HackteriaLab2011 program -
The Reflection - Kunstraum Walcheturm - Zurich

Hackteria is a highly interdisciplinary multicultural group of artists, hackers and scientists who work and share their knowledge on DIY biology, generic lab infrastructure and garage science. Following the 6 day Retreat in L'ARC, Romainmotier - the second annual international HackteriaLab - Hackteria invites the public to participate in two days of workshops, presentations and discussions around various aspects of art and science practice. This weekend program will serve to conclude, communicate and reflect on the work and developments which have come about through our collaborative experiments over the last week.

Information:
Entrance free to all events. No advance inscription necessary for workshops, places will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Workshop activities are suitable for all age groups. Kids definitely welcome.

Saturday 6th August:

Ongoing:
Display of objects, artefacts, prototypes and systems made during the HackteriaLab in Romainmotier.

Workshops: 14.00 to 18.00

DIY Video Microscopy day 1. Conversion of USB webcams into video microscopes.
Led by Øyvind Mellbye (NO) and Areti Nikolopoulou (GR)

Finnish Kilju Wine Making day 1. Led by Marc Dusseiller (CH) and Nur Akbar Arrofatullah (ID)

18.30 to 19.00
Tempeh making. Led by HONF (Nur Akbar Arrofatullah and Julian Abraham (ID))
Julian 'Togar' Abraham from Indonesia (Muhammad Hidayat) is an artist, programmer, scientist-wannabe and social researcher.

Brief Presentations: 19.00 to 20.00
Everyday Science - Brian Degger (AU)
Brian Degger is an interdisciplinary biologist and creative from Australia based in Newcastle .

The Finnish Bio-Art Society - Antti Tenetz (FI)
Antti Tenetz is a visual artist. His works are at the crossroads of media - bio and urban arts, Sci/Art, nature, documentary and interactive spaces.

VIDA - Monica Bello (ES)
Monica Bello Bugallo is artistic director of VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Awards founded in 1999 by Fundacion Telefonica (Madrid, Spain).

HackteriaLab2011 Overview - Andy Gracie (UK/ES)
Andy Gracie, London -1967, is an artist working between various disciplines including installation, robotics, sound, video and biological practice.

Presentation: 20.00 - 20.40
Jill Scott and Mathias Öchslin
Jill Scott is Professor in the Institute of Cultural Studies in Art, Media and Design at Zurich University of the Arts, co-director of the Artists-in-Labs
Mathias Öchslin Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Geneva, Cognitive Neuroscience of Music and Language, Psychoacoustics 

Final Panel Discussion: 21.00
From Ethics of Collaboration to Workshopology. Chaired by Yashas Shetty (IN) with various HackteriaLab participants.
Yashas Shetty is an artist and composer based in Bangalore, India. He is currently an artist in residence at the National Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore and faculty at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology.

Peformance & Concert: 22.00 - 23.00
Bio - accoustic experiment by Cristian Faubel (DE) and Ivan Henriques (BR/NL)
Christian Faubel is a researcher and artist interested in autonomous behavior and how it may emerge out of the interaction of very simple systems.
Ivan Henriques is a Brazilian artist and independent researcher working in multimedia and site-specific installations.

Sunday 7th August :

Workshops: 14.00 to 18.00
DIY Video Microscopy day 2. Conversion of USB webcams into video microscopes. Led by Øyvind Mellbye (NO) and Areti Nikolopoulou (GR)
Finnish Kilju Wine Making day 2. Led by Marc Dusseiller (CH) and Nur Akbar Arrofatullah (ID)

Workshop 14.00 - 14.30
Non-Newtonion Fluids. Led by AL (CH)
AL (CH) During the last two years, he has been developing small games and an audio synthesis tool (called ES/executable sound). He is broadly interested, in new media culture, people doing free-form technology and nature.

Workshop 14.30 - 15.00
Slant preparation for cultures. Led by Sachiko Hirosue (JP)
Sachiko Hirosue works as a researcher at the interface of biomaterials and lymphatic physiology in the Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Brief Presentations: 16.00 to 17.00
Symbiotica residency and research - Verena Friedrich (DE)
Hackteria in India - Yashas Shetty (IN)
HONF and Intelligent Bacteria - Nur Akbar Arrofatullah and Julian Abraham (ID)
VIDA - Monica Bello (ES)

Break:
17.00 to 18.00

Panel Discussion: 18.00 to 18.45
The future of Hackteria and the open source collaborative model. Chaired by Marc Dusseiller (CH)

Information:
Entrance free to all events. No advance inscription necessary for workshops, places will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Workshop activities are suitable for all age groups. Kids definitely welcome.

www.hackteria.org

Participants:
Andy Gracie (UK/ES)
Artist working with DIY scientific practice focussed on the interface between the organic and the synthetic.

Yashas Shetty (IN)
Currently an Artist in Residence and faculty at the Centre For Experimental Media Arts at Srishti in Bangalore and an artist in residence the National Centre For Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore. His practice explores working between various disciplines including installation, sound, software and biotechnology.

