Feral Labs
TTTLab, @Corfu, Greece

TTTlabs are highly speculative hybrid events of intense co-creation, co-education and co-development set in the Ionian Islands. TTTlabs are multi-person field work experiences that allow time and focus for in-depth play with concepts and practices of: Developmental Biology & Deprogramming, New Reproductive Technology & Rewilding, Bird Watching & Rehabilitation, Human Germline Genetic Editing & Ferality, Performance Art & Nonhuman Enrichment. “BioFeral.BeachCamp”, the first TTTlab, will be on the Island of Corfu, Greece. The emphasis will be on Bioart as fundamental research (also known as curiosity based research) including bioart labs as ‘ethics in action’. Focused on hacking research methods with wetlab Bioart, this camp includes creative video and sonic arts mash-ups, novel apparatus prototyping and bio-ferality experiments in performance art.

https://inarts.eu/
ArtLabo Retreat, @ Island of Batz, Bretagne, FR

The ArtLabo Retreat is bi-annual week-long international gathering of the extended ArtLabo Network. It takes place at the Island of Batz, off the Roscoff coast (Bretagne, FR). Its focus is on sharing research-creation practices in the field of marine biology, biomaterials, sustainable food, upcycling & circular economy, open source technology, video & sound arts and media publication.

The ArtLabo Retreat will invite national and international guests to mentor workshops with a strong focus on: bioart practices related to biology of evolution and marine biology; edible algae ethno-botany, foraging & cooking; upcycling and biomaterials; hypermedia practices related to those fields (interviews, web radio, web edition, filming & video editing).

https://www.makery.info/en/2020/09/22/artlabo-retreat-summer-camp-symbiotique-a-lile-de-batz/
PIFcamp, Summer Hacking Camp, Projekt Atol, @Soča, Slovenija

PIFcamp is a 7-day hacker/maker-base set in pristine Alpine nature in close proximity of Soča river, where art, technology and knowledge meet. The camp is an immersion event, where media, video and sound artists, theorists, programmers, engineers and scientists work together on themes like DIY electronics, modular synthesis, wearable electronics, e-textiles, wildfood, citizen science and environmental studies. Around 60 participants of the camp take the leading part in holding workshops, practical field trips, theoretical lectures and on-sight briefings and actively participate in the development of various DIY/DIWO projects, while collaborating together in a creative working environment. In addition, all the projects are thoroughly documented and published online.

https://pif.camp
Summer School, @São Luís, Portugal

Focused on intersection of Art, Biology and the Environment innovative summer course offers unique opportunities to visual artists and non-specialists to acquire theoretical and practical skills in biological and environmental sciences in connection to the visual arts. The Summer School explores the interdisciplinary relationship between art, life and environmental sciences through hands-on exercises, combining theory and practice in an informal environment, e.g.: seminars, debates, visits, and the creation of artworks with biological media.

The program offers an intensive, experimental and shared learning space, in which artists in residence, experts, scientists and attendees can generate transversal knowledge, project prototypes or replicable protocols.

https://cultivamoscultura.com/2023/01/16/summer-school-2023-expanse/
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Summer Camp, LabYard, @Helsingør, Denmark

Summer Camp 2023 overall focuses on questions of organizational sustainability and systemic challenges in the field of visual arts through practical workshops, group discussions, and presentations by stakeholders in the Danish visual arts field.

This year, the camp is organized by Philip Pilekjær. Philip is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and since 2019, he has worked as an editor at the Zurich-based art and culture media PROVENCE Magazine. As an artist, he regularly contributes to exhibitions both domestically and internationally and serves on the board of UKK – the Organization for Artists, Curators, and Art Mediators. During our time together, we will work on a collective project that will serve as an exercise in using algorithms, physical materials, economic structures, and ecosystems as metaphors to envision a collective future. This applies not only to our everyday interactions but also to how we organize ourselves and express our ideas through exhibitions, events, and more.

https://kuto.dk/lobende_events/summercamp/
Field_Notes, @Lapland, Finland

Field_Notes is an art&science field laboratory organized by the Bioart Society at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the Univeristy of Helsinki in Sapmi/Finland. Two groups with 7 members will work for two weeks in the sub-Arctic Lapland to develop, test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches on questions in relation to biology, ecology and life sciences. During two weeks the groups will approach its questions from different angles. They will organize themselves in work groups, teams, think tanks, and workshops. They will carry out their work in their related fields, as well as have common activities of lectures,presentations and feedback sessions. Expected results include abstracts, anecdotes, anecdata, artefacts, collaborations, data, documentation, experience, experiments, future workshops, field notes, friends, drawings, hard and software, ideas, knowledge, photos, presentations, prototypes, recordings, skills, sketches, sounds, projects, photos, videos and more.

