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Making_Life is a series of three work periods which allows a multidisciplinary group of practitioners to critically, and in an informed manner, engage with the socio-cultural, political and ethical complexities of synthetic biology.
In the seminar, Making_Life participants gave an introduction to synthetic biology and why and how they are interested in engaging with it. Discussed have been key technologies, promises, the hype...
An exhibition with artistic responses to synthetic biology The exhibition Making_Life was the presentation of the artistic prototyping workshop Making_Life III.
Four different groups composed from the...
The House of Science and Letters, Helsinki, Finland
The lecture was part of Making_Life, a project by the Finnish Society of Bioart in collaboration with Biofilia – Base for Biological Arts – Aalto University Finland and Bio:Fiction Vienna Austria...
7 — 8 Jun 2014
The Commons consist of any common resource that is available to all, narrowing basically to two: physical resources or man-made. A plenitude of licensing modes has been developed in the past and...
Making Liposomal Vitamin C
Practical Guide Adapted fromhttp://qualityliposomalc.com/ Materials Scale Blender Ultrasonic bath (if you don't have one, see instructions for...
The last phase of the workshop (has it really been a workshop? or an event? a meeting? and encounter? a happening?) gives participants...
After the hands-on session we continued with a lecture by Martin Hanczyc who’s a Principal Investigator in the Centre for Integrative Biology...
Encapsulation of Bacterial Ecosystems...
Helena Shomar and Stephen Fortune (See below for practical guide)This practical session featured a novel biotechnological technique for...
The third day of Making_Life workshop 2 started with individual presentations by some of the workshop participants. The idea was to present...
Rupert MutzelThis session involved growing wild type and experimentally evolved Escherichia coli cells at various salt concentrations.Protocol...
Andy GracieHalophiles are organisms that love salt. For example bacteria that flourish in salty conditions. In this practical session ...
Working with anaerobic cultures
Oron Catts Inoculation: anaerobic bacteria from mouth - Using blood plates and salt plates to grow bacteria from teeth and gum.
We Are The Only Chance Our morning started with a interesting and quite in depth lecture by Rupert Mutzel – “Panspermia or Not” Important to note...
Abiogenesis - Crystal Garden
The last session of the day was our attempt at creating a chemical garden, which is an experiment involving solid metal salts in an aqueous...
Ramping up physical activity quite dramatically and in a departure from scheduled proceedings, the afternoon was spent constructing Winogradsky...
Moving on from a highly philosophical exploration of life, the principal theory dump we received was courtesy of Markus Schmidt, who has joined our...
Workshop 1 from the 22nd – 27th of May 2014 is an introduction to the molecular biological foundations of synthetic biology.
Workshop 2 from 24th – 28th of November 2014 is looking into the more exotic topics of synthetic biology like protocells and xenobiology.
Workshop 3 from the 17th – 22nd of May 2015 is an intense artistic prototyping workshop which concludes the program with an exhibition and a...
This kit documents the three Making_Life workshops in more detail, and is intended especially for those interested in repeating any parts. It...
The Finnish Society of Bioart and SYNENERGENE invited participants to a workshop about Bio-Commons, in the framework of Camp Pixelache, from the...
Banana peels, beeswax, birch ashes, canola oil, coconut oil, cigarette ashes, olive oil, pork fat, rainwater, Taiwanese Joss paper
An Interstellar Zeitgeber ('time-giver')
Cyanobacteria (S.elongatus PCC 7942), continuous culture device, acrylic, electronics
(at the Speed of Light) Custom made hardware, Zeiss microscope with sample, computer, custom made software
Thierry Bardini, Laura Beloff, Erich...
Vanitas / Dead Growth
Bones, eggshells, seashells, limestone, acids, aquarium, steamer, heating lamp.
Juha Hilpas, Emilio Zamudio
Bones could be described as the...
In the seminar, Making_Life participants will give an introduction to synthetic biology and why and how they are interested in engaging with it. Discussed will be key technologies, promises, the hype which surrounds synthetic biology and the resulting cultural perception. A key dialogue followed by 5 brief presentations will discuss issues and questions addressing synthetic biology in relation to society at large.