SOLU / Bioart Society

SOLU Dialogues: Landscape Machines

10 Oct 2024

SOLU Space

During the fifth iteration of SOLU Dialogues, artist-curator and doctoral researcher Erich Berger invites participants for a dialogue about his ongoing engagement with deep time, deep futures and the nuclear contemporary through his art and research practice.

Songs from the Wreck / Själö Poeisis

4 Oct 2024

SOLU Space

Lotta Petronella will perform new pieces of writings and rituals Songs from the Wreck embodying hundreds of years of institutional violence and hauntings on the island of Seili.

Autumnal breakfasts at SOLU Space

2 Oct — 11 Dec 2024

SOLU Space

Bioart Society welcomes members, peers, partners and publics to join our monthly breakfasts at our SOLU Space in Kalasatama. Free of charge and no pre-registration needed!

#RewildingCultures

Reading Matters: Feral Labs reading & book launch

28 Aug 2024

SOLU Space

This event is a combination of the launch of the Feral Labs Node Book #2: Feralities and Reading Matters reading circle.

As part of the Night of the Arts program, Bioart Society hosts Kaajal Modi's workshops M/others M*lk.

M/others M*lk

15 Aug 2024

SOLU Space

#deCYPher

deCYPher lab: on the ethics and aesthetics of linking AI/ML & SynBio

6 Jun 2024

Aalto Design Factory

This symposium brings together artists, scientist and other practitioners to stimulate deeper reflection on the convergence of artificial intelligence, machine learning techniques and synthetic biology.

SOLU Dialogues: Thinking with Onkalo

29 May 2024

SOLU Space

The fourth iteration of SOLU Dialogues, event researchers in nuclear culture – Ele Carpenter, Erich Berger, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, Alex Ressel and Susan Schuppli – will share their different research practices, and reflect on how their recent field trip to Onkalo informs these discourses and practices.

Ways of seeing: life – glass – chem workshop

9 — 19 Apr 2024

Biofilia

Open call for Ways of seeing: life – glass – chem workshop with Laura Beloff at Biofilia from 9–19 April 2024. Deadline for applications 18th February.

Allotment Garden Event Series: Crocodile Seeds by The Migrant Ecologies Project

16 Mar 2024

Museum of Finnish Architecture

Lucy Davis presents her project Crocodile Seeds as part of the Garden Futures exhibition at the Museum of Finnish Architecture.

SOLU Dialogues: You contain more-than-culture

14 Mar 2024

SOLU Space

The third iteration of SOLU Dialogues by Kaajal Modi is inspired by Finnish and Global South fermentation practices, sauna culture, seed and Oodi libraries and recent attempts to codify and monitor the human microbiome.

Open call for MicroMatters workshop with Katri Naukkarinen at SOLU Space from 29th February until 1st March 2024. Deadline for applications 21st January.

MicroMatters workshop

29 Feb — 1 Mar 2024

SOLU Space

Reading matters is a regular reading circle that activates the SOLU library and brings people together to discuss matters connected to our projects and wider programme.

Reading matters

28 Feb 2024

SOLU Space

We welcome peers, partners and publics to a series of free monthly breakfasts at SOLU Space in Kalasatama.

Breakfast at SOLU Space

23 Jan — 19 Jun 2024

SOLU Space

SOLU Dialogues: A Nose is a Nose?

15 Dec 2023

SOLU Space

In the second iteration of SOLU Dialogues event series, Aaro Murphy hosts A Nose is a Nose, an open dialogue between peers and colleagues around the subject of the nose, atmospheric analysis and the invisible.

Aaro Murphy's installation Fickle (Gritty) Memory at SOLU Space in Kalasatama from 7th December until 31st January.

Fickle (Gritty) Memory

7 Dec 2023 — 31 Jan 2024

SOLU Space

SOLU Dialogues: Koelleven

23 Nov 2023

SOLU Space

In this first iteration of the SOLU Dialogues event series, Bartaku presents Koelleven project, instigated by the unique microbiota within cooling towers of nuclear power stations

#SOLU / #BioFacts / #RestorativePractices

3D EXPLORATION workshop

2 — 3 Nov 2023

SOLU Space

Open call for 3D exploration workshop with José Cano at SOLU Space on 2–3 November 2023. Deadline for applications 8th October.