The theme of Field_Notes 2023 is The North Escaping and will focus to explore the current and approaching transformations in the North.

https://bioartsociety.fi/
Electric Wonderland, International Maker and Hacker Camp, @Baške Oštarije, Croatia

Electric Wonderland is all about DIY explorers, curiosities and open labs in nature. We will delve into the imaginary realms of co-creation by ‘following the white rabbit’ in order to expand the knowledge transfer of high-tech and low-tech merged together into an interdisciplinary laboratory in nature.

The camp will thematise hybrid forms of expressions with a lot of workshops from DIY music electronic instruments, synths and devices, smart city technology, DIY photography devices, biohacking, design thinking, DIY kitchen lab, movable objects and mobiles, eTextiles, robotics, paper art craft, biomimetics, citizen energy communities, solar energy, renewable energies, climate changes and recycling objects, all in the context of citizen science.

People will have an opportunity to join the workshops and lectures as they wish, bring their own projects for further development, give a free style lecture, wander around the woods and lakes to explore the nature, hanging around the camp, maintain the camping fire in the middle of the camp, partaking guerilla workshops for local citizens of Fužine, enjoying or performing every evening at a concert/jamming in the camp, reading, exercising, hiking or cycling, helping to maintain the camp, visiting the city of Rijeka and local Adriatic coast, hanging with artists-in-residence, just to name a few. Not to mention exploring the local flora and fauna with artists, biologists and tech geeks.

https://www.electric-wonderland.eu/
22.07-28.07.2023 Electric Wonderland 2023 @Kamp Velebit, Baške Oštarije, Lika-Senj County region, Velebit Mountain
Schmiede, Playground of Ideas, @Hallein, Austria

Schmiede is an annual ten-day event for networking, learning, creation and presentation. It facilitates a creative pop-up ecosystem in order to enhance cooperation and motivate fast prototyping with more than 300 participants from over 15 nations and a good gender balance. Schmiede creates a temporary critical mass where there is usually none and forms a semi-public program around it. In any undertaking, Schmiede attempts to inspire, motivate and blur the line between the producer and the consumer, creating an autonomous and inclusive learning experience. The participants come to Hallein and enjoy this temporary collaborative workspace, which is open, fluid and stable at the same time.

Schmiede the playground of ideas for peer2peer learning and prototyping is organised into labs.  Like everything at Schmiede labs are autonomous. To be more precise: Labs are focused Schmiedes within Schmiede with certain process stepping stones.  Yes you could do a lab on spot whenever. However for Schmiede to provide support we need to talk ahead of time, before May. Labs at Schmiede are gathering points and islands of interest within Schmiede, bridging projects, labs and Smiths. A Lab can focus on anything of intereset to you, the lab leaders. Smiths with an understanding or strong focus on the content in question take action to create more. By creating a lab at Schmiede you open the door to bring together peers and support each other and your interest.

more: https://schmiedehallein.com/archives/1206

http://schmiede.ca
closed CALL:
13.09-23.09.2023 Schmiede23: Blood
Feral Residencies
Chronicler in residency, @Nomadic residency 4x

A journalistic take on what a residency could be – nomadic journalists will be covering the project’s events, as well as similar events outside of the partnership!

https://www.makery.info/en/category/feral-labs/
PIFresidency, @osmo/za, Ljubljana 4x

The main goal of 4 one-month (or longer) residencies at osmo/za research & presentation venue in Ljubljana (SI), is to provide insight into the overall process of creating artworks in the field of new media, open source technologies, and DIY, DIWO and DITO practices, developed in connection with PIFcamp or another local creative platform/hub. The residencies will enable the artists to further develop their projects and will require from them to actively engage with possible other collaborators, the local communities, creative collectives and organisations through workshops, artist-talks, informal meetings and lectures. Hosts will provide the necessary means of production and facilitate cooperation with local experts and artists, with the possibility of post-production and future presentations of the artist’s work.

