Aug 31, 2016 | announcement, art-science, event, Events, News, Synthetic Biology
POSSIBLE TOMORROWS an exhibition curated and produced by Biofaction during Vienna Design Week Possible Tomorrows introduces a selection of experimental and technical design applications hatched from the fields of biotechnology and synthetic biology. Selected...
Jun 9, 2016 | announcement, art-science, event, Events, Science in Society
The next BIO·FICTION on Tour event takes place in Instanbul, Turkey on the 18th of June 2016 at the Orient-Institute Instanbul. Here some information about the event location: The Orient-Institut Istanbul is an independent Turcological and area studies research...
Sep 8, 2015 | art-science, Events, Publications, Science Policy
In the latest issues of Hacktivism Journal “Neural”, Eugenio Battaglia reports about the Vienna BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival, commenting on cultural amnesia, avoidance of self-referential artworks and the notion that we have always been...
Jul 8, 2015 | art-science, Events, Science Communication, Science in Society
Biofaction is very excited to host the “Metafood, Metacode, Metalife” workshop together with the iGEM Paris Bettencourt Team at the Centre Recherches Interdisciplinaires in Paris for their NightScience Event. The topic of this year’s...
Jul 7, 2015 | art-science, Events, Science in Society
Introduction The interdisciplinary artist Orkan Telhan who is also an assistant professor of Fine Arts at University of Pennsylvania, has been chosen as the artist in residency for a six week programme at the Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLinT),...
Jun 25, 2015 | art-science, Uncategorized
Recommended read on Der Tagesspiegel (in German): Der belgische Künstler Tuur Van Balen hat in einer Installation durchgespielt, wie sich Tauben mithilfe von synthetisch umprogrammierten Bakterien im Futter zu Produzenten von biologisch abbaubarer Seife umwandeln...