Hackteria Network Zines Library
Contents
- 1 Hackteria Network Zines Library
- 2 DIY Biology
- 3 Soil and Ecology
- 4 Sound and Electronics
- 5 Transfeminism & Body Politics
- 6 Art-Science
- 7 Food and Fermentation
- 7.1 Bacterial nano-cellulose
- 7.2 Cheese CRISPR — Japanese
- 7.3 Micul Micul seaweed
- 7.4 Ferment Lab Part I: Intro
- 7.5 Ferment Lab Part II: Workshops & Space
- 7.6 Ferment Lab Part III: Cabbage Dance Party
- 7.7 Ferment Lab Part IV: Art Science Experiments
- 7.8 Ferment Lab Part V: Exhibition & Reflections
- 7.9 Food Phreaking Issue 00
- 7.10 Food Phreaking Issue 03
- 8 Community Events
- 9 Oddities
Hackteria Network Zines Library
Welcome to the Arai-eek Zine Library. This archive contains analytical dossiers, summaries, and links to high-quality print files for DIY biology, art-science, and transhackfeminist zines.
DIY Biology
DIY Microscopy Book
- Format: A5, 64pp
- Language: Not specified
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Comprehensive DIY microscopy manual documenting the conversion of standard webcams into digital microscopes. It covers hardware hacking, optical inversion, and stage construction, providing a hacker-friendly protocol for exploring the microscopic pluriverse (includes both Full-colour and Short editions in the folder).◈
Synthetic Biology for Artists & Designers
- Format: Leaflet, 12pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: A landmark historical document from the iGEM 2009 ArtScience team. Authored collectively by IIT Bombay, NCBS Bangalore, Srishti School, and early Hackteria members, this handbook radically democratizes lab biology. It translates complex academic protocols—like bacterial transformation, DNA elution, mini prep, and gel electrophoresis—into accessible, DIY "kitchen-lab" language, closing with the open-source ethos: "Feel free to share, remix, mutilate and add."◈
Soil and Ecology
Soil Microscopy Guide
- Format: A5, 12pp
- Language: Indonesian
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: "Panduan singkat mikroskopi tanah" — practical guide to soil microscopy. Covers: microbial ecosystem importance, soil identification methods, sample preparation, systematic scanning. Emphasizes relationship-building with soil organisms.◈
Circular Soil Chromatography
- Format: A5, 12pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Circular soil chromatography workshop edition. History of method (mid-20th century, biodynamic farming). Technique: filter paper + silver nitrate + soil extract = colour patterns revealing soil health. Emphasis on subjective/educational value.◈
Soil life illustration (PNG)
- Format: Not specified
- Language: Not specified
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: A fragment of the Arai-eek knowledge network, archived for the pluriverse.◈
DIRT Handbook
- Format: A5, 20pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Produced by artscienceBLR (2011). An artistic and scientific exploration of soil ("dirt"), featuring DIY biology methodologies and ecological reflections.◈
Fungal Bioreactor Guide
- Format: A5, 12pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Low-tech method for producing soil inoculant with high fungal/bacterial density. Covers soil food-web theory, regenerative agriculture rationale, practical bioreactor construction.◈
Sound and Electronics
Noise Mini-Zine
- Format: A3 full-colour, cover + 8pp
- Language: Not specified
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Image-heavy noise/sound art zine. Created with Adobe InDesign.◈
Wurmophon leaflet
- Format: A4 landscape, 2pp
- Language: Not specified
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Instruction leaflet for the Wurmophon instrument.◈
GBMN workshopology
- Format: 32pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: "A Workshopology Zine" by Arnont Nongyao & Marc Dusseiller (2023). This extensive document traces the lineage of a specific noise-generating circuit from its origins with Khvay Loeung (a funeral sound master in Phnom Penh) through its replication across Southeast Asia and Europe. It heavily emphasizes "workshopology" as an artistic practice, teaching how to build audio synthesizers from pencil graphite, LDR sensors, and trash.◈
Fanzina Chapters 1–3
- Format: Leaflet BW, 6+8+8pp
- Language: Multi
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: A wildly chaotic, heavily collaged three-part underground fanzina. It operates entirely as an image-based visual assault on traditional publishing norms, featuring densely packed DIY graphics, photocopied punk aesthetics, and cryptic diagrams that blur the line between technical manual and abstract art.◈