https://www.projekt-atol.si/en/
Catch’s art-tech residency, AIR programe, @Helsingør 1x

Embracing the practice of creating as thinking Catch’s AIR invite international artists/hackers/makers working with technology as their medium to explore and disseminate ideas through an interdisciplinary lens. The international AIR programme provides possibilities for artists to work together with local artists, the city, the citizens, companies and cultural institutions to develop their ideas and projects. Catch is providing an environment, where people can co-create and develop the footing for new transdisciplinary sustainable ideas and visions. Catch believes that everyone has the potential to be both teacher and learner. By encouraging peer-to-peer learning, they offer a platform for the public to come together to share both questions and solutions through hands-on prototyping and cooperative exploration of ideas – Catch’s residents are therefore invited to share their knowledge, findings and questions with our audiences through exhibitions, events and workshops.

https://www.catch.dk/
17.10-22.11.2022 Line Finderup Jensen
Cultivamos Cultura Residencies, @Portugal 8x

With a variable duration (from 3 weeks to 4 months), residents can either work on research and/or production of specific artworks that remain in Cultivamos Cultura or its surrounding area. These artworks will become integrated in the visitor’s itinerary and contribute to the local cultural offer. The residency will take advantage of Cultivamos Culltura infrastructure at Sao Luis, Alentejo, or collaborations with our partners in Lisbon coordinated through Ectopia – Experimental Art Laboratory. The venue itself offers workshops with basic equipment for electronics, and laboratory for biology related work; space for the development of performative work; (4) several exhibition spaces with different characteristics. Residents are encouraged to explore the social and natural environment: the village of Sao Luis, thesurrounding Southwest Alentejo coast natural park, andthe Atlantic coast. In Lisbon, there is an established collaboration with Ectopia – Experimental Art Laboratory that has a tradition in matching artists with research laboratories in the Lisbon area. Resident artists will have access to an art consultant (Marta de Menezes, art director of Cultivamos Cultura) and a scientific consultant (Luis Graca, expert in biomedical research, Professor at the University of Lisbon Medical School).

https://cultivamoscultura.com/category/residencies-2022/
Electric Wonderland AIR, @Zagreb, Croatia 4x

Radiona’s programme of residencies is open to various approaches in exploring the medium of technology-based arts and maker culture. Residents are invited to spend some research time in the lab in Zagreb, to work in collaboration with the local tech-art community, create an actual artefact, which is consequently presented at international exhibitions curated by Radiona, and to run a masterclass workshop in the lab. The main aim of the residency programme is to provide opportunities for an individual to delve into Radiona’s ecosystem and environment, to use its knowledge base and to acquaint the local maker scene with new practices

https://radiona.org/
FeralAIR, International Residency Program at Schmiede Hallein, @Hallein, Austria 4x

The multitude of Schmiede is structured around specialised Labs – they are gathering points and islands of interest within the Schmiede community. By creating a Lab at Schmiede one provides the opportunity for peers to come together, support each other and their interests. The FeralLab at Schmiede would focus on general Feral Labs Network topics and deepen as well as broaden their scope. Examples might be a small project team but can also be a related hub to enhance existing impulses. Labs are led by Lableaders who accepted responsibilities and therefore occupy a position that expands the free role of a Smith – a Schmiede participant. They do not need to solve or work on others’ challenges or projects, but are there to facilitate and direct, honouring the first SchmiedeRule: The autonomy of a Smith must not be undermined!

FeralAIR is an artist focused format which allows artists to not only participate at Schmiede but use its infrastructure during the entire period of September. Artists can enjoy focused work/studio environment as well as the intense DIWO environment of Schmiede. Finally, Schmiede hosts three different AIR programs enabling artist exchange also throughout September. Mentoring is optionally available. The longer durations of the AIRs also offer access to different workbenches around Salzburg, at University, as well as with our partners.

https://fraeuleinflora.pageflow.io/feralair#231200
Field_Notes, International AIR programme, @Kilpisjärvi, Finland 2x

Field_Notes is an art&science field laboratory organized by the Bioart Society at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the Univeristy of Helsinki in Sapmi/Finland. Two groups with 7 members will work for two weeks in the sub-Arctic Lapland to develop, test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches on questions in relation to biology, ecology and life sciences. During two weeks the groups will approach its questions from different angles. They will organize themselves in work groups, teams, think tanks, and workshops. They will carry out their work in their related fields, as well as have common activities of lectures,presentations and feedback sessions. Expected results include abstracts, anecdotes, anecdata, artefacts, collaborations, data, documentation, experience, experiments, future workshops, field notes, friends, drawings, hard and software, ideas, knowledge, photos, presentations, prototypes, recordings, skills, sketches, sounds, projects, photos, videos and more.

