LifeLab_Fiskars 2013 – Laura Beloff : research and artistic practice

recent activities

Recent activities and list of publications can be found HERE (it is my university site – I am lacking time to update several places)

Recent publications are primarily found here https://itu.academia.edu/LauraBeloff

2016
June: talking at Finnish Embassy in Copenhagen – a part of the Hybrid Matters project activities.

May: I was the first opponent for the PhD-defence of Nora Vaage on art & science / bioart.

May: Hybrid Matters exhibition at Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen Denmark, including The Condition and the new version of The Fly Printer – Extended that includes AI component; a neural network learning system.

May: at ISEA – in Hong Kong I was talking about the interests and background of The Condition and The Fly Printer works.

March: Hybrid Matters exhibition at Kunsthalle
Grenland in Norway, which included The Condition-work.

2015
November: Invited guest research visit to Mexico City Univeristy – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Doing a workshop on plants and robots: https://robotsandplants.wordpress.com/

November: The new version of the fly printer ‘Flyprinter: Danish Crown’ is exhibited in “TRANSSPECIES – an assembly across species lines”- exhibition in Copenhagen; curated and organized by labae.org https://www.facebook.com/events/755099297933551/

October: Invited speaker at ICT 2015 Innovate, Connect, Transform conference. Talking about art, design, creativity, and collaboration challenges between art, science, technology, and industry. Organized by European Commission in Lisbon. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/events/cf/ict2015/item-display.cfm?id=15133

October: Talking and participating at Renewable Futures Conference in Riga http://rixc.org/en/conference/

September: Participating in the Field_Notes – Hybrid Matters field research week in Kilpisjärvi, Finland. https://www.facebook.com/groups/bioartsociety/

June: Keynote at STARTS symposium – Science, Technology and the ARTS. The European Commission recognizes the emergence of vital arts and research communities who work jointly on the unique usage of technology. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/ict-art-starts-platform

May: Participating in the Bioart panel at Click-festival http://www.clickfestival.dk/

May: Participating in the Making Life http://bioartsociety.fi/making_life/ (2 workshops, 1 production workshop + exhibition + symposium during 2014-15)

February-March: Jury member for Art & Protocell Residency at University of Southern Denmark – flint.sdu.dk/ and
www.museion.ku.dk/2014/12/art-and-protocell-residency

January: Showing Fly Printer at Sul Sal-exhibition in Odemira, Portugal.

TEACHING / WORK:
Currently working as Associate Professor and Head of Section for Culture & Games at IT University in Copenhagen.
Teaching a great course on Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics and Art; together with Kasper Støy and Sebastian Risi. https://real.itu.dk/teaching/courses/

2014
October: Presenting in Environmental Entanglements Symposium – on Art, Technology and Natures at Videnskabernes Selskab in Copenhagen. Organized between 4 Danish Universities.

October: Invited keynote at International Meeting of Art and Technology, Brasilia, Brazil. http://medialab.ufg.br/art/programacao

September: some web-presence – http://fivewordsforthefuture.eu/?p=685

September: Invited speaker at Danish Kultur Styrelsen (Danish Agency for Art and Culture) Yearly meeting; on digital art. http://www.kulturstyrelsen.dk/om-kulturstyrelsen/moeder-og-konferencer/kulturstyrelsens-aarsmoede-2014/

August: Jury member for CORE77 design competition.

August: Interview at Billed Kunstneren – Danish Art Magazine: http://issuu.com/billedkunst123/docs/bkf_0314_t_web?e=1324666/9199713

July: Invited Artist-in residence (with Erich Berger) at Cultivamos Cultura Residency in Portugal by Marta de Menezes. https://www.cultivamoscultura.org/ A work Fly printer – prototype no 3 was produced during the residency. Collaboration with Maria Antonia Gonzalez Valerio. Shown in Sao Luis, Cultura Cultivamos space during summer.

June: Received the largest Nordic Artistic project grant from Nordisk Kulturfond!! Hybrid Matters is a collaboration with Nordic partners. http://www.nordiskkulturfond.org/da/hybrid-matters-digital-2015-16/

June: Jury member for the Science Visualization Competition in relation to Alife conference, New York.

June: Talking and presenting A Bioreaktor project-in-progress at Kobenlab event; part of ESOF 2014 program. http://www.kopenlab.dk/kopenlab.dk/index.html

January-April: continued working with M. M. Borch on Bioareaktor project.

May & November: Participating in Making Life I and Making Life II workshops on synthetic biology and culture/art. http://bioartsociety.fi/archives/2407

May – June: Evaluator for European Commission research grant proposals.

January-September: Part of an exhibition Museum of Insects, which is an experimental project by Amy Youngs. http://hypernatural.com/museum/index.html

2013

September: Exhibiting at Kunsthalle Grenland, exhibition FOO, Norway

September: Participating in a professional art&science workshop Field_Notes II / Deep Time at Kilpisjärvi by Biooart_society_Finland (FI)

July: fresh from print, a new book (edited by Beloff, Berger, Haapoja): Field_Notes – from Landscape to Laboratory / Maisemasta Laboratorioon. http://bioartsociety.fi/books

May – September: exhibiting in Fiskars, Kipinä-exhibition: LIFELAB, extended version.

May: article published in Transhumanist Reader; a major book on human enhancement and future of humans!

March: Edinburgh, invited presentation at Evaporation of Things- symposium; Center for Informatics / New Media Scotland, UK.

TEACHING / WORK:

Currently working as Associate Professor and Head of Section at IT University in Copenhagen.

2012

December: Paper presented at Mutamorphosis Conference in Prague, CZ.

November-December: Exhibiting results of Art & Henvi – project at Science Corner /Tiedekulma.

June: Solo exhibition “lifeLab” in Hamburg Friese-Gallery. ; exhibiting two works: APPENDIX and LIFELAB

June-July: SUMU-jacket (collaboration with Riikka Townsend and Tiina Uimonen) and Appendix will be at Pyhäniemen Kartano summer-exhibition

May: Talk at Wind As Context: Wilderness Art Conference Hailuoto, Finland.

May: In dialogue with Kati Vierikko about art & science collaborations and their potentiality at Helsinki University Science Corner.

May: Invited lecture at IT University in Copenhagen.

May: Keynote talk at Senses of Embodiment research workshop, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Organized and curated by Mika Elo.

April: Submitted my dissertation to Plymouth University Viva in the beginning of July, then some anticipated revisions, and so on… Passed and done!!

January-December: Partcipating in Art & Science collaboration with Helsinki University Environmental Research on Urban Ecosystems.

TEACHING:

January-February: Curating/organizing a successful lecture-series for Aalto University: Human Design or Evolution? Thank You all for participating and attending!

…. and much more in the past…

short video from Fiskars; audience using the work

click below for more information and selection of images from Fiskars