Sensewalking Flux
- Format: 30pp
- Language: English/Indonesian
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: "Sensewalking Flux" documentation by Helmi Hardian & Angela Sunaryo (2025). Focuses on DIY electronics, sensory walks, and translating environmental data into sound.◈
Krautsource Energy
- Format: 8pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Explores the intersection of food fermentation and energy harvesting. Documents DIY bio-batteries powered by sauerkraut and other fermented organic matter.◈
Powerharvest Fanzine
- Format: 1pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Short, single-page poster/fanzine covering DIY power harvesting concepts and lo-fi energy generation techniques.◈
Transfeminism & Body Politics
Open Source Estrogen
- Format: A3 full-colour, cover + 8pp
- Language: Bilingual EN/ES
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Transfeminist biohacking publication. Topics: body sovereignty, kitchen-lab estrogen synthesis, endocrine disruptors as environmental pollutants, binary gender critique through biochemistry. Concept of "Bio-Lenta" (slow bio-lence). Open Source Estrogen as tactical subversion — detecting/extracting estrogenic compounds from polluted ecosystems. Connection to Mary Tsang's work.◈
Alcuirmia — queer ecology
- Format: A5, 56pp
- Language: English/Spanish/Portuguese
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Queer ecology meets herbal medicine. Result of Bio.Autonomy Life workshops in Galicia/Portugal. Chapters: Alcuirmia concept, Mary Hebraica, witches & ancient knowledge, natural queer aberrations, herbal queer medicine, situated knowledge. Connected to BioTranslab, BioArt Lab, Bioxeno, Chaos Fungorum, Cultivamos Cultura.◈
TransHackFeministas
- Format: Full-colour, 14pp
- Language: Spanish
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Documentation of TransHackFeminist days at Wetlab Hangar, Barcelona (June 2021). Organized by Ce Quimera + Gaia Leandra. Questions explored: What is transhackfeminism? How do we care in these practices? How to establish interspecies bonds without colonial/anthropocentric logics? Part of Biofriction project.◈
Paula Pin / BioTranslab
- Format: Full-colour, 36pp
- Language: Not specified
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Paula Pin's BioTranslab documentation — image-heavy.◈
Trans & non-conforming scientists
- Format: Full-colour, 20pp (letter size)
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: "Vol 1 — The Stuff of Dreams" — zine by trans and gender non-conforming scientists. Contributors: C.M. Fields, Naamloos Kind van Riemsdijk, Riley DeHority, Crys Clitheroe, Isaac, Román Ramos Báez, Robin Aguilar, Emma Reich, Atom J Lesiak Lovecloud PhD. Poetry, essays on gender in science, comics, personal narratives.◈
GP Zine — small format
- Format: A4 landscape, 6pp
- Language: Not specified
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: A fast-paced, punk-aesthetic Transfeminist zine. Printed by Marcjono in a DIY Indonesian zine workshop format, it explores radical gender politics through dense visual collages and "Marry Magic".◈
Art-Science
HackteriaLab 2014 Book
- Format: Full book, 121 pages, 20×25 cm
- Language: English (translated from Indonesian)
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Reflections on the 2-week HLab14 gathering. Editors: Adelina Luft, Grace Samboh. 30+ contributors including Timbil, Andreas Siagian, Marc Dusseiller, Mary Tsang, Robin Scheibler, Sachiko Hirosue. Topics: BioArt, DIY biology, DIWO methodology, citizen science, traditional knowledge revival, environmental monitoring. Hosted by LIFEPATCH. Preceded by HLab10 (Dock18), HLab11 (Romainmotier), HLab13 (Bangalore).◈
Taxidermia zine
- Format: A5, 12pp
- Language: Not specified
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Image-heavy taxidermia/bio-art documentation.◈
Biohackers timeline
- Format: Special 105×210mm, 44pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: History of an open-source poster by Cat Kramer (Center for Genomic Gastronomy). Documents 10-year journey of "WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BIOHACKERS" poster from 2011 Bangalore. Interviews with Marc Dusseiller, Maya Minder, Paula Pin, Timbil/Lifepatch.◈
Digital Naturalism Labs
