Théo Chauvirey and Amélie Brindamour co-facilitate a two-part introductory workshop on mycelium as a biomaterial for art and design—starting this Friday.
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Artist Talk: Amélie Brindamour and Brice Ammar-Khodja
Our first Artist Talk of the year is taking place this Thursday from 4:30-6:00pm!
Bearer of Light / Feux follets
Artist-in-Residence Amélie Brindamour reflects on her time in the BioLab
Making A Body
Miri Chekahnovich creates a large-scale bio-screen in the lab using agar-based bioplastic.
musings | 2019 edition
musings 2019, the latest publication by food, feminism, fermentation is out now and available to download (see link below). It’s a beautiful collection of stories playing and engaging with these themes. Produced by Maya Hay, this little publication contains writing by WhiteFeather Hunter that dives into some of her work with Théo Chauvirey, Courtney Books,…
CQAM documents work by artist-in-residence Amélie Brindamour
The Conseil québécois des arts médiatiques (CQAM) and Milieux, Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology of Concordia University hosted artist-in-residence Amélie Brindamour throughout October and November 2019. The residency took place at Milieux and Amélie spent a lot of her time working between Milieux’s Maker Space and the Speculative Life Biolab. This afternoon, Martine Frossard…
Jonas Salk and the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt
Last night, Jess Marcotte and team KissAGish were announced runners up!
Nathalie Dubois-Calero Animates Micro-Propagation Workshop
As a part of the fall MilieuxMake workshop series, Nathalie Dubois-Calero gave a workshop on plant cloning and introductory micro-propagation techniques last Wednesday. In this session, we tested Nathalie’s new DIY techniques with carrots, garlic, and russet potatoes. We’re going to be checking-up on our samples over the next couple of months and monitoring their…
Full house @ Pecha Kucha night
We had a full house at the BioLab Meet-up and Pecha Kucha event Thursday evening. Seasoned BioLabers and prospective members presented their research and artistic practices in the Speculative Life Cluster commons. We also welcomed Alice Jarry into her new role as Lab Director and celebrated the start of Amélie Brindamour’s artist-in-residency—a joint effort between…
MilieuxMake Workshop—Cloning Plants: An Introduction to Micro-Propagation
In this workshop biologist & artist Nathalie Dubois-Calero will be teaching DIY methods she developed for the micro-propagation of plants and vegetables from infertile or ‘protected’ samples. By controlling hormone levels during the propagation, we will also be able to affect the growth patterns of the plants, allowing for the creation of unusual plant morphologies. Her processes…
For Luca at Art POP
Jacqui Beaumont is exhibiting her work, For Luca, at Studio Rialto as a part of the 15th edition of Art Pop—the visual arts component of POP Montreal. This year the group exhibition is exploring themes of movement, discovery, desire, bodies, and secrets. The exhibition will be open from Sept. 25-28 / 11am-8pm and Sept.29 12pm-6pm at…