Film screening & fundraiser

26 Oct 2023

SOLU Space

Kairos Helsinki, Feminist Culture House and Bioart Society are organizing a film screening and fundraiser in solidarity with Palestine at SOLU Space.

#ArsBioarctica / #TheNorthEscaping

The Fells – A Soundwalk through Timescapes of the Kilpisjärvi area

19 Oct 2023

SOLU Space

Jacek Smolicki spent two weeks at The North Escaping residency, conducting a series of soundwalks, listening sessions, interviews and field recordings. He is guiding two soundwalks in Helsinki, which originate from these locally conducted experiments.

Do Trees Dream of CO₂ at SOLU Space

13 Oct 2023

SOLU Space

Do Trees Dream of CO₂ collective has been developing technology and artistic expressions to facilitate interspecies dialogues between humans and trees for two years. They will present their work at SOLU Space.

Brewing tea and conversations – Night of the Arts at SOLU Space

17 — 19 Aug 2023

SOLU Space

Come and make tea with us! Paulina Gretkierewicz and Aga Pokrywka host the Night of the Arts at the new SOLU Space.

State of the Art – Elements for Critical Thinking and Doing

21 Jun 2023

SOLU Space

State of the Art – Elements for Critical Thinking and Doing publication wraps up a multi-year collaboration project under the same name. The publication takes a closer look at how we as practising artists, researchers and cultural actors can create elements for critical thinking and doing which can assist us in navigating the complexities of the present

#ArsBioarctica / #SOLU

The Critical Gardening Collective at SOLU Space

5 Jun 2023

SOLU Space

The Critical Gardening Collective will present their project, which aims to create a moss garden at the Montréal Botanical Garden in 2025. The collective will travel to Kilpisjärvi Biological Station for two weeks in June to identify, observe and gather specimens of so-called 'bipolar mosses'

#ArsBioarctica / #SOLU / #TheNorthEscaping

North Escaping residency presentation & discussion

24 May 2023

SOLU Space

aRzu and Maria Lepistö have had their North Escaping residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station from 24th April to 22nd May. Their presenting their work and residency results at the new SOLU Space.

WORKSHOP – MAKING FISH LEATHER

7 — 9 Mar 2023

Kuusiluoto

A fish leather workshop hosted by Hanna Kaisa Vainio and Christina Stadlbauer, taking place in March at Kuusiluoto, Helsinki.

Down to Earth: The Mapping Session

31 Oct — 1 Nov 2022

Aalto Design Factory

Down to Earth: The Mapping Session is a two-day hands-on workshop which reflects on how soil chromatography can open up multiple aspects of soil to us and brings in attempts of mapping to extract and highlight relations between sample, site and collector.

#ART4MED

More Than Living

27 Sep — 22 Oct 2022

Galerie - Cité internationale des arts

The exhibition highlights the work done in the framework of ART4MED and will run from September 27th until October 22nd, 2022, at Galerie - Cité internationale des arts, Paris.

It has come time to say goodbye to our beloved SOLU Space as we head out for new adventures. Welcome to one last party at Katajanokka!

SOLU CLOSING PARTY

9 Sep 2022

SOLU Space

#SOLU / #ART4MED

MNEMONIA

18 Aug — 8 Sep 2022

SOLU Space

MNEMONIA, a collaboration installation by Emilia Tikka, Oula A Valkeapää and Leena Valkeapää, will have it's opening at SOLU Space on the Night of the Arts, 18th of August 2022.

#SOLU / #m/otherbecomings

m/other becomings exhibition II

9 — 30 Jun 2022

SOLU Space

Exhibition opening on 9 June 2022 at 18:00.

The second instalment of m/other becomings exhibition includes works from Marta de Menezes, Pekko Vasantola, and Margherita Pevere.