- Format: Full-colour, 16pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Digital Naturalism Laboratories, Gamboa, Panama. By Dr. Andrew Quitmeyer & Kitty Quitmeyer. Topics: bubble science as environmental celebration replacement for plastic trash, punk philosophy of sharing/freedom, mixed-material globule research. CC0 Public Domain.◈
BAJRA DIWO
- Format: Full-colour, 20pp, A4 landscape
- Language: Not specified
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Image-heavy.◈
thGAP booklet
- Format: Special 148×178mm, 48pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: In the muggy terrarium of the Mind thGAP, a disobedient garden flourishes—germlines rewired not for health or enhancement, but for the sheer, unruly aesthetics of creative genetic redesign. The GOSPHA plasmid drips like a cyber-tropical nectar, ferrying bioart hacks between species, while the Creative Germline Construct Bank sprouts a riot of feral diversities, scripted in the wet, messy poetry of Adam Zaretsky, Mary Maggic, and Marc Dusseiller’s collaborative dream. Here, the Human Genome is but compost for post-normative orchids, blooming outside every sanctioned blueprint.◈
Microzine
- Format: A5, 8pp
- Language: Not specified
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Image-heavy community microzine.◈
AI CRISPR illustrations
- Format: 20pp, 126×210mm
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: A brilliant speculative biology zine by dusjagr (September 2022). Utilizing early Midjourney AI, it visualizes "CRISPR" and "Genetically Modified Humans" through the aesthetic lens of 19th-century Victorian anatomy books and botanical herbariums. The zine acts as a temporal paradox, presenting future biotechnology as antique archival discoveries.◈
Open Letter Lulu & Nana
- Format: 21pp, letter size
- Language: Chinese (Mandarin)
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: A critical BioArt/Bioethics document by Adam Zaretsky, fully translated into Mandarin. It addresses the 2018 CRISPR babies (Lulu and Nana) engineered by He Jiankui. The text boldly reframes human germline editing not just as a medical breakthrough, but as an irreversible, aesthetic, and cultural act of BioArt, proposing radical new regulatory frameworks for "in-vivo human variation" and genetic monoculture.◈
Triple-narrow poster
- Format: A3 full-colour, 3pp
- Language: Not specified
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Triple-narrow format poster, image-heavy.◈
Biohaha Build Your Own Lab
- Format: 22pp
- Language: English/Indonesian
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Created by Helmi Hardian & Angela Sunaryo (2025). A vibrant, deeply practical guide documenting the Biohaha and Sensewalking methodologies. It focuses on the rapid prototyping of DIY lab equipment from consumer junk, mapping local ecosystems through multisensory exploration, and embedding communal bio-hacking practices directly into local neighborhoods.◈
IGEM Comic
- Format: 64pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: A comic book produced by artscienceBLR for the 2010 iGEM competition. Explores synthetic biology concepts through a creative, visual narrative.◈
Food and Fermentation
Bacterial nano-cellulose
- Format: A5, 16pp
- Language: English (translated from Indonesian by Ir. Adang Suryana)
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: How to grow bacterial nano-cellulose at home using coconut water. Covers coconut plant biology, fermentation process, Acetobacter xylinum cultivation. CC-BY-SA 4.0.◈
Cheese CRISPR — Japanese
- Format: 1 page, 5.7 MB
- Language: Japanese
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: An intensely compressed, single-page visual treatise examining the intersection of ancient cheese-making fermentation techniques and modern CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing. It juxtaposes the biological machinery of bacteria defending against phages in dairy cultures with contemporary biotechnological aesthetics.◈
Micul Micul seaweed
- Format: 12pp
- Language: English/Chinese
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: "A slippery seaweed project" created by Maya Minder and printed in China (2025) by Art Matters. It delves deep into DIY crystallography and the material properties of agar. Featuring an interactive "Claim Your Own Candy Crush" section alongside practical Chinese-language recipes for cooking seaweed, the zine operates as both a culinary guide and a material-science manifesto.◈
Ferment Lab Part I: Intro
- Format: 8pp
- Language: English/French
