WhiteFeather named Québeçoise extraordinaire in Science, URBANIA Magazine

WhiteFeather has been named as a 2018 “Québeçois.es extraordinaires” by URBANIA Magazine (Montreal). WhiteFeather was one of five nominees in the Science category, nominated by Science journalist, Marianne Desaultels-Marissal, who wrote about WhiteFeather’s work for the issue, Spécial Extraordinaire 2018. Voici les 50 Québécois.es qui créent l’extraordinaire en 2018 !

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A collaborative project exploring the sculptural and metaphorical potential of SCOBY

Bacterial BioPigments Workshop

with WhiteFeather Hunter Thursday, June 14th from 6pm to 9pm & Saturday, June 16th, from 1pm to 4pm 10 participants maximum $20 | To register email ateliers@studioxx.org Organized by Studio XX in partnership with Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology (Concordia) This two-day workshop series will introduce non-scientist artists to the bioart practice of…

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Cultured Waters: Mangling maker methods through art/science research-creation

Cultured Waters: Mangling maker methods through art/science research-creation workshop led by Treva Pullen Monday, April 9th, 9am-12pm This half-day workshop will explore the complex systems of microbial life in Montreal’s Lachine Canal through an experiment in water culturing. Together we will create Winogradsky columns, a simple device for culturing a large diversity of microorganisms invented in…

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Roots and Shoots – Plant Tissue Culture Workshop

Roots and Shoots – Plant Tissue Culture Workshop with Nathalie Dubois-Calero EV 10.835 – Milieux Speculative Life BioLab (assisted by WhiteFeather Hunter) Two sessions: First session: Thursday, March 22 from 10am-1pm and 2-5pm (lunch break 1-2pm) Follow up session: Thursday, April 26 from 1-3pm Learn the lab-craft of micro-propagation of plant tissue cells into cultured…

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Bacteriological Soil Analysis workshop

This workshop, held exclusively for the Speculative Life Research Cluster’s Ethnography Lab research group, Montreal Waterways, will look to bacteriological analysis of soil samples. These samples, collected from the (now destroyed) historical Village des Tanneries, will complement the ethnographic study conducted by the group. Workshop date and time: Thursday, December 14, 3:30-5pm Led by WhiteFeather…

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Maker Week with Matt Ratto

As part of Maker Week at Milieux with Matt Ratto (University of Toronto), workshop participants visited the Speculative Life BioLab to engage with the theme of Quantifiable Self through microbiology. Each participant cultured their own microbiome, which was then allowed to grow over the duration of the week. Results were variable, with some participants culturing…

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