#m/otherbecomings / #ART4MED

m/other becomings symposium

9 — 10 Jun 2022

Aalto Design Factory

m/other becomings symposium will be held in Aalto Design Factory in 9.-10.6.2022.

Emergence, Microbes, Governing Bodies mini festival

1 — 5 Jun 2022

SOLU Space

The mini festival Emergence, Microbes, Governing Bodies will take place at SOLU Space 1–5 June 2022.

#SOLU / #m/otherbecomings

m/other becomings exhibition I

5 — 28 May 2022

SOLU Space

Exhibition opening on 5 May 2022 at 17:00.

The first instalment of m/other becomings exhibition includes works from Riina Hannula, Lyndsey Walsh, and Rian Ciela Hammond.

#SOLU / #Arc-hive

The Permian Collection - book launch

27 Apr 2022

SOLU Space

SOLU Space will host the book launch event for The Permian Collection by Axel Straschnoy.

Down to Earth II is a two-day hands-on workshop where participants will go through the process of how to make a chromatography and prepare some with their own soil samples.

Down to Earth II

21 — 22 Apr 2022

SOLU Space

Imagining the Baltic Sea - online seminar

7 — 8 Apr 2022

online

An online seminar focused on the Baltic Sea hosted by artist duo Andy Best and Merja Puustinen as part of the State of the Art Network.

The Língua Plantae sessions

27 Mar 2022

SOLU Space

Ines Montalvao and Annina Antinranta are inviting everyone with a curious mind about plants and the way they communicate with each other, with humans and the surrounding environment, to gather at SOLU Space for a matinée of sound experimentation.

#m/otherbecomings / #Arc-hive

m/other becomings - workshop

7 — 11 Mar 2022

BioGarage at Aalto Design Factory

What happens when the technologies and politics of the maternal are unleashed from the affective and economic structures of heteronormative reproduction, from natality, and even from species’ genealogies.

Criss-Crossing Ecologies in Seinäjoki

3 Feb — 1 Jun 2022

Seinäjoki

Exhibition in Seinäjoki, previously displayed in 2020 in the Annantalo Art Centre in Helsinki, created in collaboration with Bioart Society.

Our friends from TUO TUO are welcoming you to the Screening dreaming of laho paratiisi: return of (the) earth, rhizomes laaaaaaugh, spiralling at SOLU Space.

TUO TUO screening

9 Dec 2021

SOLU Space

Down to Earth is a two-day hands-on workshop where participants will go through the process of how to make a chromatography and prepare some with their own soil samples.

Down to Earth

2 — 3 Dec 2021

SOLU Space

#m/otherbecomings

m/other becomings: lecture series

12 Nov — 3 Dec 2021

online

A series of public online talks will explore in depth some of the themes and curatorial aspects of m/other becomings with Patrizia Costantin and artists Ida Bencke, Lyndsey Walsh, Riina Hannula and Signe Johannessen.

Listening to Atmospheric Encounters - An evening on high altitudes

2 Nov 2021

SOLU Space

An evening of soundscapes and discussions surrounding the theme of Atmospheric Encounters.

Microbial prospecting workshop with Melissa Grant

8 Oct 2021

SOLU Space

Making invisible microbes visible and trying to identify them has been a pastime of the curious for many centuries.

High Altitude Bioprospecting (HAB): Atmospheric Encounters

7 Oct — 20 Nov 2021

SOLU Space

A long-term project involving scientists and artists in a quest to explore the stratosphere and capture microorganisms that may live there.

Seaside Arts and Low-Trophic Imaginaries

30 Sep — 1 Oct 2021

Sweden

The Posthumanities Hub and the Eco- and Bioart Lab host the State of the Art Network's mid-term event 'Seaside Arts and Low-Trophic Imaginaries' in the Swedish Archipelago and online.

Quimera Rosa - Trans*Plant: May the Chlorophyll be with/in you

2 — 25 Sep 2021

SOLU Space

Trans*Plant is a transdisciplinary project that utilizes living systems and is based on self-experimentation: it is a process that involves a human to plant transition in various formats.

