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DIYbio Boston – Hackteria Zürich Meeting

Last weekend, Mac Cowell from DIYbio Boston, came over for a visit to zurich. After some great discussions about enabling tools for the Bio-Hobbyist, Citizen Scientist and the future of Synthetic Biology, we had some time off to do some real Bio-Boating-Chilling-in-the-Forest-and-Beer sessions…

Furthermore Mac left me his fully automated stage for the DIY-microscope, we modded it a little bit to hold the hacked Playstation3 Eye and experimented around with some homemade microfluidics, DIY-Lab-on-a-Chip visions are just around the corner. Looking forward for global meet-up maybe next spring…

Hall of Fame, DIY microscopes
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Forum Hackteria @ Dock 18, Zürich | 6-11 April 2010

Finally the first Forum Hackteria will take place this April, 6-11, in Dock18, Zürich. The forum will be a combination of the 4 days hackteria lab, a hackteria show on friday evening and a public hackeria|DIY microscopy workshop on the weekend.
For more information visit the hackteria lab wiki
Due to an update on the hackteria site, [...]

Hackteria@playaround.cc(@NTUA,Taipei,Taiwan)|7th-11th Dec 2009.

PlayAround 09 –TechNomads – is the second edition of an intensely parallel and collaborative workshop of mediating the creative use of FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) and DIY practices to an audience of young students and artists of diverse backgrounds. It combines the knowledge creation and open distribution of new media technologies and contemporary art [...]

Biolectronix for artists workshop at Piksel09

bioelectronix for artist
19-21 November, Bergen, Norway
Piksel09, f[re](e){op}[en]able
Piksel is a festival and community for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source audiovisual software, hardware and art.
Date: 19-21 November 2009
Time: Thurs 19th, 12pm to 6pm, Fri 20th and Sun 21st, 11am to 6pm.
Location: Nøstegaten 42, Bergen.
detailed description can be found on the piksel website
the workshop [...]

Hackteria @ Videotage, Hong Kong, 14-15 nov 09

Talks
Session 1:
hackteria | open source biological art
Time: 2:00-2:30pm
Session 2:
Transdisciplinary Approaches on Education at the Art & Science Interface
Time: 2:40-3:10pm
Location: Videotage, Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kln, HK
Workshop
bioelectronix for artists
Date: 14-15 November 2009
Time: Sat, 3:30 -7:30pm (4 hrs), Sun, 2:00-6:00pm (4 hrs)
Location: Videotage, Unit 13, Cattle Depot [...]

What is biolectronix?

First of all, bioelectronix must be distinguished from bioelectronics; bioelectronics is the emerging science of biomedical technology centred around such devices as ‘lab on a chip’ and implantable neural interfaces. Complex and expensive technologies from the closely guarded and secret world of cutting edge scientific research. Bioelectronix, on the other hand, is the appropriation and development by artists of certain aspects of these technologies in an (generally) open-source and (generally) do-it-yourself environment. Relatively cheap and simple technologies which can be shared, improved and distributed through an open network of users and enthusiasts.

upcoming workshops this fall

There will be a series of workshops all around the world this fall.
hackteria: bioelectronix for artists
14 & 15 November, Hongkong

presented by Videotage alongside with Microwave International Media Art Festival
FEED! TALK & PLAY more on videotage
bioelectronix for artist
19-21 November, Bergen, Norway

Piksel09, f[re](e){op}[en]able
Piksel is a festival and community for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and [...]

Call for articles

hackteria is looking for authors who want to contribute theoretical articles, critical discourses or introductory text to the field of biological arts and sciences.

Here come the Teenage Gene Poets

We consider ourselves amateurs/novices within the context of the IGEM competition. Our endeavor as “outsiders” is to bring our training in the arts and design to synthetic biology. Over this summer, we learnt the tools and techniques of synthetic biology and developed a piece of life which reflects our concerns, namely, the cultural, ethical and [...]

vj-ing the improved pd_microscope
building microscopes in Ticino

We are currently doing a workshop in Vico Morcote, Ticono, during the yearly hacker’s camp, home-made labor research week, organised by the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society. While there is some massive soldering actions, noise-experiments and easy sunbathing and swimming, we have settled down with a small DIY microscopy workshop in the grapes pergola overlooking the [...]