Biofiction Shorts

                From the 8th of April to the 8th of May, Bioart Society will present the Biofiction Shorts, a science art film festival exploring the theme of Futurebody. The event is structured around the topic of neurotechnology as the harbinger of a future in which the human body, […]
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Biolab week, exploring the ecology of color

From the 15th to the 19th of March, Elisava Research, Elisava’s Master in Design through New Materials and Hangar presented the Biolab week, a week of conferences and workshops on bio materials hosted in the framework of Biofriction. On March 15th, Hangar hosted the Biolab Conference, a lecture where Maria Boto (The Colour Biolab, University […]
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‘Xenological Entanglements. 001b: Saccular Fount’

On the 23rd of March 2021 at Zavod Kersnikova in Street Likozarjeva 1, Ljubljana, the inauguration of Saccular Fount a speculative wearable device that suggests a near-term future where personal hormone production is both possible and necessary. She needs what it provides, badly. She’s intoxicated by the estrogen molecule, a rather simple thing really, yet […]
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Biofriction Interviews

In Biofriction, the intersections between evolutionary biology, artistic practices, and aesthetics are understood as potencies that can catalyze, articulate and problematize arguments and ideas from experimental research with matter; understanding these processes as a qualitative multiplicity; understanding research as an (open) syntax of doing. In the current context, pandemic and ecological debacle, and collective sense […]
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BioLab Conference

On Monday, March 15 at 6 pm (CET), Elisava Research and the European project Biofriction present the Biolab Conference, a lecture organized within the framework of Elisava’s BioLab Week and the Master in Design through New Materials. Maria Boto (The Colour Biolab, UGhent); Juan Crespo (Elisava Research BioLab) and Laura Benítez (director of the Biofriction project, led […]
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TICK TALKs – Biofriction Podcast Series

TICK TALKs is a series of conversations by artists Laura Beloff and Kira O’Reilly, Biofriction resident artist, with experts from the biosciences and the humanities concerning ticks, the pathogens they carry and the implications for humans and non-humans within changing environments. – – During recent decades there has been a notable increase in tick populations, the expansion of tick-infested […]
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