In Dialogue: Ariane Koek & Erich Berger

26 Aug 2021

SOLU Space

A dialogue about Koek’s pioneering work and the many ways in which art, science and society can come together within artistic and curatorial practices.

BioFutures - Process Prototype Showcase

12 — 18 Jun 2021

SOLU Space

Imaginative prototypes from the five-day BioFutures workshop and ongoing work.

BioFutures - A physical narrative workshop

7 — 11 Jun 2021

Helsinki

The BioFutures workshop will take place from June 7-11 (10-17h) in Helsinki, either at SOLU Space or at the Aalto Design Factory. It is hosted locally by artists Christina Stadlbauer and Noora Sandgren and led remotely by Tina Auer and Tim Boykett of Time’s Up. Apply by May 14!

Contemplations and ideas from a collaboration between artists Laura Beloff and Kira O’Reilly on ticks and tick-borne pathogens and their environments.

TICK ACTs

2 — 3 Jun 2021

SOLU Space

Full Moon Presence workshop with the Independent AIR

17 May — 30 Jun 2021

Online

The workshop is an invitation to open ourselves towards understanding our entanglement with nature and to listen to the voice of the landscape and the more-than-human world.

#SOLUspa with Ernest Truely

17 — 30 May 2021

SOLU Space

Welcome to #SOLUspa to experience the transformational power of art and hairdressing!

Talking BIO·FICTION is a discussion format that gives space to reflect together on the content and context of a selection of short films watched together.

Talking BIO·FICTION

14 — 28 Apr 2021

Online

BIO·FICTION Shorts is a touring collection and discussion of short films exploring the theme of Futurebody.

BIO·FICTION Shorts

9 — 29 Apr 2021

SOLU Space / online

A panel discussion about neurotechnology and its current and potential impact on society.

BIO·FICTION Panel

8 Apr 2021

Online

Soil workshop with NOBA - Norwegian Bioart Arena

24 — 26 Mar 2021

Online

A workshop exploring living matter and diving deep into the knowledge of soil

Maija Annikki Savolainen: /d a t a c e n t r e

13 Jan — 20 Feb 2021

SOLU Space

An exhibition shifting through time. Mirroring the format of a residency, the exhibition performs as a site for ongoing research, material experimentation and knowledge transmission.

A series of conversations by artists Laura Beloff & Kira O'Reilly with experts from the biosciences and the humanities concerning ticks, the pathogens they carry and the implications for humans and non-humans within changing environments.

TICK TALKs

1 Jan — 1 Dec 2021

Online

/d a t a c e n t r e Reading Circles

3 Dec 2020 — 21 Jan 2021

Online

Join artist Maija Annikki Savolainen for a sequence of reading circles in connection to her exhibition /d a t a c e n t r e! The reading circles are held as online events over zoom.

Photosonic Landscapes panel

12 Nov 2020

Online

A panel discussion featuring artists Minna Långström, Leah Beeferman, and Mika Taanila, solar astronomer Sara Martin, and Tytti Rantanen (moderator).

Minna Långström & Leah Beeferman: Photosonic Landscapes in Color

16 Oct — 21 Nov 2020

SOLU Space

New experimental works that explore images as scientific tools, or as other forms of information, and as physical entities consisting of pixels or pigment grains correlating to a physical object sensitive to light.

Yeastogram workshop with Johanna Rotko

24 — 27 Aug 2020

SOLU Space

During this three-evening workshop, participants learn how to make yeastograms - living images made with yeast, growth media, UV light and rasterized images.

Criss-Crossing Ecologies

20 Aug 2020 — 31 Jan 2021

Annantalo, Helsinki

Art&science exhibition created in collaboration with Annantalo Arts Centre.

Johanna Rotko: Living Images

13 Aug — 13 Sep 2020

SOLU Space

Visual artist Johanna Rotko works with living materials, mainly different yeasts. The exhibition features yeastograms - images made with living yeast cells - photographs of Rotko's research, and a video piece introducing her working methods.

Braiding Friction - a series of online conversations

2 Jun — 31 Jul 2020

online

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and postponed activities, our collaboration project Biofriction is setting up a a series of online conversations to instigate an informed discussion on current situation and possible scenarios.

