{"id":658,"date":"2013-08-18T14:26:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T21:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2013-08-18T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T21:26:51","slug":"biofilia-base-for-biological-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/18\/biofilia-base-for-biological-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"BiofiliA &#8211; Base for Biological Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2013\/biofilia01.jpg\" width=\"730\" alt=\"Biofilia manager (left) and Ulla Taipale (right)\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biofilia manager (left) and Ulla Taipale (right)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week, our friend and artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnalangstrom.net\/\" title=\"Minna Langstrom\" target=\"_blank\">Minna Langstrom<\/a> introduced Brooke and I to <a href=\"http:\/\/00capsula00.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ulla Taipale<\/a> who is coordinating <a href=\"http:\/\/biofilia.aalto.fi\/en\/\" title=\"BiofiliA\" target=\"_blank\">BiofiliA<\/a> &#8211; a bio-art lab at Aalto University in Helsinki.  Ulla was so generous as to give us a tour of the lab which consists of an electronics area, a wet lab and biology lab.  It was amazing to see a university dedicating the funding and facilities to a relatively avant-garde practice of combining biology and art.  Pictured above is Ulla to the right and the lab manager a recent bio graduate of the university.  <\/p>\n<p>As the BiofiliA site states, the project is &#8220;a biological art unit was launched under the Aalto ARTS in 2012. It offers a platform and infrastructure for trans-disciplinary research and education that aim at creating cultural discussion and innovation around the topics related to the manipulation of life and biological processes at a practical and theoretical level, including philosophical and ethical dimensions\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2013\/biofilia02.jpg\" width=\"730\" alt=\"Biofilia lab\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biofilia lab<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2013\/biofilia03.jpg\" width=\"730\" alt=\"Biofilia lab - the flow of water is controlled by student's programs\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biofilia lab<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2013\/biofilia04.jpg\" width=\"730\" alt=\"Biofilia lab\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biofilia lab<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Artists that have worked collaboratively with scientists at BiofeliA include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au\/residents\/catts\" title=\"Oron Catts\" target=\"_blank\">Oron Catts<\/a> of SymbioticA, <a href=\"http:\/\/apiary.be\/\" title=\"Christina Stadblauer\" target=\"_blank\">Christina Stadblauer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirangangadharan.com\/\" title=\"Kiran Gangadharan\" target=\"_blank\">Kiran Gangadharan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffur.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Agnes Meyer-Brandis<\/a> and they hope to bring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulvanouse.com\/\" title=\"Paul Vanouse\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Vanouse<\/a> for 2014.  Art and biology students may take courses at BiofiliA and work along side of resident artists.<\/p>\n<p>One of the ongoing projects exists outside the labs &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/melliferopolis.net\/\" title=\"Hexa-Hive Village\" target=\"_blank\">Hexa-Hive Village<\/a> an experiment with urban bee keeping.  The hives were designed by Christina Stadlbauer and Kiran Gangadharan.  And beyond producing honey, <a href=\"http:\/\/tai-studio.org\/\" title=\"Till Bovermann\" target=\"_blank\">Till Bovermann<\/a> of Media Lab Helsinki has installed contact microphones in one of the hives for &#8220;project hive listening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2013\/biofilia05.jpg\" width=\"730\" alt=\"Hexa-Hive Village\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hexa-Hive Village, a BiofiliA project<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2013\/biofilia06.jpg\" width=\"730\" alt=\"Hexa-Hive Village\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hexa-Hive Village, a BiofiliA project<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2013\/biofilia07.jpg\" width=\"730\" alt=\"Hexa-Hive Village\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hexa-Hive Village, a BiofiliA project<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, our friend and artist Minna Langstrom introduced Brooke and I to Ulla Taipale who is coordinating BiofiliA &#8211; a bio-art lab at Aalto University in Helsinki. Ulla was so generous as to give us a tour of the lab which consists of an electronics area, a wet lab and biology lab. 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