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Till Bovermann will contribute to the Science Trails residency by creating an interactive digital sound walk.

The Catalogue features works by nearly 60 Bioart Society members.

As part of the Creative Europe project 'Arc-hive', a two-part publication and an open-source digital platform have been launched.

North Escaping residencies are transdisciplinary research residencies taking place at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.

North Escaping residencies are transdisciplinary research residencies taking place at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.

This is Aaro Murphy's first blog entry of his time spent in the Tokyo Art & Science Research Residency during autumn 2022.

A diverse and multidisciplinary group of fellows selected for Ars Bioarctica residency for 2023.

Aaro Murphy writes about his experiences in the Tokyo Art & Science Research Residency. Murphy had his residency in autumn 2022. This is his second blog entry.

Aaro Murphy writes about his experiences in the Tokyo Art & Science Research Residency. Murphy had his residency in autumn 2022. This is his third blog entry.

Aaro Murphy writes about his experiences in the Tokyo Art & Science Research Residency. Murphy had his residency in autumn 2022. This is his fourth and final blog entry.

With another year passing in a flash, it is time to reflect on the phenomenal year of 2022 at Bioart Society.

2020: The Walk is an art and activist project during which Marta Moreno Muñoz and Oscar Martín travelled from Granada to Helsinki mostly on foot. The project ended at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station where Moreno Muñoz and Martín spent two weeks in Ars Bioarctica residency.

Oscar Martín presents a parallel sound work that he conceptualised and pre-produced during an Ars Bioarctica residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.

The Bioart Society is looking for an Artistic Director. Deadline for applications Sunday 16th April 2023.

As a screenwriter, I came to Kilpisjärvi to better understand the experience of the locals, scientists and researchers at this station in the heart of Lapland. My goal was to document their stories and emotions to inspire my TV series project – one detail at a time.

The prospect of traveling to Lapland may seem daunting to a city dweller living outside the Nordic countries. To help you prepare, here are a few tips from a fellow city dweller who had never traveled to the far north.

Cynthia Blanchette spent two weeks exploring the January darkness of Kilpisjärvi. Her residency was part of her year-long artistic research focused on wetland swamps.

During her Ars Bioarctica residency, Sanni Priha worked on her film project 'Farewell to Snow'.

Rewilding Cultures network is issuing 8 grants for mobility and projects and experiments which conribute to the rethinking of mobility and cultural exchange in novel ways. The application deadline is May 19th 22:59 CEST / 23:59 EEST.

We are looking for a Finnish artist or an artist based in Finland for a month-long art & science research residency in Tokyo, Japan, during autumn and winter 2023.

Three open calls for Ars Bioarctica residency programmes at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. Deadline for applications 2nd June 2023.

The Rewilding Cultures network partners issued 8 grants to support mobility, projects and experiments which conribute to the rethinking of mobility and cultural exchange in novel ways.

Aino Johansson spent three weeks in Ars Bioarctica residency working on her soil and forest related projects with chromatographies, butoh dance, forest mapping, activism and environmental education.

The Critical Garden Collective spent two weeks in residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station searching for bipolar mosses and working with hybrid creatures, named Cybryonts.

Antti Tenetz is a visual artist situated at the interface between media and arts, biological art and urban art. During his residency in Japan, Tenetz will explore symbiotic, other-than-human relationships.

We are looking for interns to join our small team of four for autumn, spring and early summer.

Field_Notes – The North Escaping groups include professionals and practitioners from various backgrounds, who will travel to Kilpisjärvi for two-weeks of intense field work. The groups are hosted by Erich Berger, Till Bovermann and Elizabeth McTernan.

Andrew Gryf Paterson was selected as one of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant receivers in spring 2023. They will commence their journey from Finland to Montenegro on Monday 8th October, exploring potential future routes of human climate migration in reverse. During the next weeks, Paterson will keep a travel diary on the Bioart Society website.

Andrew Gryf Paterson was selected as one of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant receivers in spring 2023. They are travelling from Finland to Montenegro, exploring potential future routes of human climate migration in reverse. During their travel, Paterson will keep a travel diary on the Bioart Society website. This is the first blog entry.

Andrew Gryf Paterson was selected as one of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant receivers in spring 2023. They are travelling from Finland to Montenegro, exploring potential future routes of human climate migration in reverse. During their travel, Paterson will keep a travel diary on the Bioart Society website. This is the second blog entry.

Till Bovermann had his Science Trails residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in August-September 2023. This text is about revisiting microworlds, the first of three blog entries about his time in Kilpisjärvi.

Till Bovermann had his Science Trails residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in August-September 2023. This is the second of three blog entries about his time in Kilpisjärvi.

