Wetware: Art | Agency Animation
We are happy to see our former Artist in Residence Orkan Telhan's work in the Wetware: Art | Agency Animation catalogue, documenting the exhibition which took place last year at the Beall Center for Art + Technology, California. The exhibition catalogue features his...
Vienna Design Week Review 2016
We have recently received a copy of the annual VIENNA DESIGN WEEK REVIEW and are happy to share with you a glimpse inside the book, featuring a summary of Biofaction's mini exhibition 'Possible Tomorrows' during last year's Vienna Design Week:
Artists in Residence revealed!
Our Call for an Artist in Residence raised a lot of interest within the art-science community worldwide. Our jury panel had the difficult task of selecting from 80 applications from 29 countries. A jury panel, composed of members of the BIOPROCESS LABORATORY,...
New documentary film: The Berrymakers
We released a new documentary film about the international research and innovation project BACHBERRY that searched for valuable substances in plants, particularly berries, that could be beneficial for health and other useful applications. We travelled to the...
Call for Artist in Residence
at BIOPROCESS LABORATORY, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland in collaboration with BIOFACTION, Vienna CALL FOR ARTIST IN RESIDENCE The Bioprocess Laboratory (BPL), ETH Zürich in Basel, Switzerland – in collaboration with Biofaction, Vienna, Austria – is inviting...
Article about “Possible Tomorrows” in Die Presse
View below the print version of Possible Tomorrow's press coverage in Die Presse or click HERE to view the PDF.
“Possible Tomorrows” Exhibition at Vienna Design Week
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...
Interview with VICE Netherlands
VICE Magazine did an interview with Biofaction's CEO Markus Schmidt on the BIO·FICTION Science Art and Film Festival (in Dutch). Click image below to be forwarded to the online interview.
Science café: Synthetic biology animal vaccine engineering and its societal implications
After the first Science Cafè in Barcelona, the second MycoSynVac Science Cafè took place June 25, 2016 in Amsterdam at the Nemo Science Museum. It was held as part of the two-day long Synergene Forum 2016, a large public event which discussed synthetic biology as well...
Science Café Amsterdam June 25th
Join us tomorrow at the MycoSynVac Science café on "Synthetic biology vaccine engineering and its societal implications" during the Synenergene Forum 2016 Saturday June 25th. The event will be held at the NEMO Science Centre in Amsterdam (Theater, floor 2), from...
Public participation in serious life science games?
In a recently published article titled “Homo Politicus meets Homo Ludens: Public participation in serious life science games” published in the journal “Public Understanding of Science”, the authors attempt to find out whether, and to what extent, public participation...
BIO·FICTION on Tour in Instanbul
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...