Traces of Fluorine and Dryland Projections

Dec 22, 2021 | announcement, art-science, Creative, News, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology

We are excited to be exhibiting once again at Museon, a museum of science and culture based in The Hague (the Netherlands)! Within their permanent “One Planet” exhibition we had the opportunity to create two new installations, each of them connected to one...

Grüner Wasserstoff aus Sonnenlicht und Wasser? Neue Materialien für die künstliche Photosynthese

Jun 1, 2021 | Film & Video, Media, News, science, Science Communication, Synthetic Biology

Nach dem Vorbild der Natur erforscht der Sonderforschungsbereich CataLight, wie man die Energie aus dem Sonnenlicht speichern und z.B. für die Erzeugung von solaren Treibstoffen nutzen kann. Ziel der Forscherinnen und Forscher ist es, eine künstliche Membran...

Music from DNA: Creating a SinFonia inside a bacterial cell

Jun 1, 2021 | art-science, Creative, News, Synthetic Biology

PRESS RELEASE If you could listen to the DNA in your genes, how would it sound like? This question stood at the beginning of the groundbreaking collaboration between a musical composer and a microbiologist, and the answer to that question is now online and available...

The Art of Antibiotics now available as PDF!

Feb 19, 2021 | announcement, art-science, Creative, News, Publications, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology

The art-science booklet “The Art of Antibiotics” about our last residency program is now available in its entirety as a free PDF download. Have a look at the blurb below and, if you want to read more, you can access the full booklet here. “The Art of...

Carbon Futures at the MSU Broad Art Lab

Feb 12, 2021 | announcement, art-science, Creative, News, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology

Our installation “Carbon Futures” is now on show at the MSU Broad Art Lab. The installation was initially part of the exhibition “FUTURE PRESENT: Design in a Time of Urgency”, which was created by Science Gallery Detroit and closed a...

Synthetic Biology and Speculative Bodies

Dec 16, 2020 | Film & Video, News, Publications, science, Science in Film, Science in Society, Stories, Synthetic Biology

As part of our last BIO·FICTION on Tour round, we joined a thought-provoking conference organised by the Orient-Institut Istanbul, which gathered interdisciplinary and international perspectives on the topic “Upgrades of Nature, Future Bodies”. Organ being...