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= Welcome to the Hackteria.org/Wiki =

About Hackteria
Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art, DIY Biology, Generic Laboratory Infrastructure

Hackteria is an international network active since 2009 in the field of Open Source Biological Art. As a community platform hackteria tries to encourage the collaboration of scientists, hackers and artists to combine their experitise, write critical and theoretical reflections, share simple instructions to work with lifescience technologies and cooperate on the organization of workshops, temporary labs, hack-sprints and meetings. Hackteria is a network of people practicing DIY (do-it-yourself) and DIWO (do-it-with-others) biology with an interest in art, design and interdisciplinary cooperation. Hackteria operates on a global scale, and is based on a web platform and a wiki for sharing knowledge, which enable anyone to learn but also test different ways of hacking living systems. Hackteria is not based in a physical space, and its goal is to allow artists, scientists and hackers to collaborate and test various biohacking and bioart techniques outside the official laboratories and art institutions, basically anywhere in the world.

See our front website also for more info, news and articles.

A lot has been written about hackteria, see our overview of press and media.

Global Hackteria Network


About the the Global Hackteria Network 

Some people are described on this wiki

How to get involved


Wiki, Forum.... just do it!

International Hackteria Society


About the International Hackteria Society  Under the name “International Hackteria Society”, is an association according to article 60ff of the Swiss Civil Code (ZGB) with seat in Zürich. The association aims to guarantee the organizational and financial processes of the project “Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art”. It wants to further development and access to practical knowledge in artistic engagement with the lifesciences. It wants to create platforms for public discussions and invite international artists and scientists for critical and theoretical discourse. The association works as a non- profit organization to reach its aims.

Current Board and Members of the Society

Using the wiki
Good question! We had to lock account creation due to spam bots.

Password recovery is fixed. So if you forgot... click send to mail adress (if you registered with it), or get in contact with some of the admins.

Join the Forum
Forum.... just do it!

Do your own hackteria-style workshops
Just do it! Bring loads of fun stuff to play with, good people and start experimenting, sharing, documenting, jammin!

= Formats =

Workshops Overview
View a map of Global Hackteria Workshops - Update 2016 in full screen.

Temporary Labs
Temporary Labs Overview

HackteriaLabs
HackteriaLab 2010 - Zurich HackteriaLab 2011 - Romainmotier HackteriaLab 2013 - Bangalore HackteriaLab 2014 - Yogyakarta HackteriaLab 2017 - Klöntal HackteriaLab 2019 - Taiwan

Core Methodologies
On the collaboration of scientists, hackers and artists in the organization of workshops, temporary labs, hack-sprints and meetings.

Workshopology, shared practice of giving workshop Lab Making - How to start a BioLab

= On Going NOW =

HLabX Kick-Off Trip - Taiwan-Jogja


During this trip we brought together our partners for HLabX from Okinawa and Taipei, aswell joining our friends from Lifepatch, Yogyakarta, and their collaborators from OCAC, during their stay in Taiwan. We then went on to Jogja for more intense meetings and getting to know each other, reflecting on earlier collaborative projects with Lifepatch, such as HackteriaLab 2014 - Yogyakarta and share interesting experiments on food, fermentation and more.

New Lab-Space in Zürich at Bitwäscherei
See more on the SGMK wiki.

Workshop Series
... stay tuned!

Left of Left - Food Experiments

MedTech-DIY @ HSLU, Luzern


Das Modul verbindet Anwendungen der Medizintechnik mit Do It Yourself (DIY) Ansätzen. Dadurch wird das tiefere Verständnis von Medizintechnischen Geräten durch einen direkten, interdisziplinären und möglichst selbstgesteuerten Zugang gefördert. Basierend auf verschiedenen elektrophysiologischen Messmodulen (EMG, EKG, EOG, EEG) entwickeln die Studierenden im Team Ideen für innovative Produkte. Erste Prototypen werden mit den Mitteln der Digitalen Fabrikation hergestellt und getestet. Feb 2020

HUMUS sapiens retreat 2019


This year we meet from 25.-27.10.2019 in the woods near Munich.

