Hackers, Makers, Thinkers – Collective Experiments in Social Fermenting

Date/Time
May 27, 2022 - May 28, 2022
10:30 - 18:30


International Conference (hybrid | on-site and livestream)

Registration 27.05.2022:
As the conference on-site has a limited capacity please register here


Program / Day 1 – 27.05.2022

@Berlin Open Lab + designtransfer

10:30 CET
Doors Open / Registration

11:00 CET
Conference Introduction
Statement | Michelle Christensen + Florian Conradi, UdK/TU Berlin
Intro into HMT | Regine Rapp + Christian de Lutz, Art Laboratory Berlin

11:30 – 13:00 CET
Panel A | Hacking Food Narratives
#hacking(agri)culture #viral #socialfermenation #foodperformance

RBSC Rice Brewing Sisters Club (Artists, Seoul) | On Social Fermentation
Pei-Ying Lin (Artist, Designer, Eindhoven) | Virophilia
Oron Catts (Artist, Curator, Symbiotica, Perth) | Nature free (Agri)culture – Hacking and Contesting Future Food Systems

13:00 – 14:00 CET
Lunch Break

14:00 – 16:00 CET
Panel B | Symbiotic Elements
#symbiosis #cyanobacteria #biopolitics #hackinggaia

Cammack Lindsey (Artist, Berlin) | Holobiont: Relics from the Revolution
Irene Agrivina (Artist, Yogyakarta) | Entangled Beauty. A Perfect Marriage
Shujie Wu (Biologist, Plant Pathologist, FU Berlin) | On Cyanobacteria
Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou (Anthropologist/Architect, Lomè) | An Ethics of Entangled Models

Student guided tour through the Berlin Open Lab and student exhibition

16:00 –16:30 CET
Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:30 CET
Panel C | Sonic Cyborgs
#khipu #humancomputing #OpenAI #DIYBio #SoundArt #Noise

Constanza Piña Pardo (Artist, Mexico-City) | The Khipu Project
Nayeli Vega (Artist, Designer, Berlin/ Mexico-City) | Codes in Knots
Interspecifics/ Leslie Garcia, Paloma Lopez (Artists, Researchers, Mexico D.F.) | Codex Virtualis (joining virtually)
Mariana Pérez Bobadilla (Researcher, Artist) | On Symbiosis

Plenum Discussion


Program / Day 2 – 28.05.2022
@Art Laboratory Berlin

10:30 am – 13:00 CET: Curatorial Talks at the exhibition Hackers, Makers, Thinkers followed by three simultaneous Walk & Talks with conference speakers and team as a continuation of the panel discussions from the previous day

14:30 – 18:30 CET: Workshop Soya C(o)u(l)ture/ Ecoprints on BioLeather with artist Irene Agrivina

For further information on the detailed program and registrations for 28.05.2022 please see Art Laboratory Berlin


Conference Team

Art Laboratory Berlin:
Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Tuçe Erel, Tengal Drilon

TU Berlin / UdK Berlin:
Prof. Dr. Michelle Christensen. Prof. Dr. Florian Conradi, Pablo Torres, Berkay Soykan

tripadvisor flickr americanexpress bandcamp basecamp behance bigcartel bitbucket blogger codepen compropago digg dribbble dropbox ello etsy eventbrite evernote facebook feedly github gitlab goodreads googleplus instagram kickstarter lastfm line linkedin mailchimp mastercard medium meetup messenger mixcloud paypal periscope pinterest quora reddit rss runkeeper shopify signal sinaweibo skype slack snapchat soundcloud sourceforge spotify stackoverflow stripe stumbleupon trello tumblr twitch twitter uber vimeo vine visa vsco wechat whatsapp wheniwork wordpress xero xing yelp youtube zerply zillow px aboutme airbnb amazon pencil envelope bubble magnifier cross menu arrow-up arrow-down arrow-left arrow-right envelope-o caret-down caret-up caret-left caret-right