BIOTECH ART WORKSHOP

SymbioticA & The Arts Catalyst, Kings College, London, UK

The Biotech Art Workshop

The Biotech Art Workshop engaged in wet-exploration where artists could engage in basic biotechnological applications that included DNA extractions, plant/animal tissue culture and transformation processes.
The Biotech Art Workshop group: Jens Hauser, Verena Kaminarz, Franko B, Oron Catts, Brandon Ballengee, Laura Cinti, Sana
The Biotech Art Workshop group: Jens Hauser, Verena Kaminarz, Franko B, Oron Catts, Brandon Ballengee, Laura Cinti, Sana Murrani, Tony Dunne, Jose Eugenio Marchesi, Antony Hall, Jane Prophet, Jenny Boulboulle, Andy Gracie, Simon Gould, Hege Tapio, Nicola Triscott, Ju Gosling, Jill Scott, Gary Cass, Anne Bean, Wim Delvoye, Paula Roush, Heather Barnett.
SymbioticA’s BioTech Workshop is an introduction to biological techniques and issues surrounding the manipulation of living systems. Artists, designers and researchers from various disciplines engage in the biological science lab to utilise language and techniques into their practice and research.
Left: Jose Eugenio Marchesi, Laura Cinti and Tony Dunne listening to Gary Cass. Right: Franko B and Tony Dunne. Biotech
Left: Jose Eugenio Marchesi, Laura Cinti and Tony Dunne listening to Gary Cass. Right: Franko B and Tony Dunne. Biotech Art Workshop, Kings College London, Photos: The Arts Catalyst.
The workshop is a practical and theoretical introduction to the basics of biological techniques and the creation of biological art and design. Through applied ‘hands-on’ methods, the broader philosophical and ethical implications of human intervention with other living things will be explored.
Left: Brandon Balangee, Hege Tapio and Jens Hauser. Right: Wim Delvoye. Biotech Art Workshop, Kings College London, Pho
Left: Brandon Balangee, Hege Tapio and Jens Hauser. Right: Wim Delvoye. Biotech Art Workshop, Kings College London, Photos: The Arts Catalyst.
Led by SymbioticA’s Director Oron Catts and a key scientific collaborator from the School of Anatomy and Human Biology, the workshop is a theoretical and practical introduction to the basics of biological techniques.
Biotech Art Workshop (outside the lab), Kings College London, Photos: The Arts Catalyst.
Biotech Art Workshop (outside the lab), Kings College London, Photos: The Arts Catalyst.