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Revision as of 10:30, 3 June 2011
Int'l Group/Artist
Andy Gracie (UK,ES)
Andy Gracie is an artist working between various disciplines including installation, sound, video and biological practice. His work is situated between the arts and the sciences, creating situations of exchange between organic and artificial systems. He has shown work across the UK and also in France, Spain, USA, Japan, Mexico and Australia, presented at numerous conferences and seminars and published a number of articles and papers. He is also one of the founding members of the Hackteria project.
Yashas Shetty (IN)
Yashas Shetty is an artist and composer based in Bangalore, India. He is currently an artist in residence at the National Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore and faculty at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. He helped found the Center for Experimental Media Arts at Srishti and has previously taught at design schools across India. His works look at the relationship between language,ecology and technology. He is also one of the founding members of the Hackteria project.
http://www.cema.srishti.edu.in
Špela Petrič (SLO)
Špela Petrič (1980) works as a researcher at the Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. As an artist she focuses on the cross-section of biological sciences, performance and art and collaborates with the Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana. Her recent work includes CTCAG - recognition (lecture-performance, 2011), Cladocera (installation, 2010), Autobiography-Discography (performance, 2008), I am as if I'm not (theatre performance, 2007), LabSUs (video-essay, 2007).
Mac Cowell (USA)
Mac Cowell co-founded of DIYbio.org in 2008, an online hub for biohackers, artists, grad students, garage biologists, amateurs, and non-institutional scientists. Cowell's work explores the development of alternative tools and communities that expand options for biotechnology innovation. He runs a public wetlab in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is currently developing a low-cost gene sequencing kit intended to simplify the process for do-it-yourself users.
Øyvind Mellbye (NO)
Øyvind Mellbye has a background from Bergen National Academy of the Arts,Norway, with a varied artistic practice with different materials and subjects, however with a tendency toward electronics and sound in recent works. Previous ideas has been expressed through site specific painting in the mines of Folldal with pigments from the mine, an electromechanical hologram made from a mangler, a painting of mickey mouse and goofy reflecting over technology, electroacoustic music based on my movement in time and space and a surround system made from cassetteplayers. Øyvind Mellbye has recieved Jacob Weidemanns scholarship for young artists and exhibited at PIKSEL:festival for electronic art, Gallery Design Festa in Tokyo during a tour with the band Mangolassi Marghaug, a nomadic soundartexhibition directed by Ersta Konsthall and various groupexhibitions.
Antti Ternetz (FIN)
Antti Ternetz is equal parts artist and naturalist. He has worked and filmed throughout the North, from the Ice Sea to Siberia, and as far south as South Thailand and Greece. His works are at the crossroads of media-,bio- and urban arts, Sci/Art, nature, documentary, installations and EcoArt. Tenetz has contributed multimedia and documentaries to science exhibitions ranging in subject from arctic reindeer herders to glacial movements. He is also actively participating as Vj in urban arts events. The work he is doing about the wild nature goes far beyond all the usual clichés and the "green-hype" movement. His works have exhibited widely including Thessaloniki Contemporary art museum of Greece 2009, Academy of Fine Arts Katowice 2009( e-mobilart program), Tromsø Kunstforening 2010, and Murmansk Art Museum 2010. Winner of three Finish national snow sculpting championships (1997 Gold, 2003 Bronze, 2005 Silver), Tenetz personifies a melding of the artistic and arctic.
Christian Faubel (DE)
Christian Faubel is a researcher and artist interested in autonomous behavior and how it may emerge out of the interaction of very simple systems. In his artistic work he experiments with minimal low-level electronics and simple robots that generate patterns. Exhibitions, concerts, workshops (selection): garage festival, The Art of the Overhead Malmoe, transmediale Berlin, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Palazzo di Arte Naples, Mediamatic Amsterdam, Dokfest Kassel, Interfiction Kassel, Piksel festival Bergen, 104 Paris, Sonokids Belgium.
http://derstrudel.org
Kuaishen Auson (DE)
Verena Friedrich (DE)
Verena Friedrich is an artist from Germany usually working in the field of Media Arts who develops concept-driven artworks in the form of installations, objects and robotics. Her work includes the use of electronics, digital and sculptural media as well as the use of biological material. Shown internationally, her work has for example been granted the International Media Art Award for Science and Art from ZKM Karlsruhe, a nomination for Transmediale award as well as the sponsorship award of the Saxon Ministry of Science and the Fine Arts. She is currently undertaking a 4-months residency at SymbioticA – Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at the University of Western Australia in Perth.
Maja Smrekar (SLO)
Swiss Participants
Marc Dusseiller (CH)
Sachiko Hirosue (JP/CH)
Sachiko Hirosue works as a researcher at the interface of biomaterials and lymphatic physiology in the Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Her interests in bio art derives from the encounter at the Subtle Technologies Festival (Toronto, Canada), which she co-chaired from 2005-2008.
Pei-Wen Liu (TW/CH)
Tobias Hoffmann (DE/CH)
Urs Gaudenz (CH)
Visitors
Alejo Duque (COL/CH)
Aurelio Lucchesi (CH)
Adrian Ranga (CA/CH)
In preparation, contacted
Georg Tremmel (AT/JP)
Georg Tremmel studied Visual Media Art (Visuelle Mediengestaltung) at the University for Applied Art in Vienna and Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art in London, where he started his ongoing collaboration with Shiho Fukuhara. Their works were awarded several distinctions, including the NESTA Creative Pioneer Award, the Science Museum's Product of the Future Award, a 1st prize at VIPER Media Art Festival and a 2nd Prize at the Biotech in Business Forum in Cambridge, UK.
HONF
Muhammad Hidayat/Togar (IND)
Nur Akbar Arrofatullah (IND)
The house of natural fiber, Yogyakarta, is a New Media art laboratory, founded in 1999. They concentrate on the principles of critique and innovation. Since the beginning, the house of natural fiber has consistently focused on cultural development and New Media art, running numerous New Media art projects and workshops. In every project we concentrate on interactivity with people and environments. Thinking forward, positive and creative is becoming a vision for this community. In the implementation of this vision, in every program, they work towards the development of art with technology. This desire to contemplate the future of technology and art, is an important endeavour for the technology itself.
