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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Mari Mutare Pictorial_issue #37 Temes de Disseny

You can now access online to the new issue of Temes de Disseny, a design research journal by Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering. The 37th issue: Invisible Conflicts: A New Terrain of Bodies, Infrastructures and Information, co-edited by Bani Brusadin and Laura Benítez, sets out to humbly explore the topic of conflict and disobedience […]
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Paratext

  This Paratext is an exercise in experimental meta-method(s) that makes the text, the research, addressing its presence(s) in the world. We are welcomed by Maddalena Fragnito and Zoe Romano, artists and researchers in residence at Biofriction, with their project OBOT (Our Bodies, Our Tech). OBOT, which pays practical-conceptual homage to the proposal of the […]
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Biofriction Summer Program: (Bio)haking_with_care

Hangar from the 12th to 17th of July 2021 hosted the Biofriction Summer Program, a six-day intensive program with workshops, seminars, and presentations on Wetlab, Radical Ecologies, Ethics, Biohacking, and F(r)ictions; bringing together artists, researchers, philosophers, and hackers (among others) from diverse (in)trans_disciplinary practices and perspectives. The proposal is conceived as an entangled structure in […]
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Biofriction Summer Program Diary

Day 1: WETLAB After several last minutes changes, updates and vicissitudes the Summer program has finally started. To break the ice and get people to know each other the participants were welcomed with a coffee break in Hangar venue. Afterwards, Laura Benítez Valero did an introduction of the Biofriction project and the Summer Program activities. […]
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Theresa Schubert

BIO Theresa Schubert is a Berlin-based artist exploring unconventional visions of nature, technology and the self. She holds a PhD in Media Art from Bauhaus-University Weimar. In her work organic matter and living organisms become a part of the art piece. Through interdisciplinary methods – such as biohacking, theoretical analysis, performative interpretation and material experimentation […]
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