The theme of Field_Notes 2023 is The North Escaping and will focus to explore the current and approaching transformations in the North. 

https://bioartsociety.fi/projects/ars-bioarctica/pages/residency
TTT Conference, Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art and Science (TTT2023), @Malta Society of Arts, Valletta 2x

The international conference Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT) is an interdisciplinary and nomadic event, where both practitioners as well as theorists present and discuss the status of art-science and/or art & technology. TTT has been hosted in Greece (2016-2017), Mexico (2018), Austria-Online (2020) and will be soon hosted in Malta (2023). The conference focuses (a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and about the aesthetics of liminality, as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science, and (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art. Topics explored in the TTT Conferences include: Biopunk, hybridity and aesthetics of mutation; Cyborg, augmentation, and bοdy modification; Chemistry of the mind, natural healers, and mind enhancement; Biotechnology, DIY&DIWO, and biohacking; Ethology, human and nonhuman; Evolution, genetics, and plasticity; Post-gender, transgressive identities, and social models; Human sexual response, laws of attraction, and queer eroticism; Parasitology, symbiosis, and microbiome; Biopolitics, displacement, and resistance; Pandemic, bioterror, and scientific trust; Witchcraft, gender narrative, and history of science; Rewilding, degradation and restoration.

https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/
TTTfellows, @Ionian islands 3x

TTTfellows is an hybrid artist residency and academic research fellowship project. It aims to bring together one artist and one scientist during 30 days for interdisciplinary friction and immersion in the Ionian islands. TTTfellows are selected via open call for participation based on their letter of intention and CV. The project is particularly focused on the topic of Art, Ecology & Communities. Participants should be willing to contribute to the development of a local DIY Bio Hub, to teach one module (graduate level students at the IURC) and to create a piece in one of the following categories:  speculative science publication or speculative design project exhibit.

https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt-fellows/2023/en/fellows/
Feral Calls
OPEN CALL : Schmiede23: Blood, @Hallein, Austria Deadline: 31.05.2023

Schmiede23: Blood (September 13. – 23. 2023)
Application: Now till May 31st
Late Application: June 15th till July 5th
Application reply emails are sent: June 15th – late: July 15th (Please check your spam folders)
Application Processing Fee: till July 31st 65€ then 85€ (if accepted)

OPEN CALL : Summer School 2023 | Expanse, @Luis, Portugal Deadline: 01.05.2023

We will explore the expansive and pervasive character of water. Water connects everything, not only serving as a route to transport things between places but more than that it is itself fundamental to life, growth, and transformation through its elemental structure.

OPEN CALL : The North Escaping, @Kilpisjärvi, Lapland / Finland Deadline: 17.03.2023

Field_Notes is an art and science field laboratory organized by the Bioart Society at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in the Sapmi region in Lapland / Finland since 2011. During Field_Notes – The North Escaping, three groups of five will work in the sub-arctic Lapland for two weeks developing, testing and evaluating specific interdisciplinary approaches under the theme of The North Escaping. The groups are hosted by artists Till Bovermann, Elizabeth McTernan and Erich Berger.

The current climate crisis is transforming our world rapidly, with the most rapid transformations seen in the northern latitude. As the climate changes, it not only alters habitats and livelihoods but affects entities in a much deeper way. The North Escaping captures this mental state, which not only includes fear and anticipation of change, but also the loss of a certain world and the birth of a completely new one. Something is slipping away, slowly, and we are not sure what this all means.

Changes in weather, ecosystems, agriculture, human settlements, and cultures are ahead because of the redistribution of water, plants and animals – including people, across natural and artificial borders. We know that the North is already escaping, with the number of snow-cover days decreasing and new species entering the country from the south as the range of native species narrows. It is not an overstatement to say that the way we answer to this change – how we ignore, resist or adapt – will define the future of the existence of the northern cultures and livelihoods.

