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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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!

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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

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

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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

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.

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