Fragile Life and Celestial Matter(s)

25 — 28 May 2020

Live stream at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCISuPObcTBtedqlWDWTosTQ

With Field_Notes - The Heavens the Bioart Society started to explore the interface between space and earth. Fragile Life and Celestial Matter(s) continues this inquiry with two online panel events bringing together a group of artists and researchers who work on space related issues for many years.

Talking About "Living Things"

11 Mar 2020

SOLU Space

How to represent life-material and bodies of living beings and at the same time avoiding the pitfalls of objectification? Join us for an open conversation with Bartaku (artist, FI/BE), Björn Kröger (paleontologist, FI/DE), Marietta Radomska (philosopherFI/SE/PL) and Mari Keski-Korsu (artist, FI)!

Book launch - Art As We Don't Know It

5 Mar — 5 Feb 2020

SOLU

Welcome to celebrate the launch of Art as We Don’t Know It, a new book showcasing art and research that has grown and flourished within the wider network of both the Bioart Society and Biofilia during the previous decade.

#BioFacts

MaterialeX workshop

26 — 27 Feb 2020

SOLU

What happens when matter really matters? MaterialeX is a two-day deep-dive workshop about exploring how to make materials from local waste streams. The workshop is hosted by Chan'nel Vestergaard.

Field recording workshop with Alan Courtis

16 Feb 2020

SOLU Space

A three-hour workshop open to musicians, non-musicians, artists, professionals, students and anybody interested in field recording.

In Dialogue: Emilia Tikka & Mianna Meskus

15 Jan 2020

SOLU Space

Welcome to join us for a dialogue that brings together artist, designer and researcher Emilia Tikka and Mianna Meskus, sociologist of science and technology.

Crossroads – Book Launch & Seminar

12 Dec 2019

SOLU Space

Crossroads – New Views on Art and Environment offers a kaleidoscopic view of artistic practices that respond to the complex, at times contradictory entity that we choose to call “environment”. The book is co-published by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and The Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki, and edited by Ilari Laamanen. The publication will be launched in a seminar hosted by Bioart Society at the SOLU Space in Katajanokka on 12th of December, 2019.

11 Dec 2019 — 31 Jan 2020

Time and River are alike

SOLU Space

Since 2009, the Bioart Society has been running art&science residency Ars Bioarctica at the Kilpisjärvi Biological station located in the Finnish subarctic/Sápmi. So far 204 artists, scientists and transdisciplinary working groups have attended the residency. The Time and River are alike exhibition offers a glimpse into this residency, mediated through video, audio and photo works by five artists.

Christina Stadlbauer: Narratives of Imperfection – Finissage

30 Nov 2019

SOLU Space

Join us for the finissage of Christina Stadlbauer's exhibition Narratives of Imperfection on Saturday, November 30! Tervetuloa viettämään kanssamme Narratives of Imperfection -näyttelyn päätöstilaisuutta lauantaina 30.11.!

Christina Stadlbauer: Narratives of Imperfection

8 — 30 Nov 2019

SOLU Space

The exhibition includes rituals, explorations with microbiological life forms and observations in the wake of an earthquake.

Artist Talk: Pekka Niskanen & Mohamed Sleiman Labat

8 Oct 2019

SOLU Space

A talk by artists behind PhosFATE, an artistic research project taking place in two different geographical locations.

In Dialogue: Martin Howse & Erich Berger

12 Apr 2019

SOLU Space

Martin Howse and Erich Berger will discuss and explore Howse’s work comprised of text, installations, interventions, sound performances and field work which entangle the geologic, psychic, hardware and software on the lookout for where exactly the place of execution of code is locate

Merry CRISPR II workshop

10 — 14 Dec 2018

Biofilia

Workshop participants will investigate and work with CRISPR, look into its materiality and artistic possibilities, and discuss and explore socio-cultural, political and ethical implications within their transdisciplinary group.

