Biofriction. Intersection between arts, sciences and technologies

Here you will find “Biofriction. Intersection between arts, sciences and technologies“, the official publication on the Biofriction project. The essay consists of several critical texts divided into six parts to give a broad and complete idea of the project.  Narrative Describes the development of the Biofriction project over time, emphasizing, through a fluid and personal […]
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Margherita Pevere

Margherita Pevere is an artist and researcher with a visceral fascination for the biological matter. Bacteria, animals, and plants are her allies in the exploration of ecological complexity. Her installations and performances are chimeras intertwining poetics and controversy, critique and desire. Pevere is PhD candidate (Artistic Research) at Aalto University, Helsinki, in collaboration with Biofilia […]
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Karolina Żyniewicz

Karolina Żyniewicz is an artist (2009 graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Department of Visual Arts) and researcher, PhD student (Nature-Culture Transdisciplinary PhD Program at Artes Liberales Faculty, University of Warsaw). Working in a laboratory (mostly at the Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw) locates her works […]
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Microdoc_ Christina Gruber residency

The video is the Fourteenth Microdoc of the residencies within Cultivamos Cultura premises and presents the Biofriction artistic research of Christina Gruber during her residency at Cultivamos Cultura. In the video, Christina explains the main goal and techniques’ of her research. The project HOUSTON, CAN YOU HEAR ME?  Species in alliance seeks to develop a non-human […]
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Exhibition: Trans*Plant

From the 2nd till the 25th of September Trans*Plant: May the Chlorophyll be with/in you exhibition takes place in the SOLU Space venue. Trans*Plant is a transdisciplinary project, initiated by Quimera Rosa in 2016, that utilizes living systems and is based on self-experimentation: it is a process that involves a human to plant transition in […]
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BIOFRICTION SUMMER PROGRAM_ VIDEO

We are delighted to present the video made by Paula Lienard Ibañez to catch some moments of the Biofriction Summer program. This summer Biofriction brought together artists, researchers, philosophers, and hackers (among others) from diverse (in)trans_disciplinary practices and perspectives. For facilitators and participants, the Biofriction Summer program meant qualitative time to share questions, concerns, experiments, […]
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