HLabX Reflections Zurich

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Hackteria X Why ZET

Workshops, Discussions, Fanzines and Memorabilia

HLabX was a series of residencies and concentrated gatherings of people working transdisciplinary who are interested in creative biological fields and any other areas which intrigue the critical interaction across art and science. It was held over the last 12 months with activities in Taiwan, Indonesia and Switzerland and culminated this April during Oki Wonder Lab in Okinawa, Japan.

We will bring together our global and local collaborators to reflect on the last decade of activities (X), dream about our collaborative futures (Why) and launch our new local programme "Zentrum für Experimentelle Transdisziplinarität" (ZET) with the innauguration of our new OpenScience Lab in the shared hackerspace collective of Bitwäscherei, in the heart of Zürich.

Date: 11. & 12. July 2020

Programme

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Saturday

  • 14:00 Open Doors
  • 15:00 Workshop I
  • 17:00 Talks folloed by Open Discussions
  • 21:00 BioVisuals and Sound Performances

Sunday

  • 12:00 Open Brunch and Food Experiments
  • 15:00 Workshop II

Memorabilia

HLab14-Exhibition

Zines

Participants

Marc Dusseiller aka dusjagr (Switzerland)

photo by: Adam Zaretzky, Make Your Own CRISPR-Babies Workshop

Marc Dusseiller aka dusjagr is a nomadic researcher and workshopologist. He is part of the Center for Alternative Coconut Research and co-founder of SGMK and the Global Hackteria Network, Co-organiser of GOSH, Gathering for Open Science Hardware. He loves making DIWO laboratories for creative biological experimentation and works in an integral way, combining science, art and education. He has worked as guest faculty and mentor at various schools, Srishti, Bangalore (IN), UCSB (USA) and in Switzerland, FHNW, HEAD, HSLU, ETHZ. He lives and works in Zürich, Yogyakarta and Taipei. He also loves synthesizers and coconuts.


Dominic Mahnic (Slovenia)

Robotic painted image of tardigrade recorded with DIY microscope


Urs Gaudenz / GaudiLabs (Switzerland)

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Urs Gaudenz is an engineer and interdisciplinary scholar working in Lucerne, Switzerland. He was born 1971 in Seattle USA. He got his master in science of Microtechnologoy from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. Subsequent to that he attended Post-Graduate programs in international business and innovation-management. In 2016 completed the course of study in the Principles and Applications of Synthetic Biology as directed by Georg Curch, Professor of Genetics at Harward Medical School. He is founder of GaudiLabs, a third space for third culture. He is a founding member and member of the board of Hackteria International Society. He is currently on the faculty of the Lucerne School for Applied Science and Arts. In his professional practice, Urs Gaudenz makes use of various forms of work and expression such as prototype development, open scientific research and collaborative workshops. He is combining his different backgrounds to explore new technological and cultural fields and his works often emerges out of the void in this intersection. Remarkable in his work is the wide span from speculative and futuristic to very functional and applied. He worked with and was inspired by Dr. Marc Dusseiller - dusjagr labs, the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society, the GynePunk, BioDesign for the Real World, Sci | Art NanoLab Summer Institute at UCLA, LifePatch. He was invited to give workshops or exhibit projects at renown institutions and festivals such as Ars Electronica - Projekt Genesis, ISEA - International Symposium on Electronic Art, DOCK18, space for media cultures of the world, Kapelica Gallery / BioTehna, Schloss Werdenberg, N/O/D/E festival, Medialab-Prado Madrid, CYNETART-Festival - Trans-Media-Akademie.

http://www.gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/

Maya Minder (Switzerland)

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Maya Minder‘s (b. 1983, lives in Zürich) Gasthaus combines artistic, curatorial, and activist interests into communal culinary events at various locations. For the Klöntal Triennial, she designed the opening dinner and also offers a series of workshops, including a biohacking workshop and a fermentation workshop, over the course of the Triennial‘s duration. Fermentation repeatedly features as a central aspect of her work, not only literally but also as a metaphor for social ferment, agitation, and incitation to resistance. Minder opposes the structures of food industry by promoting local selforganization, ecological sustainability, and community. She resuscitates traditional food productions methods with a certain relish, saving them from otherwise being forgotten. Her interests span the fields of art, politics, and biohacking, and she often invites other protagonists from these and various other fields to participate in the process of communal exchange. Facilitating interdisciplinary, intercultural dialogue amongst the participants is one of the primary goals of her practice.

http://mayaminder.ch

Julian Chollet (Germany)

