This event will bring together, over three consecutive days, local and international artists, creators, scientists, researchers and professionals from the artistic and cultural sectors. Invited guests and visitors, along with a team of mediators, will also participate in this arena of creation and knowledge sharing, at the intersections of art, design, science, and multiple forms of knowledge and forms of knowing
Category: student research
[re]capture in residence at Perte de Signal
Exploring the concept of ‘filtration’ using biomaterials, plants, and electronic strategies, [re]capture is a dialogue between in situ atmospheric data capture devices and gallery installation. With air toxicity a growing issue, this ongoing project seeks to give shape to the microscopic invisibility and the macroscopic dimension of air pollution.
[Vernissage] jacqueline beaumont at Projet Casa: Sonnet à la science. Ode à la magie.
Vernissage July 29th 2022, 5pm. Exhibition runs July 29th – September 4th
[Vernissage] jacqueline beaumont & Philippe Vandal at Eastern Bloc for In the Middle, a Chimera
On Thursday, May 5th, Eastern Bloc hosted the vernissage for Milieux’s In the Middle, a Chimera. This opening party kicked off two weeks of exhibitions, workshops, and a symposium by Milieux members and affiliates in venues around the city. Biolab members jacqueline beaumont and Philippe Vandal were two of the featured artists at Eastern Block…
_SPIRATION — Paris | May 17th – 20th
The biolab is off to Paris to participate in an international research-creation workshop on membranes and air activity
Biolab at In the Middle, a Chimera — May 5th – 18th
Brice Ammar Khodja, jacqueline beaumont, Vanessa Mardirossian, and Philippe Vandal will be presenting work at the Milieux Institute End-of-Year Exhibition and Symposium.
Cooking and Culturing Colour Part IV
It’s results day! It’s only been 48 hrs since our last workshop and our plates and fabric samples are already brimming with pigmented bacterial cultures. Our fourth workshop session takes us through the final steps of bacterial dyeing textiles, which involves printing using the stencils we prepared on Tuesday and getting all the samples ready…
Cooking and Culturing Colour Part III
In the third instalment of this workshop series, we were able to see how well our bacterial plates and liquid cultures grew over the week. We then harnessed the pigment-producing abilities of this bacterium to colour both un-dyed fabric samples as well as some of the food waste-dyed fabrics from the first session. At the…
Cooking and Culturing Colour Part II
This week, Vanessa facilitated the second instalment of the Cooking and Culturing Colour workshop series. We were able to see the results of the food waste dyeing we did last week and experimented with modifying the colour of the fabric using different acidic, basic, and iron solutions. We used everything from soda ash to lemon…
Cooking and Culturing Colour Part I
On March 15th, Vanessa Mardirossian facilitated Part I of the Cooking and Culturing Colour workshop series. She introduced participants to dyeing with food waste and showed us how to prepare protein and cellulose fibres (using different mordants and pre-treatments) for the dye baths. We prepared dyes using onion skins, avocado pits and peels, black beans,…
[Workshop] Cooking and Culturing Colour — March 15, 22, 29, & 31
Vanessa Mardirossian to lead a 4-part hybrid workshop on how to create compostable dyes from food waste and bacteria
FAB16 x BioLab Recap
FAB16 may be over, but you can watch the workshop recordings online.
Speculative Life BioLab 