Body upgrade 2.0
Our ongoing FWF funded project Futurebody was featured in the current issue of lookKIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's Magazine for Research, Teaching and Innovation! The project explores future interactions of humans and machines through the expanding...
The Art of Antibiotics now available as PDF!
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 Antibiotics" is...
Carbon Futures at the MSU Broad Art Lab
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 few months ago. A...
Synthetic Biology and Speculative Bodies
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 taken from...
Prototype Nature Book
It took some time, but finally Fraunhofer UMSICHT published the "Prototype Nature" book with achapter about the standardising biology cooking workshop by Günter Seyfried and Markus Schmidt. The book is available as a pdf for free or can be purchased as a hard copy....
BIO·FICTION in PERTH
Our Science Art Film Festival BIO·FICTION is on tour and our next tour stop is Perth! A selection of the neurotech festival films will be screened at the Perth Cultural Centre (Perth, Western Australia) on December 5, 2020 as part of the incredible XR:WA festival....
Carbon Futures and Plant Stories
We have some exciting news! We collaborated with Museon and produced two new installations for their “One Planet” exhibition. Photo credit: Museon Museon is a family friendly museum of science and culture based in The Hague (the Netherlands). Their permanent...
Online Roundtable: Synthetic Biology and Education
The EC H2020 funded Bioroboost project on standardisation in synthetic biology hosts an online Roundtable on Synthetic Biology and Education. One of the speakers will be Biofaction's Markus Schmidt, who will be talking about different tools for education, ranging from...
Battle for Cattle at the European Researchers’ Night!
Our game "Battle for Cattle" will be featured at the European Researchers' Night (ERN). The ERN takes place across Europe once a year and invites public to get a taste of everyday life of research institutions. This year the event will be held online on 27. November...
Artists in Residence have been selected!
This past spring, we opened a call for new Artist in Residence programs for MADONNA (2 residencies), NEWCOTIANA and SINFONIA. We received 166 submissions from 43 countries. The quality of the proposals was outstanding, and we were amazed by the exciting ideas of the...
Carbon Futures at Science Gallery Detroit
We are very happy to announce that our installation "Carbon Futures" is on display at the Science Gallery Detroit since September 2020. The exhibition "FUTURE PRESENT: Design in a Time of Urgency" deals amongst other things with the impact of technological and...
Xenobiology: A Journey towards Parallel Life Forms
Biofaction's Markus Schmidt, together with Nediljko Budisa and Vladimir Kubyshkin, had the opportunity to edit a special collection for ChemBioChem. The special issue is called “Xenobiology: A Journey towards Parallel Life Forms” and it deals, as the title suggests,...