Joel Ong

BIO Joel Ong is currently Assistant Professor in Computational Arts and Interim Director of Sensorium: The centre for Digital Art and Technology at York University in Toronto, Canada. Ong is a media artist whose work typically involves artistic and scientific perspectives of the environment expressed through sound, video and interactive elements. His installations and research […]
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Christina Gruber

BIO   Christina Gruber is a Vienna-based freshwater ecologist, visual artist, and sturgeon caretaker. She works at the intersection of art and science; her work deals with societal phenomena that shape our world. Gruber investigates the effects human activities have and had on the landscape and how they’ve shaped the Earth’s surface, specifically focusing on […]
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Vanesa Lorenzo

BIO Vanessa Lorenzo is a researcher and trans-disciplinary designer based in Switzerland. Trained as a product design engineer and media designer, she focuses on objects that address intimate interdependencies between humans and the ecologies we are embedded in. Influenced by ethno-fiction, feminist theory and speculative design methology, she creates scenarios embedding people, the more-than-human and […]
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Freaktion Bar #12: ‘I will grow my burger’

On the 17th of December 2019, Kapelica Gallery hosts a lecture by Theresa Schubert. What if we produced the food that we eat from ourselves, i.e. from various cell cultures taken from our bodies, thus minimally burdening the environment in which we live? The artist Theresa Schubert will discuss the ethical questions that emerge as […]
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A talk on health and care by Power Make us Sick

Have you ever had every intention to care for someone close to you and failed inexplicably? Do you want your communities to be more resilient and strong, but always seem to be focusing on the urgent tasks in front of you? An accountability model is a tool being developed by PMS to facilitate communities in […]
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