Hackteria was invited to hold a workshop (27. November 2019) at the conference of the federal office for environment’s (FOEN also known as BAFU) annual CEO meeting. As a collaboration of Maya Minder (GFB) and Felix Bänteli (actioncy.ch) we have introduced various regional educational community efforts that work on the digital-, food-, media- and bio-technology literacy in Switzeland and giving an insight into DIY practice and DIWO values.
Classic laser-cut stage of the “Mayascope”
Through the format of building DIY microscopes at the workshop we showed some examples of bottom up hacking in policy making, faster and stronger community building and open source hardware making. The main keyword was unlearning, grassroots, hacking and citizen science.
Thanks to an invitation by our colleague Prof. Kwanwoo Shin, who helped us out with some labware for the “BYOP” and has regular projects in Yogyakarta, dusjagr could spend a couple of days in Seoul, presenting at the ODA conference formerly known as the 10th International Conference on Appropriate Technology. While the topics was “Regional Common Prosperity by Science and Technology” and many politicians and other “big shots” where present, we hope to have shown other alternative and grassroot formats of transdisciplinary collaborations, temporary labs, hackteria style prototypes, open science hardware and make a point that in all human activitiy art has to be involved.
Welcome dinner with Prof. Kwanwoo, Mariela Machado (E4C) and surprise guest Toru and Ilda, our partners for upcoming activity in Okinawa
“Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art” – Transdisciplinary Approaches Bridging Digital- and Biotechnologies During the 10 years of Hackteria.org we have established a global network and online knowledge base enabling practitioners from diverse backgrounds to experiment with life science methodologies, from laboratory biology and genetics to environmental monitoring or fermentation. We have explored methods of collaboration, established in the early internet culture, such as hackathons or docusprints as offline physical face-to-face production sessions, as well as online tools for co-writing text-based instructions and lab notes. In this talk, I will give an overview of how our DIWO (Do-It-With-Others) method has lead to highly innovative projects, low-cost laboratory infrastructures, playful and critical prototypes, new workshop methods embracing a radically transdisciplinary approach to bridge the arts and the sciences.
During the upcoming days dusjagr was exploring the city, having a lot of bbq pork and soju and meet-up with the local maker- and biolab scene.
Visitin BioLab Seoul, situated in the middle of the nice and still thriving hardware / small factory district of Euljiro-3, sharing the facility with the Fablab Seoul and other communitiesItewon, BBQ and Soju… Gangnam Style!!
Short visit to the Projektatelier of the “Partizipative Wissenschaftsakademie” … But sorry, we didn’t bring a poster 🙂 Very very fast drafted little leaflet / info brochure about hackteria and our plans to boot a local space dedicated to hackteria network practices bridging art / sciences, biohacking and other playful experimentation. Met some interesting other […]
WHAT IS/NOT WORKING */ Sesi konversasi mengenal kerja bersama Acara ini berlangsung pada: Hari/Tanggal: Rabu, 23 Oktober 2019 Jam: 15:00 – 19:00 WIB Tempat: KUNCI – Study Forum and Collective (http://kunci.or.id) Alamat: Jalan Ngadinegaran MJ III/100 Yogyakarta 55143 Indonesia Organized along with Kunci and lifepatch, the event marks Hackteria’s tenth year as a global network […]
Hackteria coordinated a Temporary Autonomous Laboratory during the early phase of “1000 Ecologies” inviting international researchers, artists and entrepreneurs as participants. The lab as a temporary construction should allow researchers from the fields of biology and engineering to collaborate with artists and so create links between the “two cultures”, the human sciences and the arts. […]
Nice memories of the “first” hackteria workshop happening in NK Berlin in 2009. Freshly eqipped with our wiki page hosted by Yashas Shetty in (Art)ScienceBLR, space art ideas and experiences of hunting tardigrades by Andy Gracie, first prototype of the DIY microscope improved by Urs Gaudenz, the workshop was guided by Kaspar König and Marc […]
Happy to announce an informal Hackteria hack-session and gathering coming up soon in RandeLab, 18-23. April, means over the easter holiday. And we’ll go beyond eggs!! Read more on the wiki and join the online discussion in our forum.
Hackteria has always been focusing strongly on two things: the development of new workshop concepts and establishing a global collaborative network. With this in mind we have invited TeZ Maurizio Martinucci to work together with Urs Gaudenz for one week and look deeper into possibilities of Kirlian photography and a collection of other super-natural imaging techniques that been the […]
About Hackteria
As a community platform hackteria tries to encourage the collaboration of scientists, hackers and artists to combine their experitise, write critical and theoretical reflections, share simple instructions to work with lifescience technologies and cooperate on the organization of workshops, temporary labs, hack-sprints and meetings.
Hackteria operates on a global scale, and is based on a web platform and a wiki for sharing knowledge, which enable anyone to learn but also test different ways of hacking living systems.
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