Merry CRISPR workshop

11 — 15 Dec 2017

Bioflia Aalto Univeristy

The workshop participants will investigate and work with CRISPR, look into its materiality and artistic possibilities, and discuss and explore socio-cultural, political and ethical implications within their transdisciplinary group.

Growing Cellulose workshop with Margherita Pevere

11 — 18 Nov 2017

Pixelache Office, Helsinki

The workshop focuses on the aesthetic potential of microbial cellulose (MB) and the philosophical implications of working with leaking, growing, hybrid bodies in artistic practice.

Sonic Wildcode performance by AGF

17 Aug 2017

Oulu Museum of Art

Live sound performance during the Night of the Arts at the Oulu Museum of Art on the 17th of August 2017 Antye Greie [AGF, poemproducer] (DE/FI) is a musician, vocalist, digital songwriter,...

20th May 2017 10-15h Oulu Museum of Art Kasarmintie 9, 90100 Oulu, Finland Seminaari on englanninkielinen. The seminar will be held in English. The seminar is open and free for everybody who wants...

SPLICE Seminar

20 May 2017

Oulu Museum of Art

The SPLICE re_examining Nature international exhibition produced by Finnish Bioart Society and the Oulu Art Museum focuses its gaze on our relationship with nature, including diverse approaches...

SPLICE

20 May — 12 Nov 2017

Oulu Museum of Art

Be-Wildermend (Nature Drag) performance by Kira O’Reilly

19 May 2017

Oulu Museum of Art

During the openig of the SPLICE exhibition, Helsinki based artist Kira O'Reilly will perform Be-Wilderment (Nature Drag). The opening is on Friday 19 May at 5–7 p.m. at the Oulu Museum of Art. The...

The workshop is part of the Hybrid_Matters Symposium, and took place at Forumbox Helsinki and was held by Asa Stahl and Kristina Lindstrom. How do we want to live with plastics? New research have...

PLASTIC IMAGINARIES

26 Nov 2016

Helsinki, Finland

HYBRID MATTERs exhibition Forumbox

24 Nov — 18 Dec 2016

Helsinki, Finland

The exhibition took place at Forum Box with: participating artists: Hanna Husberg FI/SW, Lawrence Malstaf BE/NO, Laura Belof FI/DK, Jonas Jorgenson DK, Kristina Lindstrom SE, Asa Stahl SE,...

HYBRID MATTERs investigates hybrid ecologies, the convergence of our environment with technology and essentially the intentional and unintentional transformation of our planet through human...

HYBRID MATTERs Symposium

24 — 25 Nov 2016

Theatre Academy, Helsinki, Finland

HYBRID MATTERs exhibition Nikolaj Kunsthal

19 May — 31 Jul 2016

Denmark

The exhibition investigates current hybrids of biology, technology and art. The exhibition looks at today's brave new world in which genetically modifed plants and animals, artifcial organisms and...

HYBRID_MATTERs exhibition Kunsthal Grenland

19 Mar — 8 May 2016

Porsgrun, Norway

The detritus from human activity has reached such proportions, both in extent and amount, that there is scarcely a single place Earth that is pure and untouched by human alluvia. Describing some...

Field_Notes – HYBRID MATTERs

14 — 20 Sep 2015

Kilpisjärvi, Biologocal Station of the University of Helsinki

Field_Notes – HYBRID MATTERs is an art&science field laboratory organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart at the Kilpisjarvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland.
Five groups, hosted by...

In the seminar, Making_Life participants gave an introduction to synthetic biology and why and how they are interested in engaging with it. Discussed have been key technologies, promises, the hype...

Making_Life – Seminar

23 May 2015

Urban Workshop, Lasipalatsi, Helsinki

Making-Life III – exhibition

22 — 31 May 2015

Lasipalatsi Näyttely, Helsinki

An exhibtion with artistic responses to synthetic biology The exhibtion Making_Life was the presentation of the artistic prototyping workshop Making_Life III.
Four diferent groups composed from the...

Making-Life III – a research platform for art and synthetic biology

17 — 22 May 2015

Bioflia, base for biological arts, Aalto University, Helsinki

Making_Life I (May 2014) introduced the molecular biological foundations of synthetic biology. Making_Life II (November 2014) looked into proto- life, xeno and exobiology. Making_Life III was an...

