Joel Ong_video residency

The video is the result of the virtual residency of Joel Ong at Cultivamos Cultura. During his residence, Joel continued his research (still in work in progress) untitled interspecies umwelten research.   PROJECT DESCRIPTION  untitled interspecies umwelten (2021 – ) Euglena gracilis swimming at 400x magnification + phase contrast The project untitled interspecies umwelten is […]
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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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Toni Gabaldón

BIO Toni Gabaldón PhD, Research Professor at the Institute for Biomedical Research (IRB) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC). He is a researcher interested in understanding how organisms, populations and complex ecological communities adapt, and how their properties and traits originate and evolve across the tree of life. He does so from a comparative genomics […]
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BIOFRICTION SUMMER PROGRAM

From the 12th to the 17th of July of 2021, Hangar hosts the Summer program of Biofriction. The Summer program is a six-day intensive full-time programme on experimental practices where to share and generate situated knowledge(s). Composed of a series of workshops, seminars, and presentations on Wetlab, Radical Ecologies, Ethics, Biohacking, and F(r)ictions; bringing together […]
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Biofriction Radio: BLOT

Biofriction Radio collects podcasts interviewing Biofriction artists in residence exploring evolutionary biology, artistic practices, and thoughts from experimental research with biotech. In the fourth episode of the podcast, Simona Deaconescu and Vanessa Goodman, Biofriction artists in residence at Cultivamos Cultura, discuss their project BLOT (an acronym for Body Line of Thought). The work shows a […]
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Phagelogies. Alliances in the space of Necropolitics.

  Under the warmongering dialectic of the virus as an enemy to be defeated, we are facing hyperstimulation of the social imaginary of the virus as a pathogen, as an infectious agent. This narrative leaves aside the power of the viral agent as a condition of possibility of horizontal transfer of the genetic material and […]
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