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| + | This is the day to learn how to keep your working area clean and prepare your stock solutions. It is also an introduction to the lab and the implications of DIY Tissue Culture in the Bioart arena. This sounds basic but in an art context you have a change to try new materials and sterilize them for use in your experiment, creative powders and liquids can be invented and autoclaved for novel reagents. We are opening the range of theory and experimental design for tissue culture that is not for emulation of scientific research, but for semi-living/undead sculptures and disembodied new media play. It is also a time to consider a care plan for your cultured cells, including a turn towards understanding their non-human, non-organismic needs and desires. | ||
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Revision as of 10:04, 21 October 2023
Contents
Hands-on Wetlab Bioart Workshop in Tissue Culture with Adam Zaretsky and Lyndsey Walsh
Overview of the history and art history of tissue culture, the social, bioethical and pure hype dimensions of applications like: lab grown meat, bioart medical arts and engineering of artificial organs, medical tourism for stem cell therapy, reducing animal use in environmental toxicology and how to make trangenic embryonic stem cell clones by the millions.
Location: Hackteria ZET - Open Science Lab
Hackteria ZET - Open Science Lab, 3.Floor, Bitwäscherei, Neue Hard 12, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland
Since summer 2020 we have initiated a new local programme in Switzerland under the name «Hackteria – Zentrum für Experimentelle Transdisziplinarität» and we proudly started a new space, as part of Bitwäscherei shared hackerspace collective, with dedicated facilities for the «Open Science Lab». A laboratory, a social learning space, a place of work and research, a transdisciplinary meeting point for designers, hackers, artist, foodies and fermentation activitists.
Schedule
6 - 8. November 2023
Workshop: 14:00 - 19:00 Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday
If you can't do all three days, you are also welcome to participate a single afternoon (or two)
Public BBQ: 20:00 - 22:30 Tuesday, 7. Nov: BBQ & Participative Tissue Culture Performance
Registration
Please regsiter in advance to be informed of preparations and reserve your particpation!
For now... send an email to: dusjagr
Free prizing model to support the mentors, travel and material costs:
Full participation all three days: 120 CHF + donation (up to 250 CHF would be appreciated)
Join for 1 Day: 50 chf + donation
BBQ and performance: donation
Registration fee can be paid on site in cash or via Twint to 077 993 08 77.
Description
Day One
Tissue Culture Bioart - Introduction and Preparation Monday November 6th 14 – 19h This is the day to learn how to keep your working area clean and prepare your stock solutions. It is also an introduction to the lab and the implications of DIY Tissue Culture in the Bioart arena. This sounds basic but in an art context you have a change to try new materials and sterilize them for use in your experiment, creative powders and liquids can be invented and autoclaved for novel reagents. We are opening the range of theory and experimental design for tissue culture that is not for emulation of scientific research, but for semi-living/undead sculptures and disembodied new media play. It is also a time to consider a care plan for your cultured cells, including a turn towards understanding their non-human, non-organismic needs and desires.
Day Two
Day Three
Mentors
Adam Zaretzky
Zaretsky is a Wet-Lab Art Practitioner mixing Ecology, Biotechnology, Non-human Relations, Body Performance and Gastronomy. Zaretsky stages lively, hands-on bioart production labs based on topics such as: foreign species invasion (pure/impure), radical food science (edible/inedible), jazz bioinformatics (code/flesh), tissue culture (undead/semi-alive), transgenic design issues (traits/desires), interactive ethology (person/machine/non-human) and physiology (performance/stress). A former researcher at the MIT department of biology, for the past decade Zaretsky has been teaching an experimental bioart class called VivoArts at: San Francisco State University (SFSU), SymbioticA (UWA), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), University of Leiden’s The Arts and Genomic Centre (TAGC) and with the Waag Society. He has also taught DIY-IGM (Do-It-Yourself Inherited Genetic Modification of the Human Genome) at New York University (NYU) and Carnegie Melon University (CMU). He also runs a public life arts school: VASTAL (The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd.) His art practice focuses on an array of legal, ethical, social and libidinal implications of biotechnological materials and methods with a focus on transgenic humans.
- http://www.emutagen.com/
- https://www.hackteria.org/projects/artist-in-residence-adam-zaretsky/
- https://thgap.hackteria.org
Lyndsey Walsh
Lyndsey Walsh is a US artist, writer, and researcher based in Berlin, Germany. Lyndsey has a Bachelor’s in Individualized Studies from New York University and a Master’s in Biological Arts with Distinction from SymbioticA Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at the University of Western Australia. Lyndsey’s practice fuses speculative narratives and horror with autoethnographic investigations into the ruptures created by technology in the corporality of culture. Lyndsey sets out to question the cultural binaries of human-non-human, diseased-healthy, and life-machine using Crip, Queer, and intersectional feminist frameworks. Currently, Lyndsey is the first and only residing artist of the Department of Experimental Biophysics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Their work has been featured in events and with institutions such as Frieze Art Week New York, the Humboldt Forum, the Ural Biennial, the Berlin Biennale, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Transmediale/CTM, and more.
Guests
H C-(M)
H.C-(M) (aka Hoçâ C-M / hoça-dossil-fuel) is a writer, graphic designer and cultural vector who focuses on interviews-as-templates to explore topics fuelled by Silicon Valley criticism, guerilla media, surveillance aesthetics and technology + information. C-(M)'s work has been featured on platforms such as the Institute of Network Cultures, The Wrong Biennale, TTT in Art & Science, The Quietus, Nero Editions, Foreign Objekt and Metal Magazine.
Callum Siegmund
Callum Siegmund is an emerging bio/nano-artist who, since 2020, has been a resident at SymbioticA developing his practice of DNA nanosculptures. These nanosculptures draw on multiple different nanotechnologies (including DNA Origami) to control and sculpt DNAs form at the nanoscale; interweaving double helices into imperceptible 3D objects whose form and sequence have embedded peotics. His works reflect on the absurdity of bio and nanotechnology, expressing absurdity through humour and satire as a means of epistemologically critiquing and analysing the knowledge systems which construct our beliefs; be them scientific, religious, or conspiratorial
Prior to 2020, Callum spent 5 years studying neuroscience and skeletal muscle tissue engineering, learning the language of science with the end goal being to create biotechnological artworks. His passion and skill led to working with internationally esteemed artists such as Guy Ben-Ary and Nathan Thompson on their project Bricolage, which won an honorable mention award at the 2022 Ars Electronica.
Funding and support
Surf and Turf Tissue Culture BBQ is a collaborative Programme with the TissueCulture Study Group (ZHdK), Hackteria ZET – Open Science Lab and Adam Zaretsky, and is supported by our friends and hosts from the local community around the hackerspace collective Bitwäscherei, RandeLab, GaudiLabs and many more!
DONATIONS WELCOME!!
NFP – non-fundable project : The Hackteria ZET programme series sadly has not yet been successfully raising fundings, approval by the Kt. of Zurich was rejected, other sources delayed. In the meantime we are full on continuing and offering our enthusiasm to make this happen and can rely on some small profits from recent crypto donations to the HCFF (Hackteria Crpyto Food Fund). Feel free to support our activities with donations on the ethereum chain (ERC-20 tokens only) or paypal.
