Saša Spačal

BIO Saša Spačal is a post-media artist working at the intersection of living systems research, contemporary and sound art. Her work focuses primarily on the posthuman condition, where human beings exist and act as one of many elements in the ecosystem and not as sovereigns. Therefore abandoning the Cartesian system of classification and accepting the […]
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Biofriction Radio: Kira O’Reilly & Christina Gruber

Biofriction Radio collects podcasts interviewing Biofriction artists in residence exploring evolutionary biology, artistic practices, and thoughts from experimental research with biotech. In the seventh episode of the podcast, we listen to Kira O’Reilly and Christina Gruber, artists in residence at Cultivamos Cultura. In the podcast, the artists explain how during the residence their projects crossed […]
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Paula Pin

BIO Paula Pin, resident in Hangar in 2009,  is a researcher and artist-activist who has a strong inclination towards research and experimentation processes with collective and free technologies. She has undertaken residencies at institutions such as CERN, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Art school KASK en Gent, Prototyp_ome at Hangar Barcelona, Gaite Liric en París, […]
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Leslie García

BIO Leslie García is an electronic sound artist and digital media developer from Tijuana. She explores the fusion process between art and technology, using techniques such as virtual tool production, electronic prototyping, audio production, net.art part design and generative visual codes, hardware development, and biological interfaces. Co-founder of the bio-art collective Interspecific (Mexico City) 2013 […]
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On Encounters, Agencies and Touch. A conversation with Brandon LaBelle

Brandon LaBelle, The Free Scene, 2017, La Tabacalera, Madrid. With Vicente Colomar, Fátima Cué, María Escobar, Antonio Gómez, Annie Pui Ling Lok, Catalina Mahecha, África Clúa Nieto   Reading Sonic Agency, one of the first questions that emerge, perhaps not literally, is that a body can be anything. “It can be an animal, a body of […]
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Grounding symbiosis, sonifying care

Biofriction is collaborating with Sónar+D in the lecture Grounding symbiosis, sonifying care by researcher and biohacker Saša Spačal, in their cycle of conferences The Part of Nature We Don’t See. She explores how funghi, bacteria and other organisms can be creative collaborators, creating technological interfaces and connections between species. 📅 Friday 18th of September ⏰ […]
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