"Kangas": jacquard-työpaja (biotaide)

Pietarinen, H. (Organisoija), Noora Sandgren (Organisoija)

Taiteiden tiedekunta

Aktiviteetti: Tapahtumaan osallistuminen ja tapahtuman järjestäminen › Työpajan, paneelin, session tai tutoriaalin järjestäminen

Kuvaus

“Kangas” ( h: 8 meters, w: 1.4 meters, natural materials, man-made fibers) is a shared collage by Heidi Pietarinen, Noora Sandgren, Melissa Grant, and Anne Yoncha. The work stitches together acts and images from drawings, photographs, and microscopic slides, into a digital jacquard weaving.

Our group is interested in the Finnish idea of “kangas” - a word which translates to “fabric” and “forest type”, de-scribing the intricate enmeshment of species, human and non-human, aerial and terrestrial – in our exploration of “the Heavens”. After collecting and identifying our microbial collaborators in Kilpisjärvi, this piece attempts to get to know other-than-human materialities. We wondered: what are the abilities of these microbes? What are the bridges between us? How did a bacterium first isolated in Antarctica make its way to the air above the Arctic circle, did it travel this distance?

This still-on-going process of understanding involves many translations, moving from analog to digital, and back – with openness.

Aikajakso	25 maaliskuuta 2021
Tapahtuman tyyppi	Työpaja
Sijainti	Lapua, Suomi
Vaikuttavuus / laajuus	Paikallinen

Hakusanat

biotaide
bioprospektio
jacquard-kangas
jacquard-teknologia

Asiakirjat ja linkit

The HAB (High Altitude Bioprospecting) Team have returned to BOM! High Altitude bioprospecting (HAB) is a long term project involving scientists and artists in a quest to explore extreme environments, particularly the stratosphere and detect and capture microorganisms that may live or survive there. The exhibition draws on the expertise of a family of HAB collaborators who come from the worlds of science, engineering, art and maths. Their work investigates the invisible microbial life in the air, understood as both a co-existing benign presence or as a potential threat, as has been found in recent times of the Coronavirus pandemic. Included in the exhibition is a novel innovation made at BOM during Robotic Engineer Oliver De Peyer’s residency in early 2020. De Peyer created the second iteration of the HAB ‘device’ which is designed to sample microbes whilst in ‘flight’. The HAB team have been working together since 2008 and have exhibited their work at BOM (2016, Ingenious and Fearless Companions) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (Digital Design Festival 2016). To find out more you can check out their photographic journey book here and read Paul Shepherd’s account of the first experiments here. This programme of work will travel to Helsinki, Finland later on in 2021 to be shown at the Bioart Society. The works are heavily informed by the Bioart society’s 2019 residency ‘Field_Notes – The Heavens’, of which the HAB team were involved, read more here. The HAB Team is: Melissa Grant, Oliver de Peyer, Hannah Imlach, Anna Dumitriu, Alex May, Paul Shepherd, Heidi Pietarinen, Till Bovermann, Anne Yoncha and Noora Sandgren.

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Projektit
Future Bio-Arctic Design - Luonnonmukainen älytekstiili
Projekti: Yhteisrahoitteinen projekti

Laboratoriot ja studiot
BioARTech laboratorio
Laboratoriot/Studiot: Laboratorio

"Kangas": jacquard-työpaja (biotaide)

Kuvaus

Hakusanat

Asiakirjat ja linkit

Tähän liittyvä sisältö

Projektit

Future Bio-Arctic Design - Luonnonmukainen älytekstiili

Laboratoriot ja studiot

BioARTech laboratorio