Feral News
Pinned News ▽ The 2023 map of summer camps in Europe (and beyond) Published 05.05.2023

Where to go this summer? Makery has made a selection of summer camps and schools in Europe, 2023 edition. 20 destinations (until now, more to come), from Portugal to Slovenia, France, Spain, Denmark, and even in far far North. Are you organizing a camp that is not on the map? Let us know! contact us… View Article

Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence (TTT): “Rethinking the Wolf” in Malta Published 18.09.2023

Spotlighting its legendary themes of Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science, the 5th TTT Interdisciplinary Conference takes place from September 27 to 29 at the historical Malta Society of Arts in Valetta, Greece. TTT founder and director Dalila Honorato spoke with Makery before the opening of TTT 2023. Makery: It must be exciting to hold the… View Article

Summer school at Cultivamos Cultura: Taking time to inhabit Portugal’s wild Alentejo Published 13.09.2023

Cultivamos Cultura’s 11th Summer School program was held from July 4 to 22, 2023 in and around the coastal village of São Luís, just north of Portugal’s vast Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina Nature Park. Cultivamos Cultura’s Diana Aires shared some thoughts with Makery on how this year’s Summer School participants explored the area’s rich… View Article

Electric Wonderland 2023, @Kamp Velebit, Baške Oštarije, Lika-Senj County region, Velebit Mountain Published 22.07.2023
Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation Selections Made Published 19.06.2023

We want to thank everyone who applied for the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation! We received over 100 applications and the Rewilding Cultures partner associations have now gone through all of the applications. Each partner association selected their own candidate, which means we were able to issue grants for 8 applicants. ☼

Rewilding Cultures Mobility Selection

Mobility Conversation Selections Published 19.06.2023

In the end, Monique Besten (Schmiede Hallein), Anna Czaban (Ionian University), Shona Robin MacPherson (Projekt Atol), Jean Danton Laffert Parraguez (Radiona), Andrew Paterson (Bioart Society), Priiya Prethora (Culture Yard), Taylor Alaina Liebenstein Smith (ART2M / Makery) and Bartaku (Cultivamos Cultura) were selected to receive a grant for their project.

Exploring science and intimacy through artificial reproduction in Greece Published 31.05.2023

For ten days from May 5-14, 2023, twelve artists came together for the inaugural TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp in Corfu, Greece to explore assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Makery reports on this multifaceted collision of practices, approaches and sensibilities to dissect the intimate and political topic of artificial reproduction. On the 5th of June, the article has been… View Article

Summer camps are starting! Published 04.05.2023
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07.10-11.10.2023
LabYard: AI in Art and Cultural Production@Helsingør
The Culture Yard
Summer Camp
FeralLab
27.09-29.09.2023
International conference TTT2023 Malta@Malta Society of Arts in Valletta

The fifth international conference Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art and Science (TTT2023) is slated to take place at the Malta Society of Arts in Valletta from September 27–29, 2023.

Including theoretical and art practice presentations, TTT2023 will continue its focus on questions about the nature of the forbidden and the aesthetics of liminality as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science.

The conference also aims to provide an uncensored space for creative transformation in the merging of science and art.

Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence, created by Dr Dalila Honorato, is based on the support of a large informal network of international researchers and practitioners that develop their activities at the edge of art and science intersections.

TTT Conference
FeralCall
27.09-29.09.2023
Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science@ Malta Society of Arts, Valletta
IONIAN UNIVERSITY
TTT Conference
TTTLab
TTTConference
18.09.2023
Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence (TTT): “Rethinking the Wolf” in Malta

Spotlighting its legendary themes of Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science, the 5th TTT Interdisciplinary Conference takes place from September 27 to 29 at the historical Malta Society of Arts in Valetta, Greece. TTT founder and director Dalila Honorato spoke with Makery before the opening of TTT 2023. Makery: It must be exciting to hold the… View Article

IONIAN UNIVERSITY
TTT Conference
TTTLab
TTTConference
17.09-01.10.2023
The North Escaping@Kilpisjärvi, Lapland, Finland
Bioart Society
Field_Notes
FeralLab
17.09-01.10.2023
The North Escaping@Kilpisjärvi, Lapland / Finland

Field_Notes is an art and science field laboratory organized by the Bioart Society at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in the Sapmi region in Lapland / Finland since 2011. During Field_Notes – The North Escaping, three groups of five will work in the sub-arctic Lapland for two weeks developing, testing and evaluating specific interdisciplinary approaches under the theme of The North Escaping. The groups are hosted by artists Till Bovermann, Elizabeth McTernan and Erich Berger.

