hackteria

Hackteria was invited as part of “Art Experiment”, flagship initiative and Public Programs of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.

Overview
In the post-apocalyptic era the survival depends on creative approaches and the ability to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions. By setting up a temporary biolab and building generic lab equipment from recycled consumer technology the hackteria people use their science fantasy to create a unique environment for experimentation and reflection. And do so evaluating one’s ethical values with every new discovery.

About Art Experiment: Laboratories of Earthly Survival
This year, the eighth annual Garage Art Experiment features immersive installations and workshops by Russian and international artists, scientists, biohackers, and engineers, exploring questions of ecology and future survival. Developed at the intersection of art, science, and technology, this multidisciplinary project allows visitors to experience various imaginary perspectives for our environment and get directly involved in “hacking” life sciences by taking part in alternative biological, genetic, and robot-engineering experiments.

Participants
Marc R. Dusseiller, Špela Petrič, Urs Gaudenz and our friends Miha Tursic, Rachel Gaudenz

This weekend, 2-3. December, various meetings, gatherings, exhibitions and workshops have been happening in Lausanne. Great oppotunity to meet and discuss together about biohacking, fermenting and eating cheese.

3 Years Hackuarium
Great to be part of the 3 years anniversary of Hackuarium, the “only* dedicated biohackerspace in Switzerland, and interesting to see how the whole environment has changed since our first workshop “Water Hackathon” in the empty premises back in Spring 2014. Meanwhile it went up and down a few floors, and finally shrank into a small, but vey functional lab, including being licences as B1 safety level for some genetics and other microbial experiments. Urs also checked what they are up to at this years edition of HTGAA, geeking again with the silk-cocoons. And finally an amazing fondue party in the middel of the start-up bubble mass challenge while a VR-hackathon took place from the FIXME hackerspace crews.

Gasthaus @ les urbaines
Maya Minder and Serena Galeta doing a super diverse workshop on “Gasthaus: Fermentation and Bacteria”, during the eclectic and interesting festival “les urbaines” in Lausanne. Sharing cultures and traditional knowledge, making kimchi, sauerkraut and distributing the SCOBY. Good crowd of people, chopping up the cabbages and making a beautiful mess on the tablecloth. In the meantime dusjagr works on the CoconutShaker…