VASTAL is a temporary research and education institute that Adam Zaretsky has set up in Amsterdam following an invitation by the Waag Society. Zaretsky will give lectures and workshops on Art and Life Sciences. The School was born with the objective of showing what it means to work artistically and scientifically with living organisms and materials. It also aims to make this form of art-science accessible for a broader audience and invite them to discuss the ethical and aesthetic issues at stake.
Category Archive: bioart
Using some DIY laboratory equipment, Andy Gracie’s team developed a system of variable strength magnetic field generators and related apparatus which allowed them to observe living micro-organisms as they were exposed and responded to various magnetic fields
The Transgenic Pheasant Embryology Art and Science Laboratory taught by Adam Zaretsky at the University of Leiden was a hands-on perfomance art wet-lab aimed at stimulating a debate about the use of new biological methods for permanent alteration of genetic inheritance
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Call for the presentation of projects where science, technology and art converge into prototypes and installations that use software, hardware and biology
A robot engraves a habitat for fungi while a team of architectural conservators trap dust and dirt in latex in order to preserve and display it like a precious shroud
In a project that addresses the problem of future human food production and the ongoing consequences of the breeding, manipulation and mistreatment of plant and animal species, corn seeds are submitted to a new, broad educational curriculum
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A short video that documents Brandon Ballengee’s research into amphibian declines and deformities
The videos of the conference which took place at FACT in Liverpool on February 8 & 9 have been made available online
Caitlin Berrigan, Adam Zaretsky, Brandon Ballengee, Kathy High and I will be in New York for a panel on biotech art
Featuring Critical Art Ensemble’s video Immolation and The Office of Experiments investigation into truth serums
Meet the artist who is hunting for moss bears, communicating with electric fish and combining woodworks and electronic music to create novel instruments and performances
At the Artissima art fair last month in Turin, i discovered a new player on the local art […]
Jens Hauser’s presentation in Aix en Provence (part 1) On Wednesday afternoon, last week, curator Jens Hauser gave […]
More notes from the talks i heard at De l’objet de laboratoire au sujet social (From Laboratory Object […]
I’ve just spent four fascinating days at the Ecole d’Art d’Aix en Provence where a whole week of […]
Slowly coming back to the ars electronica postings with some notes from a talk by Zbigniew Oksiuta, one […]
Angelo Vermeulen is currently in residency at the Aesthetic Technologies Lab in Athens, Ohio to work on his […]
I think that you will never be rewarded enough for being wmmna readers. Picnic is a conference + […]
The Golden Nica in the brand new Hybrid Art category went to a whole structure not just a […]
Just received the latest issue of aminima::. Focusing on contemporary art and in particular new media art, the […]
Last episode of the Biorama day in Huddersfield where Capsula and the Digital Research Unit had invited artists […]
Back to my notes from Biorama, a one day event organized by Capsula and the Digital Research Unit […]
On Friday 13 i spent an extra day in Huddersfield to attend the Biorama organized by Capsula and […]
Bit slow with the blogging cuz i do not always have access to internet but service should resume […]
In case you have some time to kill in front of the screen, here are some vids for […]
Another project from the Royal College of Art design interactions show. There were several digital pieces, but also […]
I’m now spending a week in a super boring city. That’s the best way i found to catch […]
Anna Dumitriu is the Director of the Institute of Unnecessary Research and an artist whose work is deeply […]
More notes from my conversation with Antonio Cerveira Pinto, the curator of Bios 4. It’s probably the first […]
The first Biosphere is Gaia, the planet Earth. Biosphere 2 was an artificial closed ecological system constructed in […]
Yesterday i spent a few fantastic hours with Antonio Cerveira Pinto in Sevilla. He showed me around Bios4, […]
A documentary that Shawn Bailey and Jennifer Willet from Bioteknica did a couple of months ago with Vision […]
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Viral Confections are chocolates shaped into the molecular structure of the hepatitis C virus. A model of the […]
I was recently wondering where all the bioart projects had gone. The question is addressed to art curators […]
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Who am i to think that i can live in the German capital and ignore the Berlinale? Yesterday […]
Gunnar Green experiments with living matter in order to create slow graphic design. He went to Humboldt University‘s […]
Wow! That was a fantastic talk. I wish more artists could talk about their work with so much […]