The current climate crisis is transforming our world rapidly, with the most rapid transformations seen in the northern latitude. As the climate changes, it not only alters habitats and livelihoods but affects entities in a much deeper way. The North Escaping captures this mental state, which not only includes fear and anticipation of change, but also the loss of a certain world and the birth of a completely new one. Something is slipping away, slowly, and we are not sure what this all means.

Changes in weather, ecosystems, agriculture, human settlements, and cultures are ahead because of the redistribution of water, plants and animals – including people, across natural and artificial borders. We know that the North is already escaping, with the number of snow-cover days decreasing and new species entering the country from the south as the range of native species narrows. It is not an overstatement to say that the way we answer to this change – how we ignore, resist or adapt – will define the future of the existence of the northern cultures and livelihoods.

Bioart Society
Field_Notes
FeralCall
13.09-23.09.2023
Schmiede23: Blood
SCHMIEDE HALLEIN
Schmiede
FeralLab
13.09.2023
Summer school at Cultivamos Cultura: Taking time to inhabit Portugal’s wild Alentejo

Cultivamos Cultura’s 11th Summer School program was held from July 4 to 22, 2023 in and around the coastal village of São Luís, just north of Portugal’s vast Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina Nature Park. Cultivamos Cultura’s Diana Aires shared some thoughts with Makery on how this year’s Summer School participants explored the area’s rich… View Article

Cultivamos Cultura
Summer School
Other
21.08.2023
PIFcamp : drawing report from the favorite Slovenian Summer Camp

It’s the beginning of August. All Europe is taken by vacation. All? No! The small village of Soča, in Slovenia, is taken by hackers, makers, artists and other techno-explorers. They only fear one thing: that the sky falls upon their heads. It nearly did. During the week at PIFcamp, the rest of Slovenia was flooding… View Article

Projekt Atol Institute
PIFcamp
FeralLab
03.08.2023
Photo report: Electric Wonderland, building a geodesic dome in the Croation mountains

At the fifth Electric Wonderland Summer Camp in the Croatian mountains, participants were invited to build a geodesic dome. Photo report.  On July 22-28, the Croatian makerspace Radiona hosted Electric Wonderland 2023, 5th international hacker/maker & artists-in-residence camp in the Velebit mountains. Electric Wonderland is combining art, technology, culture and science with DIY, DIWO (do-it-with-others)… View Article

Radiona
Electric Wonderland
Exhibition
About

The Rewilding Cultures (RC) project wants to reposition the wild after COVID and focus on inclusivity and ecology within the art, science and technology area. A new gaze at this sector is needed and the stop in everything caused by COVID, provides us with an uncomfortable, but much needed time for reflection on potential change. We cannot go back to business as usual, especially in terms of polluting and important inclusion issues unaddressed. We need to rewild on terms fit for the present and future.

Within the last 10 years we have witnessed a large growth of various Creative Hubs; Maker-, Bio-, Art-, Coworking- Labs and -Spaces. They come in many shapes and sizes and operate as initiatives that give participants a social space equipped with technological opportunities, a space where everyone is encouraged to experiment, explore, create and share. The importance of the social and the communal aspect is one of the most important aspects of these Creative Hubs; they are not only places of rapid prototyping and caters to artists’ and makers’ needs, they are so much more than the fabrication machines and tools and their operators. They are places of rich social life and homes of diverse communities. Creative Hubs are now indispensable facilitators of Open and Citizen science and localization of production, New business model, testers and developers of Future technologies, as well as places of new and innovative uses of old technologies. They are places of reinvention and innovation in educational, life-long-learning processes.