Till Bovermann had his Science Trails residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in August-September 2023. This is the last of three blog entries about his time in Kilpisjärvi.

The Bioart Society is excited to launch a new European collaboration project, which will develop a standardised platform to profoundly implement artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques to overcome current hurdles in industrial biotechnology and truly unlock the full potential in biotech engineering.

The Bioart Society is excited to launch a new European collaboration project, which aims to bridge students from European and Neighbourhood East universities and to engage them with climate competences.

The moderators will guide discussions in smaller groups and help facilitate active student participation during virtual exchange weeks on Zoom.

Elle Rose Nish was selected for a week-long residency in TUO TUO's facilities in Joutsa, Finland. The residency was part of TUO TUO‘s community of cultural pollinators project which is a platform designed to increase cross-pollination among artist communities. In this blog entry, Elle writes about her experiences in residency.

We are happy to announce our yearly open call for Ars Bioarctica residency program at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. Deadline for applications is 15th February 2024.

Wait and Hear was one of the groups of Field_Notes – The North Escaping. The group proposed an open exploration based on listening and the groups activities were based on both listening and somatic experience. In this blog post, the group shares their journey and process during the two-week-long field laboratory.

Andrew Gryf Paterson was selected as one of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant receivers in spring 2023. They are travelling from Finland to Montenegro, exploring potential future routes of human climate migration in reverse. During their travel, Paterson will keep a travel diary on the Bioart Society website. This is the fourth and final blog entry.

Artists, researchers and technologists can apply for support for sustainable mobility or mobility-related work taking place in 2024. Deadline for applications is 30th March 2024.

We are looking for a Finnish artist or an artist based in Finland for a month-long art & science research residency in Tokyo, Japan, during autumn and winter 2024.

Antti Tenetz writes about his experiences in the Tokyo Art & Science Research Residency. Tenetz travelled to Japan to have his residency in Decembr 2023.

Hilde Methi and Neal Cahoon are currently in Kilpisjärvi in The North Escaping residency, following up some curatorial threads from their previous work together.

Second Order was one of the groups of Field_Notes – The North Escaping. Second Order group members embed themselves into the other groups with the aim to document their work, gain insight into their approaches and offer counter perspectives. The aim is to critically look at the groups methods and practises of the field, which might include the encouragement to step out of predefined schemes or even to violate traditional field norms in order to experiment with new ideas.

Christine Hvidt travels to Kilpisjärvi over the weekend for The North Escaping residency. During her residency, she will be approaching Kilpisjärvi as an entwined network of electrical bodies.

The Rewilding Cultures network partners issued 8 grants to support mobility, projects and experiments which conribute to the rethinking of mobility and cultural exchange in novel ways.

16 transdisciplinary artists and artist groups have been selected fo Ars Bioarctica residency for 2024–2025.

Lau Kaker is an artist and curator from Belgium based in Helsinki, Finland, working with projects exploring the collective and fictional meaning of home, shaped by their research on the concept of belonging. They'll dedicate their time in Japan to their ongoing research on interspecies communication revolving around the indigo color tradition.

Hannah Wiker Wikström travels to Kilpisjärvi mid-July for The North Escaping residency. During her time in Kilpisjärvi, she will continue her ongoing research on post-industrial heritage in a Nordic context through the prism of fetal-maternal microchimerism and the troubling of time and scale.

We're looking for a new addition to join our team in October. Deadline for applications is 26th August 2024.

Bioart Society member artists will be having their residencies from July until October.

Neal Cahoon writes about his experiences in the North Escaping residency in Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.

Christine Hvidt travelled to Kilpisjärvi Biological Station for The North Escaping residency in June 2024. During her time in residency, she worked and lived through the frames of Electric Ecology, training sensing and spending time with the places and the peoples there.

Lauri Linna will study wind and its life and observe the arctic athmosphere at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.

We host an open call for 4 fully funded residencies across the two European Union Horizon projects deCYPher and Bioindustry 4.0. Three artists will be selected to participate in the deCYPher project and one in the Bioindustry 4.0 project.

Bioart Society selected Višnja Kisić and Goran Tomka for Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation 2024 via the open call that was held in spring 2024.

Eliisa Suvanto will start as the new Managing Director at the end of October.

Hannah Wiker Wikström travelled to Kilpisjärvi Biological Station for The North Escaping residency in July 2024. During her time in residency, she worked with a film, which will be a part of a longer research on timespacematter imagination.

We are happy to announce our yearly open call for Ars Bioarctica residency program at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. Deadline for applications is 19th January 2025.

With another year passing in a flash, it is time to reflect on the phenomenal year of 2024 at Bioart Society.