Fermented TriptychKombucha SCOBY, 2019 Kombucha SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast) is a living organism that continuously forms cellulosic layers. These layers are floating just above the Kombucha liquid, it’s flow and expansion create natural and simple movements. Drawing inspiration from movements found in nature and mindfulness practices, Fermented Triptych, is meant to be…
Sporobole interviews WhiteFeather Hunter and Denis Groleau
Sporobole, an artist-run centre located in Sherbrooke, QC, interviewed WhiteFeather Hunter and Denis Groleau in the Biolab Thursday about their collaborative art-sci process and the Salivam project. “The research process encapsulated not only scientific laboratory experiments punctuated by art-based DIYbio approaches, but was also a process of developing a non-hierarchical transdisciplinary research relationship within an…
Interspecies Meditations for Hybrid Futures
As a part of Queering the Map’s On_Site exhibition at Concordia’s 4TH SPACE, biolab member Jacqui Beaumont facilitated the workshop “Interspecies Meditations for Hybrid Futures” on July 23rd, 1–4pm. “Interspecies Meditations for Hybrid Futures” attempts to engage with the critical disposition of animalian and botanical interactions. When personal connections are made to the natural world,…
BoochFest Summer 2019
BoochFest MTL—an international kombucha festival taking place in the IGA Stadium in Jarry Park between August 23-25—invited a team of artists, designers, and researchers from the biolab to create an installation for the event. The team is culturing multiple large-scale SCOBY cellulose pools in both the Speculative Life Biolab and in BricoBio, a DIY bio…
iGEM Concordia 2019
iGEM is an international synthetic biology competition directed towards bringing new minds into the practicing world of genetic engineering. Every year, teams come up with projects that tackle real world problems using synthetic biology. The research process takes place primarily over the summer and culminates in fall at the annual jamboree. Biolab member Jacqueline Beaumont…
Waterways Biodiversity Group at the Spec Life Biolab
Over the summer, Devon McKellar will be leading research in the Speculative Life Biolab as part of the Waterways Biodiversity Group. This project documents and studies soil microbes and plants near the Saint Paul lock on the Lachine Canal. As a part of this project, Devon will be collecting two samples near the base of…
Mycocene at ELEKTRA
Somme (QC–CA) exhibited their work at OBORO as a part of the International Digital Arts Festival
Slimedia: Physarum as medium and cultural mediator
New book chapter co-authored by WhiteFeather Hunter, Sarah Choukah, and Tristan Matheson
Bucci at the McCord Museum
Milieux research-creation projects featured at the Fashion Tech of the Future exhibition May 30th.
Haleh Vedadi presents Chador: Veil | Tent at the Master of Design showcase
From April 30th–May 3rd
BioCircuitry: Slime Mold Networks and Computational Models workshop
Tuesday, April 16th 1-3pm Instructors: Owen Coolidge & Matt Halpenny, with Alex Bachmayer Slime mold is a biological wild card capable of forming networks of emergent behaviour and intelligence out of single cells. Their colonies have collective memory banks and sophisticated problem solving skills, allowing them to act as mini biocomputers. Along with their efficient…
Biolab artist Miri Chek at the Phi Centre on Nuit Blanche
“Being With The Trouble” and “Grow” to be shown at multisensorial event—2040: L’an/demain on March 2nd.