Martin Hanczyc, Public Lecture

27 Nov 2014

The House of Science and Letters, Helsinki, Finland

The lecture was part of Making_Life, a project by the Finnish Society of Bioart in collaboration with Biofilia – Base for Biological Arts – Aalto University Finland and Bio:Fiction Vienna Austria...

The Commons consist of any common resource that is available to all, narrowing basically to two: physical resources or man-made. A plenitude of licensing modes has been developed in the past and...

Bio-Commons Workshop

7 — 8 Jun 2014

Vartiosaari, Helsinki, Finland

Bio-Commons, keynote by Markus Schmidt

6 Jun 2014

Helsinki University, Finland

Dr. Markus Schmidt, founder and team leader of Biofaction in Vienna Austria, gave a keynote lecture on the Bio-Commons as a kick-off for the Pixelache Bio-Commons workshop. He opened the theme of...

Curie’s Children [glow boys radons daughter]

2 — 5 Jun 2014

Kaupunkiverstas, Helsinki, Finland

The Curie’s Children [glow boys, radon daughters] workshop allowed the uninitiated to easily enter into a physical and intuitive relation to nuclear and atomic processes, following simple hands-on...

Artist Presentation Paul Vanouse

21 May 2014

House of Science and Letters Helsinki, Finland

Vanouse, Professor of Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo, NY, presented works from over two decades of experience working with emerging media forms, which have been exhibited in over 20...

Yeastogram workshop

13 — 15 Dec 2013

Helsinki, Finland

The yeast printing workshop introduced 12 participants to a novel experimental imaging process for creating animations. Living yeast cultures were prepared and exposed to produce images. The...

Natural Cryptography for Postcards

6 Dec 2013

Helsinki, Finland

Led by Markus Decker and Peter Wagenhofer Produced in collaboration with Pixelache In his Ars Bioarctica residency Markus Decker investigated natural random phenomena like natural radioactivity or...

Deep Time – Deep Futures Symposium

24 October, 2013

Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland

Deep Time / Deep Futures was a symposium on artistic responses to the dichotomy between human time-perception and time in biological, environmental, and geological processes, within which we are...

“Field_Notes – From Landscape to Laboratory – Maisemasta Laboratorioon” Edited by Laura Beloff, Erich Berger and Terike Haapoja This publication is the result of “Field_Notes – Cultivating Grounds”...

Field_Notes Publication

23 Oct 2013

Publication

#Field_Notes-DeepTime

Field Notes – Deep Time

16 — 22 Sep 2013

Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Kilpisjärvi, Finland

Hosted by Oron Catts, Antero Kare, Leena Valkeapaa, Tere Vaden, Elisabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse “Field_Notes – Deep Time” was a week-long art&science field laboratory organized by the...

#Field_Notes-DeepTime

Field_Notes residencies

1 — 15 Sep 2013

Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Kilpisjärvi, Finland

The Field_Notes residencies have been research and preparation residencies prior to the “Field_Notes Deep Time” field laboratory. Oron Catts, Antero Kare, Tere Vaden, Leena Valkeapää and Erich...

Case Pyhäjoki – Artistic reflections on nuclear influence

1 — 11 Aug 2013

Pyhäjoki, Finland

This trans-disciplinary expedition and production workshop took place in Pyhäjoki, Northern Finland, where the sixth nuclear power plant (NPP) in the country was planned to be built. Participants...

Prima Materia

22 Nov — 13 Dec 2012

Helsinki, Finland

PRIMA MATERIA – 4 artistic positions on ecology Exhibition at Helsinki University Think Corner Participating artists: Laura Beloff (FI), Ursula Damm (DE), Mari Keski-Korsu (FI) and Tuula Närhinen...

This activity, enabled through a grant by the Canadian Arts Council, had six researchers from the art collective Arctic Perspective visiting Kilpisjärvi Biological Station for a research residency,...