Background

FERAL LABS
The project builds on the legacy of the Feral Labs Network (FLN), a Small-scale Creative Europe project (with most activities in summers of 2019 and 2020), which connected organizers of Temporary Creative Hubs that vary in scope, format and topics, but hold a common methodological framework.
These Feral Labs, as we have dubbed them, form the first content pillar of our project. They are events of transdisciplinary nature which discern no clash in focusing on production of cultural artefacts and philosophy, hacking and tinkering with technology, sensing environmental data, creating educational content and addressing resilience by investigating environmental and technological challenges, all within the same event framework. By bringing together the worlds of art, humanities and social studies, education, digital activism, natural sciences and technology, participants inevitably learn about each other’s methods and processes, and benefit from each other’s know-how (tacit knowledge), know-why (the scientific explanation) and know-who (communication with & to). They can tap into the knowledge they usually could not access and discover new ways of approaching and defining social, political, natural and technological questions.
Feral Labs rely on and subscribe to the ethos of open and free software and hardware as harboured by the Free and Open Source movements. Furthermore, the participants of Feral Labs are oftentimes themselves avid champions of these ideals. However, our events are designed not just to propagate the use, the extraction of these principles, but also to encourage participants to publish their code, designs and documentation.

Environmental sustainability, Inclusivity & accessibility Environmental sustainability, Inclusivity & accessibility
Partners

IONIAN UNIVERSITY (IURC)

The Ionian University, founded in 1984, has seven departments spread in the urban complex of Corfu and, since 2018, five departments in the islands Lefkada, Kefalonia and Zakynthos. The Ionian University, despite its quantitative dimension but also thanks to its qualitative elasticity in adaptability and fast flow of experimental ideas, has traditionally been in Greece the initiator of less represented fields of knowledge. The Ionian University joined the Feral Labs Network in 2021 and is the coordinator partner of Feral Knowledge within Rewilding Cultures.

The members of the Interactive Arts Lab of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University are the force behind the coordination of the activities proposed in this program TTT Conference, TTT Labs and TTT Fellows and the edition of two books TTT2023 Proceedings and Feral NodeBook #3.

https://inarts.eu/

Bioart Society

Bioart Society is a Helsinki-based association developing, producing and facilitating activities around art and natural sciences with an emphasis on biology, ecology and life sciences. It is a leading organization in art & science and experimental arts. Since 2008 it developed into one of the principal organisations in Europe setting the tone on an international level for activities related to art engaging with biology, ecology and life sciences. The Bioart Society has about 130 members, artists and scientists, from Finland and international. Since 2008 it worked actively with several hundreds of Finnish and international artists and practitioners as well as with many organizations and institutions in a diverse program of exhibitions, seminars, workshops and laboratories. It runs SOLU Space, an artistic laboratory and platform for art, science and society, and together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki – Ars Bioarctica, an art & science program with focus on the sub-arctic environment.

https://bioartsociety.fi

The Culture Yard (Kulturværftet)

is located by the harbor in Elsinore and, together with Denmark’s Maritime Museum and Kronborg Castle, forms the Kulturhavn Kronborg area. The Culture Yard is North Zealand’s largest cultural center and, organized together with the city’s older culture house Toldkammeret, provides stages and space for a large number of local, national and international cultural events all year round. The two houses together delivers a broad and diverse cultural program with both tradition and unexpected artistic experiences. Visitors can find concerts, lectures, debates, films, theatre, social dining, family events and civic activities.

In the same spirit, we continue parts of the work that Catch, Center for Art, Technology and Design in Elsinore, has begun and built up over the years. Within The Culture Yard cultural programming, Catch has functioned as a municipal center for creative education and innovation, operating at the intersection of art, technology and design. Catch has had a practice-based and open door approach to learning, offering year-round workshops, institutional and independent collaboration resulting in public exhibitions, in close integration with CLICK.

https://www.kuto.dk

Cultivamos Cultura

Cultivamos Cultura is a platform for experimentation and development of shared knowledge in the theory and practice of science, technology and contemporary art. In other words, Cultivamos Cultura provides conditions to foster your creativity, organizes activities in the areas of production, dissemination, research, education and exhibition. It is also part of our mission to contribute a strong sense of cultural identity by fostering the generation of bonds with the local community and environment. We are located in an old farm house at the village of São Luís, within the Southwest Alentejo Natural Park, on the Atlantic coast of Portugal, approximately 200 Km south of Lisbon. Cultivamos Cultura hosts resident creators for periods up to 4 months. During the residency, creators are encouraged to engage in activities with local communities, including schools. It is expected that a record of the activities pursued during the residency will remain in our archives.Cultivamos Cultura curates and produces art exhibitions related to new media and experimental art practices. The objective of these exhibitions is to show the diversity of strategies within contemporary art creation, as well as the outcome of art residencies.

