019 In collaboration with Julian Chollet, Juan Pablo Díaz At the Transmediale and CTM Vorspiel 2019, 18.01.2019, 17:30 open end. Kunsthaus ACUD. Veteranenstrasse 21, 10119, Berlin Members of the TOP Association in collaboration with members of the mikroBIOMIK Society and guests teamed up for the investigation of SCOBI, shit, and humus. The hands-on …
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Radio Mycelium & How I Hack Plant Conversations @ Piksel
Installation, tutorial, toolkit, experiments. 2018 In collaboration with Martin Howse At the 16th PIKSEL festival for electronic art and free technologies. November 22-24 2018Workshop Nov 23, 2018 @ 10:00 Piksel Studio 207, Strandgaten 207 BERGEN The project invites us to experience interspecies communication and feedback loops between mycelium networks and their habitats, including other organisms …
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How I prepare myself to be cloned. Lactose-intolerance DNA test
Installation and workshop in collaboration with Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM team 28th to 29th of September 2018, at Sodų 4 project space in Vilnius The installation and workshop invite participants to self-detect mutated sequences of the human genome. The theme is conceptually wrapped and speculated about in the toolkit “How I prepare myself to be cloned.” The …
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Machine, I, and Feedback Loops
Workshop with Mindaugas Gapševičius and Simona BekeraiteSeptember 25, 16:00, Technarium, Pramonės 141,building 4, Naujoji Vilnia, Vilnius 11115 The workshop refers to microprocessors implanted into human bodies and prosthesis being able to pick up information directly from brain.
Mycorrhizal networks or how I hack plant conversations at Kuldīga
Workshop3- 8 August 2018, International Summer school of contemporary art, Kuldīga (LV) Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art is organising the Summer School in cooperation with Kuldīga artist residency and Latvian Academy of Art. It is aimed at providing the emerging professionals with lectures by acknowledged lecturers and moderators of workshops in a free and interdisciplinary …
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Mycorrhizal networks or how I hack plant conversations @ TOP
Workshop with Mindaugas Gapševičius and Alessandro VolpatoSa, 17.03.2018. (15:00 – 18:00), TOP, Schillerpromenade 4, 12049 Berlin Fungi are able to biodegrade organic and inorganic elements, including slowly degradable elements such as cellulose, toxins, and heavy metals. Fungi are also known for being able to transport chemical elements within their networks and their ability to exchange …
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“Shared Habitats” – Media Art and Design students exhibit in Taiwan
20 – 30 November 2017Location: Jhongdou Wetlands Park and 116 Art Center, NKNUCurators: Prof. Ursula Damm and Mali Wu The Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art, National Kaohsiung Normal University, has invited 11 artists and 9 pieces from the Media Art and Design degree course at the Faculty of Art and Design of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar to …
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How I prepare myself to be cloned
Toolkit Cloning is a complex issue involving scientific knowledge, civil law, and ethical questions yet to be solved by humanity. On the other hand, the methodology used for cloning animals is not that complex and could be easily imagined with the use of simple tools. Referring to mythological hybrids like centaurs, mermaids, and minotaurs, the …
Mycorrhizal networks or how I hack plant conversations
Toolkit One of the scientific terms defining plant interaction is allelopathy, a phenomenon wherein compounds produced by one plant affect the growth of surrounding plants. The compounds produced are released into the soils or taken in by symbiotic fungi and further transported over mycorrhizal networks to the target plants within the same community in order …
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