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...
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...
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...
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...
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 children’s symposium that was held at the city hall of Eindhoven, BioArt Laboratories guided the children in a discussion on the fascinating topic of nature. Proposing interesting questions about insects and the relation between humans and insects, led to a nice discussion with...
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...
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...
During our exposition Chilling in a Box during the Dutch Design Week 2015, Intellingentia ICE Eindhoven presented their prototype Frozen Firefly! As was only to be expected, the prototype is made out of ice cream. Intelligentia ICE is an innovative ice cream and taste bar, located in Strijp-S. Intelligentia ICE is well-known for their inventive taste...
During Radboud’s Researchers Night, BioArt Lab made the audience part of nature. Brave contestants tried one of our mysterious green test-tubes which made their bodies spread the scent of freshly cut grass the next morning. Thanks to our Undercover Shots! But what is a drink without...