Emilia Tikka

BIO Emilia Tikka is a transdisciplinary designer and researcher, currently a PhD candidate at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki and a research associate at Tampere University in the Department of New Social Research and STS. Former affiliations include: visiting scholar position at the Hermann von Helmholtz Centre for Cultural Techniques […]
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Biofriction Online Residences

Due to the current pandemic situation, some of the artistic residencies have been rethought and reset to take place online. Biofriction partner, Cultivamos Cultura, is developing the program in order to preserve as much as possible the artists’ original proposal, spirit, and objectives readapting them to new connections and spaces. With this in mind, Biofriction […]
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Mayra Citlalli Rojo Gómez

BIO Mayra is a Mexican artist, interdisciplinary researcher and curator in visual arts and body discourses (gender and race), design and textile innovation research. She has received honorary mentions for doctoral and masters final dissertations. She developed postdoctoral research about bacterial cellulose for textile and design. As an artist, she was selected the first artist […]
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Kira O’Reilly

BIO Kira O’Reilly is an Irish artist based in Helsinki, her practice, both willfully interdisciplinary and entirely undisciplined stems from a visual art background, it employs performance, biotechnical practices and writing with which to consider speculative reconfigurations around the body. She makes, writes, teaches, mentors and collaborates with humans of various types and technologies and […]
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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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