Arc-hive.zone project launch

We are glad to announce the launching of the Arc-hive.zone project.  Arc-hive.zone project is formed by part of the Biofriction European project consortium led by Hangar, Zavod Kersnikova, Bioart Society, Cultivamos Cultura, together with the NGO Kontejner and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Arc-hive aims to create an open-source digital platform that aggregates, […]
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BioFutures Workshop at Bioart Society

From the 7th to the 11th of June, Bioart Society hosts BioFutures, a workshop that invites a group of practitioners to work together and to investigate futures in relation to biology, ecology and life sciences. During the workshop, the group builds a storyworld – a possible future – and explores the impact of different scenarios upon […]
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SummerLab 2021_Elements of Care

Thanks to the Creative European project Biofriction, Hangar and Cultivamos Cultura started a new partnership. As part of the project, Cultivamos Cultura and Hangar, in July 2021 organized the 4th of SummerLab 2021, entitled Elements of Care. Nowadays, the intersection of Art, Biology and Environment offer a great opportunity to visual artists.  For this reason, […]
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BioLab Conference

On Monday, March 15 at 6 pm (CET), Elisava Research and the European project Biofriction present the Biolab Conference, a lecture organized within the framework of Elisava’s BioLab Week and the Master in Design through New Materials. Maria Boto (The Colour Biolab, UGhent); Juan Crespo (Elisava Research BioLab) and Laura Benítez (director of the Biofriction project, led […]
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Non/Living Queerings

The ongoing global pandemic of COVID-19 has exposed SARS-CoV-2 as a potent nonhuman actant that resists the joint scientific, public health and socio-political efforts to contain and understand both the virus and the illness. Yet, such a narrative appears to conceal more than it reveals. The seeming agentiality of the novel corona virus is itself […]
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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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