During the Dutch Design Week, BioArt Laboratories held a grand opening of ‘Open StadsLab’. Where we set up a mobile laboratory with incubators, culture shakers, flowhoods and every other tool necessary to work safe with biological materials in the middle of a city. We showed...
To introduce children to nature and biomimicry, BioArt Laboratories has prepared a workshop for them on bees and their honeycomb structures. The workshop is based on the Dutch classic ‘Erik en het kleine insectenboek’, by Godfried Bomans. In this book insects talk to the protagonist,...
During the Dutch Design Week, BioArt Laboratories created a total experience with the exhibition ’Chilling in a Box’ at the ‘Veemgebouw’ in Eindhoven. ’Chilling in a Box’ operated thematically between Food and Design, and was symbolically placed in between the Foodmarket and the Dutch Design Awards. For...
In the month of November, ‘Open StadsLab’ was all about bioluminescence. Several groups of students from all over the Netherlands (the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Koninklijke academie van beeldende kunsten Den Haag e.a.) visited BioArt Laboratories. They were introduced to bio-art, biotechnology and...
BioArt Laboratories was invited to contribute to the museum night of November the 7th at the NEMO science center. The theme of the evening was ‘Enlighten me’, as part of the 2015 international year of light. BioArt Laboratories’ biologist Bram Geers demonstrated how to isolate...
This year the first edition of InScience, a Dutch International Science Film Festival, took place. The festival welcomed 6.000 visitors, including 100 (inter)national professionals from the film industry and scientific world. For five days people enjoyed films about science, debates, experiments, DIY Labs and art at...
On Tuesday, the 8th of December, BioArt Laboratories was invited to talk during the ‘WYSIWYG Geekborrel’ at the Kennismakerij in Tilburg. Artists who were part of ‘Chilling in a Box’ at the Dutch Design Week 2015 and representatives of BioArt Laboratories, spoke about their projects and...
The BIO ART & DESIGN AWARD (called Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award till 2013) is a unique competition that aims at stimulating young artists and designers from The Netherlands and abroad to experiment with bio art and design and to collaborate with renowned Dutch...
On the 19th of April an international delegation of the Districts of Creativity (DC) Network visited BioArt Laboratories. The delegation, consisting of about fifty people from countries such as India, Finland, Scotland and the United States, stayed in Brabant from the 19th to 22nd of...
While nature has been evolving, and thus improving itself over the past 3,8 billion years, mankind only started developing technologies about 10,000 years ago. Relatively recently, scientists, innovators and others have discovered that there is a lot to be learned from nature. In this case,...