Spela Petric (SLO)
Has a Phd in molecular biology and is beginning to explore the hybrid territory offered by arts and science practice. Currently collaborates with Maja Smerkar on the creation of a communication portal between humans and rats.
Maja Smerkar (SLO)
An intermedia artist from Ljubljana with an MA at the New Media and Video Department of the Fine Art Academy in Ljubljana. Her main interest is based at the fenomenology of perception which she first started researching through space by composing live video among various collaborations in performative sound/visual projects with other artists.

Mac Cowell (US)
Is on of the co-founders of DIYBio, a fledgling organization aimed at providing amateur biologists a common framework for striking out on their own. He was drawn to the idea after managing a 'wiki' website for the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Øyvind Mellbye (NO)
Recently graduated from Bergen national academy of the arts and has been working on his own projects, with other peoples art, and also as a gallery technician. He is currently working on a project that stages a 20,000 year race between 2 mountains.

Antti Tenetz (FI)
Is equal parts artist and naturalist. His works are at the crossroads of media-,bio- and urban arts, Sci/Art, nature, documentary, installations and EcoArt. Tenetz has contributed multimedia and documentaries to science exhibitions ranging in subject from arctic reindeer herders to glacial movements. The work he is doing about the wild nature goes far beyond all the usual clichés and the "green-hype" movement.

Cristian Faubel (DE)
Works as a researcher at the institut für neuroinformatik , i do performances with the projectorband kunstundmusikmitdemtageslichtprojektor , with derstrudel i teach workshops at the edge of science and art and i create installations that are self-sustained habitats with autonomous robots .

Verena Friedrich (DE)
Is based in Cologne doing postgrad studies and working as scientific research assistant at the Academy of Media Arts. Since some time, she has been researching and working on a project called "cellular performance", , based on some scientific research by Marc Dusseiller for his dissertation in the field of micro- and nanoengineering of cells in vitro. She just returned from Australia where she undertook a 4-month residency at SymbioticA, to work on the above mentioned project.

Sachiko Hirosue (JP)
Her daily activities are at EPFL, making nanoparticles for vaccine applications and thinking about lymphatic drainage, always inspired by microorganisms - a bit of chemistry, a bit of molecular biology, a bit of pharmaceutical formulations, imaging, cell and animal work.

Tobias Hoffmann (DE)
Has studied a bit physics, special education, fine at and digital arts. In the moment im interested in the area "the internet of things" ~ and also social
impact of digital media culture. He has directed workshops around physical computing
and the internet of things .

Monica Bello (ES)
Has been working for the last few years in art/science from a curatorial perspective. I was at certain point very involved in the bioart scene, setting up several events in collaboration with university, cultural centres, etc. She is currently artistic director of VIDA (www.fundaciontelefonica.com/vida) . Previously she spent almost 3 years running the educational programme of Laboral in Gijón-Spain (www.laboralcentrodearte.org ).

Georg Dietzler (DE)
Since 1981he has been working in the fields of art, nature and environment, which some today call ECOART. His work involves concepts of cross-disciplinary ecological arts and talking about ongoing architectural sculpture projects ?Self-decomposing Laboratories for cleaning-up PCB contaminated soil by Oyster mushrooms", developed since 1994.

Julian Abrahams (Togar) (ID)
Is an artist, programmer, scientist-wannabe and social researcher. Since 2006 he has been an active member of HONF. Through his involvement with HONF Abraham gained new ideas and experiences about how art, the environment, science and technology relate to one another - providing new tools to educate and engage both him and the society into a wiser, richer and more independent living being in a world of creation and annihilation.

Nur Akbar Arrofatullah (ID)
Is a wine maker and bioethanol researcher. He is also one of the co-founders of HONF - the House of Natural Fibers.

AL(CH)
During the last two years, he has been developing small games and an audio synthesis tool (called ES/executable sound), bedroom style, among other minor projects. He is broadly interested, in new media culture, people doing free-form technology and nature.

Jesus Queijas (ES)
Is an artist based and working at L'ARC, Romainmotier. His work involves natural objects and processes.

Marc Dusseiller (CH)
Is involved in various projects at the interface of science & technology and culture/society. With his backround as a material scientist, and scientific research in the field of BioInterfaces, Micro- and Nanosystems for tissue culture and biosensors, he has already been involved in interdisciplinary projects, bringing together people from biology and engineering, developing research devices, so simple that even biologists can use them.

Ivan Henriques (BR/NL)
In the past few years he has been developing new ways of communication with other living organisms in his works. He is a visual artist graduated in sculpture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and finally concluded my MA in ArtScience Interfaculty in the Netherlands last month.

Brian Degger (AUS/UK)
Is a scientist, with a PhD in biotechnology. He has been involved in a lot of art science collaborationsand is also part of the antipodean art/science/technology diaspora, growing up in Adelaide, a city with a Mediterranean climate and a supprisingly active arts scene.

Bengt Sjolen (SE)
Is based in Stockholm and Berlin meaning that he currently shares a studio with teenage engineering in Stockholm and a studio called weise 7 in Berlin. He is all about code in that most things he does are generated with code. Even when he codes he occassionaly writes code that generates the code...

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