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Authored by Andrew Gryf Paterson & Pixelache (2017). This introductory volume lays the conceptual foundation for the Ferment Lab project at Le Shadok in Strasbourg. It treats bacterial fermentation not just as a metabolic process, but as a deeply social, artistic, and community-binding practice across the Alsace region.◈
Ferment Lab Part II: Workshops & Space
- Format: 12pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: The operational core of the Ferment Lab. This zine documents the actual spatial design of the pop-up laboratory, detailing specific equipment lists, workshop protocols, and the crucial "meta-documentation" strategies used by facilitators Hakim & Dorothea to multiply the lab's impact across local networks.◈
Ferment Lab Part III: Cabbage Dance Party
- Format: 6pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: A beautiful ethnographic and practical documentation of the "Krütt Trepple Dance Party." It revives the historical, communal act of cabbage stomping for sauerkraut production, intertwining microbial culturing with local folk music, physical labor, and community celebration.◈
Ferment Lab Part IV: Art Science Experiments
- Format: 8pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Shifts the focus toward abstract, experimental microbiology. Andrew Gryf Paterson details his "Bacterial Love Letters" project, utilizing agar plates and microbial growth as an unpredictable, living medium for artistic expression, questioning the boundaries between scientific isolation and creative contamination.◈
Ferment Lab Part V: Exhibition & Reflections
- Format: 14pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: The project's post-mortem, centered around the final exhibition at Laboratoire de Demain. It catalogs the physical artifacts produced over the residency, analyzes which elements of the pop-up lab proved most resilient, and offers philosophical reflections on temporary, autonomous bio-spaces.◈
Food Phreaking Issue 00
- Format: 29pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Issue 00 of Food Phreaking published by The Center for Genomic Gastronomy (2013). It explores Singapore as a food utopia—a perfect place with diverse imported foods but where eaters, not farmers, are the major agents of selection. It examines how Singapore's agri-eco-culinary system will adapt to 21st-century biotechnological challenges.◈
Food Phreaking Issue 03
- Format: 42pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Issue 03 "Gut Gardening" published by The Center for Genomic Gastronomy (2016). Explores experiments, exploits, and explorations of the human food system focusing on the human microbiome. It includes short texts by experts about their favorite microorganisms and reflects on the relationship between brains, guts, and diets.◈
Community Events
Wormolution poster
- Format: A3 full-colour poster
- Language: Not specified
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Event poster for Hackteria TAL "Wormolution" at Le Commun, Geneva (Sept 2019). International participants: Kat Austen (UK), Shih Wei Chieh (TW), Roland van Dierendonck (NL), Marc Dusseiller (CH), Eleonore Eisath (IT), Urs Gaudenz (CH), Paula Pin (ES), Masato Takemura (JP). Supported by Pro Helvetia, PlasticTwist EU Horizon 2020.◈
Homemade 2025 poster
- Format: A3 full-colour poster
- Language: Not specified
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: "Homemade 2025" event poster, image-heavy.◈
GOSH 2026 Kathmandu
- Format: A4 landscape, 2pp
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: A wildly chaotic, heavily collaged three-part underground fanzina. It operates entirely as an image-based visual assault on traditional publishing norms, featuring densely packed DIY graphics, photocopied punk aesthetics, and cryptic diagrams that blur the line between technical manual and abstract art.◈
WaftLab OpenLab
- Format: BW, 24pp
- Language: Not specified
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Mostly image-based documentation of WaftLab OpenLab 2024 event.◈
Mingapa Bigini
- Format: 1pp
- Language: Indonesian
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Image-based, single-page fanzine (2016) created during community events. Mostly visual with minimal text.◈
Oddities
Rat Catcher Zine
- Format: A3-BW, cover + 8pp inside
- Language: English
◈ ARCHIVIST SUMMARY: Reprint/remix of a Victorian-era Manchester rat-catching manual (1898). Includes period pest control techniques, historical advertisements, and DIY pest management knowledge. Published under "Ike Matthews" name. Printed by the Friendly Societies' Printing Company.◈