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Julian is a (no)mad scientist, curious student and informal teacher with a background in molecular biology. He is working on the endless and underexplored biodiverity of microbes, fungi and phages - with the aim to liberate the world from microphobia through workshopology, fermentation and microscopy. His current main project focuses on creative learning environments and public participation in science with emphasis on the invisible world.

https://mikrobiomik.org/en

Akvilė Paukštytė (Lithuania)

Lifepatch (Indonesia)

Baggenstos/Rudolf (Switzerland)

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Baggenstos/Rudolf work incessantly to discover new aesthetic possibilities of multiple natural and artificial worlds.They turned their studio into a biohacker art lab, where water lentils grow in giant aquariums and mushrooms hang on the walls. Heidy Baggenstos and Andreas Rudolf both achieved a Master in Fine Arts at the Zurich University of Arts in 2015, and they have been working together since 2005. http://www.baggenstos-rudolf.ch/

Concerning the soil project, we are interested in the many worms living in the soil. Namely, there should be bioluminescent worms, or worms which are bioluminescent at least for a limited time. We heard of findings of these worms, but the sites were always limited to France. Live such worms in our ground too? And we want to see them with our own eyes. We are interested in what they use the light. Do they need it as a kind of communication?

Glow of the earthworm project: https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/Glow_of_the_earthworm


Shih Wei Chieh aka Abao (Taiwan)

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Shih Wei Chieh is a media artist based in Taipei. His wearable art, laser performance have been presented by many global events such as CTM Berlin, SXSW, YouFab, Modern Body Festival, University Technology Sydney etc. His work “Laser Dye” project in 2015 combines laser projection and cyanotype photography innovate the digital printing technology for 3D garments, shoes-wear. He’s also the founder of “Tribe Against Machine”, a social engaged project that invites media artist, e-textile artist to work with Taiwan Atayal tribe community, explore the new role of artist in remote society, how technology should evolve by reflecting to the crisis of the world after capital.


Roland Fischer (Switzerland)

Wolfgang Spahn (Germany)

Corinna Mattner (Switzerland)

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Corinna Mattner is founder of the label Romy Hood within she unites her passion for vintage materials, creative transformation and fighting for a better future. With her background as scenographer and organizer of exhibitions she is one of the main brains behind Fashion Revolution Switzerland an helped the movement become big in Zürich, spreading it over Switzerland. For her collections of unique fashion pieces she uses high quality vintage material and outcasted clothes which she turns around, drapes, cuts apart and reconstructs. Since 2017 she is following a series of hybrid escapes for which she is teaming up with biohackers and performance artist, experimenting with eco and bacteria print and performs musical sewing on stage.


BadLab (Global)

Ewen Chardronnet (France)

Toru Ryu Oyama (Japan)

Adam Zaretzky (United States)

Venue: Kunstraum Walcheturm

Der Kunstraum Walcheturm versteht sich als Ort, wo zeitgenössische Kunst präsentiert, vermittelt und zur Diskussion gestellt wird. Mit seinem Programm, das zeitgenössische Kunst, neue Medien, Video und Film, neue Musik, experimentelle elektronische Musik, Performance und Sound Art umspannt, steht der Walcheturm zwischen Kunsthallen, Galerien und Offspaces. Er bietet nationalen wie internationalen Kunstschaffenden und einem differenzierten Publikum ein anspruchsvolles Experimentierfeld.

Der Kunstraum Walcheturm lotet zeitgenössische Strömungen innerhalb der Schweizer Kunstszene aus und führt Künstler_innen aus der Schweiz mit Künstler_innen aus anderen Ländern zusammen. Dank seiner internationalen Verbindungen zu Kunstinstitutionen, Projekten und Netzwerken ähnlicher Ausrichtung, mit Workshops, Diskussionsveranstaltungen und einem virtuellen Archiv fördert der Walcheturm die wichtige und anspruchsvolle Vermittlung neuer Kunstformen und den Dialog mit der Öffentlichkeit.

Die gut besuchten Veranstaltungen zeigen, dass sich der Walcheturm in den vergangenen Jahren als nicht-kommerzielle Institution erfolgreich positionieren konnte. Gezielt werden Initiativen im Bereich der digitalen Medien vorgestellt und damit Schnittstellen zwischen den verschiedenen Ausdrucksformen gebildet. Hier werden Entwicklungen und Projekte eines erweiterten Kunstbegriffes beleuchtet und präsentiert. Und hier wird der Zugang zu einer lebendigen Kultur geschaffen, die sich in den Grenzzonen des Kunstbetriebs befindet.