Arctic Perspective

17 Nov — 3 Dec 2012

Kilpisjärvi and Helsinki, Finland

Ursula Damm public lecture

27 May, 2012

Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland

German artist Ursula Damm presented her recent artistic work and research into synthetic biology. She has become known for her installations dealing with geometry and its social impact on public...

The Art of Gathering Environmental Data

12 May, 2012

Helsinki, Finland

Under the umbrella “The Art of Gathering Environmental Data” the Finnish Society of Bioart organised a series of events concerned with collecting, publishing and using environmental data in...

DoItYourself microscopy and urban micro ecology workshop

18 April, 2012

Helsinki, Finland

This workshop was held by the Finnish Society of Bioart together with Helsinki University Centre for Environment – HENVI, in the context of the HENVI Science Days. Leading a group of 15...

This work combines the approaches of environmental art and scientific experiment. Planted cuttings of cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) and crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) form two sectors in the shape...

Stripped Berry Rug

1 Jan — 1 Feb 2012

Kilpisjärvi

Field_Notes – Cultivating Grounds

26 Sep — 2 Oct 2011

Kilpsijärvi Biological Station, Finland

Hosted by Oron Catts, Marta de Menezes, Anu Osva, Tapio Makela and Terike Haapoja “Field_Notes – Cultivating Grounds” was a week-long field laboratory for the theory and practise of art&science...

EPAC - CityBeat

26 Aug — 12 Dec 2011

Lasipalatsi square, Helsinki, Finland / Riga, Latvia

EPAC is the European Public Art Centre. It is a collaborative engagement between organisations across eight European countries, with the aim to exhibit art&science artworks in urban outdoor...

Ars Bioarctica participated in the project "Weather Tunnel". It was a translocal project envisioned as a participatory, interventionist component of the international media art exhibition titled...

Weather Tunnel - project

1 Jul — 1 Aug 2011

Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Helsinki and Beijing, China

Held by Anu Osva (FI) and Laura Forsström (FI) Arctic Waters was a workshop on nature, research and art, directed by an artist and a scientist. From a scientific perspective it investigated...

Arctic Waters Workshop

28 Jun — 3 Jul 2011

Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Finland

Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea

28 May — 31 Aug 2011

Baltic sea

Until the end of 2010 the Finnish Society of Bioart was the producer of the project Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea, by Capsula for European Capital of Culture Turku2011. It was a...

LECTURE: Staging Authenticity: Transhistorical Approaches to Biotechnological Art by Jens Hauser

27 May 2011

Helsinki, Finland

Bioart Society invites Jens Hauser to give an open lecture at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.

HACKTERIA: BIOELECTRONIX FOR ARTISTS workshop

8 — 12 Mar 2011

Suomenlinna

The workshop is built around the central Hackteria idea of bringing scientific apparatus and protocol into the sphere of art, electronics hacking and open source environments.

#Art&HENVI

Art and HENVI

01 January, 2011

Helsinki, Finland

Art&HENVI was organised by the Finnish Society of Bioart in collaboration with the Helsinki University Centre for Environmental Research (HENVI) in the context of World Design Capital (WDC)...

Bio-science and art - student workshop

19 — 26 May 2010

Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Finland

Together with the former Environmental Art Programme at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Prof. Markku Hakuri and Ars Bioarctica organized a bio-science and art workshop for...

ART AND TECHNOSCIENCE CONFERENCE

24 — 25 Mar 2010

Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki

This two-day conference seeks to contextualize the practices of art&science both in the contemporary political atmosphere and the history of contemporary art.

Havahdus seminar

03 October, 2009

House of Sciences, Helsinki

A seminar focusing on the interaction between arts and biology has been one of the important goals for Ars Bioarctica from the beginning. The Finnish Society of Biology, Vanamo (Suomen Biologian...

Arctic journey - student workshop

5 — 12 Sep 2009

Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Kilpisjärvi, Finland

Teachers in collaboration: Leena Valkeapää (Aalto University), Anu Osva (Finnish Bioart Society), Tuula Häyrynen (Finnish Bioart Society), Maria Tuomi (research assistant Kilpisjärvi Biological...