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Hackteria workshop @ ISEA2010 RUHR

Overview
We are happy to hold a workshop during ISEA2010 in Dortmund. Andy and Marc will go into various aspects of the hackteria project, create an atmosphere of a bio-hacklab and introduce the participants and visitors into the world of living microorganisms, how to look at them with self-made microscope and how to combine the living [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

DIY microscopy @ Faculty of Agricultural Technology, UGM, Yogya

After showing the hackteria project to Prof. Irfan D. Prijambada during the cellsbutton#03 Yogyakarta international media art festival, he wanted to have a longer workshop with his group to introduce the DIY microscopy project.
The workshop will be held on Monday, 10th August 2009, in the Laboratory of Soil and Environmental Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Gadjah [...]

bioelectronix for artists @ CEMA

Date: 24 – 29 July 09
Location: CEMA, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore
Overview
The workshop is an experimental make-workshop with multilayered outcome for people interested in DIY-biology, microscopy, sound and simple technological interaction with living microorganisms. Participants will become involved in hacking webcams to be used for live-video microscopy, finding microorganisms from the [...]