https://cultivamoscultura.com

ART2M / Makery Art2M, Digital Art International

Art2M (Art To Machine) is an innovative company and a think & do tank exploring and supporting creative communities in the relations between art, design, education, technologies and science. ART2M produces art works, publications and events (workshops, residencies, conferences, exhibitions, festivals) and directs its activities according to different research&action cooperation projects, the ART2M labs: media lab (Makery, MCD), make lab (with RFFlabs, Fab City Grand Paris, MakersXchange), care lab (Open Source Body, ART4MED, with Echopen foundation), planet lab (with More-Than-Planet, Aerocene France), feral lab (with Rewilding Cultures), money lab (From Commons to NFTs), bio lab (with Roscosmoe.org). Art2M is directed by Anne-Cécile Worms.

Makery is the medialab of ART2M and an online & bilingual information media (English-French, newsletter, website, social networks). It aims to cover the dynamism and give out information on the creative communities and the scene of labs, fablabs (fabrication laboratories), makerspaces (for community tinkering), hackerspaces (spaces self-managed by people wanting to divert technologies), medialabs (dedicated to new media experimentation), living labs (also known as third places, they encompass users-industries co-design in processes of innovation and experimentation), biohacklabs (the scientific, DIYbio and bioinformatics version of hacklabs), foodlabs (for community cathering and exploring future of food), artlabs (dedicated to artistic production).

https://www.makery.info/en

Projekt Atol Institute

based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, has amassed extensive and long-standing experience in fieldwork-based artistic research all around the world in its 25 year history. It manages one of the first and signature art+science field-based nomadic laboratories, the Makrolab. These experiences helped shape ZPA’s ongoing engagements in the Arctic Perspective Initiative, within which the institute aims to empower the North and Arctic people through open source technologies, as well as applied education and training since 2007. By creating access to these technologies while promoting an open, shared network of communications and data, without a costly overhead, they can advance the sustainable and continued development of culture, traditional knowledge, science, technology, and education opportunities for peoples of the North and of the Global South at the same time. ZPA is also an initiator of similar activities in Slovenia, namely the Unmanned-Resilience project held on the Gora Plateau and the yearly PIFcamp, held in the Triglav National Park.

https://www.projekt-atol.si/en/

Radiona Makerspace – Association for Development of do-it-yourself Culture

is a non-profit organisation and citizen lab consisting of makerspace/hackerspace, media art lab, Repair Café and residence program founded in 2011. The organisation is dealing with DIY (do-it-yourself), DIWO (do-it-with-others) and DITO (do-it-together) cultures, STEAM concepts, interdisciplinary and intergenerational non-formal education and hybrid activities. The lab is developing innovative projects with an emphasis on community building, participation, cohesion and social inclusion, knowledge transfer and co-creation. It is also active in the areas of GLAM, CCI in the international and local context, policy making on municipal and international level. It focuses its activities on education, innovation, research processes, art production, curatorial practices, residencies, international and domestic inter-sector collaborations, self-sustainable systems, repair community activities, citizen science and social awareness related activities.

http://radiona.org/

SCHMIEDE HALLEIN Verein zur Förderung der digitalen Kultur

Schmiede is a cooperative prototyping festival between the arts, maker and digital media, a playground where our ideas come to play. The objective is to learn from the process, each other, build trust and find collaborators for the current or future projects. Schmiede does not teach. Schmiede provides inspiration and possibilities. Schmiede empowers this process by bringing together the essentials: space, people, infrastructure, food and freedom to explore. Schmiede is open to everyone interested.

Since 2003, Schmiede is the world Smiths (participants of Schmiede) create in late September, on an island in the Alps. Once a year, around 200 people from about 15 nations, peers, artists, experts, and students in their professions and spheres of interest come together in an old salt refinery in the city of Hallein. For ten days they experiment, network and present, to an audience but first of all to peers for feedback.

Schmiede in 5:20 by Judith Holzer: vimeo.com/64489715

http://schmiede.ca/