Please write to humus@mikrobiomik.org on which days you would like to be there (with or without accommodation), and whether you already have a topic / project idea in mind or would like to give a workshop. Soil creation and regeneration requires a tightly intertwined and interwoven network of organisms and matter, from microbes to animals and plants. The crosstalk between all of those compounds enables seeds to sprout on fertile soil. We believe that this diversity is always the key to creativity and innovation: HUMUS sapiens creates interdisciplinary crosstalk and collaboration from scientists, biohackers, artists and ecologists to farmers and gardeners, to share and build knowledge and tools for soil analysis and regeneration

Abao in GaudiLabs micro-Residency


Documentation coming soon...

Wormolution - Hackteria Temporary Autonomous Laboratory @ 1000 Ecologies, Geneva
12. - 15. September, Le Commun, Geneva, Switzerland

Hackteria coordinates a Temporary Autonomous Laboratory during the early phase of “1000 Ecologies” inviting international researchers, artists and entrepreneurs as participants. The lab as a temporary construction should allow researchers from the fields of biology and engineering to collaborate with artists and so create links between the "two cultures", the human sciences and the arts. On the topic of “Wormolution” participants will explore the territory between plastic as the abundant material of our society and the natural metabolisms and processes in nature. By combining their expertise, share simple instructions and engaging in critical and theoretical reflections artists and scientists will create new ways to combine multiple ecologies, maybe in a circular, maybe in a whole new way of freedom and awareness.

UGM Organizing Society Hackteria Lecture
13:00 - 15:00 Augustus 21. 2019 in Collaboration with Zita

Biohacking101


Welcome to the Odin Biohacking 101 Class in gene-editing discussion and hands-on session from 9.1.-24.4.2019 Swiss Edition.

Four months of remote cooking, learning, sewing for future gatherings. Various locations in and around Zurich and other spaces across Switzerland.

Super-natural imaging
TeZ & Gaudi: Preview of their upcoming research activities. “For this year I want to do more of the beautiful things again. So for me this is in the direction of bio-feedback systems, aura imaging, experiments with water and photons, DNA... I have got some ideas there.” - Urs Gaudenz, 2019



Kirlian photography and a collection of other super-natural imaging techniques have been the subject of mainstream scientific research, parapsychology research and art. Let's see.

BioPunk: Feed, Food, Fermentation


We have several invited guests coming through Zurich and are hosting a day of experimentation and discussions in Shedhalle. Hackteria has always been focusing strongly 2 things: the development of new workshop concepts and establishing a global collaborative network. With this in mind we have planned a series of research visits by interesting practitioners working in the field of bioart, new media, food & fermentation culture. The goal of these visits is to establish a collaborative interaction phase with local artists from Switzerland (mostly in Zurich) and invite a public audience for interesting interactions.

Make you own CRISPR-Baby


Join us for a deeper engagement on various methods of germline interventions. The germline is the river of heredity (i.e. sperm, ova, zygote) that you as a human are a part of. A gene from a non-human would need to be inserted into the river of humanity to make that person and their descendants interspecies transgenic. We will introduce DIY tools & toys for playful speculations on who, how and where we can envision our future offspring human /non-human watermelon inheritable post-species palettes. Through a collaborative and performative workshop, Marc Dusseiller aka dusjagr, Megan Daalder and Adam Zaretsky, will guide the group throughout the evening.

Schedule: 6 – 9 pm, Friday 22nd Feb 2019

https://www.hackteria.org/workshops/make-your-own-crispr-babies/

HUMUS.Sapiens on TOUR


= Collection of DIY Biology, Open Source Art Projects=

See new Project page Collection of DIY Biology, Open Source Art Projects and here you find the Old Main Page for now... until we made a new structure here in the front.

But because this one is such a claaassiiic! We leave it here for reflection...

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Quorum sensing is a type of decision-making process used by decentralized groups to coordinate behavior. Many species of bacteria use quorum sensing to coordinate their gene expression according to the local density of their population.The Bacterial Net attempts to transfer this decision making process over the Internet. Using Microcontollers and sensors to detect bacterial population and a public web service http://www.pachube.com that helps transfer sensor information. The Bacterial Net is an exploration in bringing the Internet into the Natural Ecosystem.
 * Project 1: The Bacterial Net- Microbial Telecommunications.
 * Project 1: The Bacterial Net- Microbial Telecommunications.