AKI BIO MATTERs

AKI BIO MATTERs AKI BIO MATTERs is part of an artistic research program at AKI Academy of Art and Design, University of the Arts ArtEZ, The Netherlands.

This lab based research program focuses on art and science relations and practices of living matter manipulations in a manner that hands-on practice is never separated from instant processes of thinking. Students are to experience and discuss what is actually happening in the labs within wider Do IT Yourself biology, bioart and biodesign scene and what are the ethical, political and cultural chall

enges of living matter manipulations. In other words, rather than representing the reality, students of BIO MATTERs will invent a reality. The aim of AKI BIO MATTERs is to create spaces of thinking while doing, and doing while thinking with the living matters. The use of living matter in art is nothing new. Artists have been working with living bodies already since the beginning of the last century. However, art’s experimentation with life and living matter has gained a new significance and unexpected roles. Known as bioartists and biodesigners, artists have been entering bioscientific institutions and laboratories in order to collaborate with scientists and learn to use their tools and protocols in the artistic practice. The unique non-goal/profit oriented attitude toward experimentation, questioning and invention makes artist to gain a new role. Bioartists became a biophilosophers, bioeducators, bioactivists and biostorytellers of the new brave world where biology, technology and philosophy are not separate from each other. However, with the new medium and possibilities, the old worries came. If art creates life, is it also responsible for it? If bioart is not a simple representation of scientific findings, but an actual generation of realities, what becomes the role of art? These questions concern thus not only the status of art with regard to science and philosophy but also methods, tools and implications of art’s present and future practices with living matter. AKI BIO MATTERs is to exercise within lectures, workshops and hands-on engagement the capacities and agencies of art working with living matters. Lecturer and coordinator: Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko
More information: [email protected]

"Intimate connections with the microbial world" - full of wonder workshop by amazing Maro Pebo and Roland van Dierendonc...
20/10/2023

"Intimate connections with the microbial world" - full of wonder workshop by amazing Maro Pebo and Roland van Dierendonck for our AKI BIO MATTERs at AKI Academy of Art & Design

📣25.05 - 1.06.2023 at AKI Academy of Art & Design Exhibition on "Matters of Life and Death" by our wonderful biomatters...
25/05/2023

📣25.05 - 1.06.2023 at AKI Academy of Art & Design Exhibition on "Matters of Life and Death" by our wonderful biomatters students: Laith Al Rahmani, Laila Chaoui, Loukia Chatzopoulou, Ana Garcia de Alba, Roos Van der Hoek, Nora Idink, Persijn Oesterholt, Sophia Varekamp, Ronja Veldhuis, Annalisa Volcan, Mira ten Wolde!!!💚

Poetic lecture and two days magical workshop on plant-animal dyes and pigment extraction by a wonderful Helena Sanders f...
31/03/2023

Poetic lecture and two days magical workshop on plant-animal dyes and pigment extraction by a wonderful Helena Sanders for AKI BIO MATTERs. Supported by ArtEZ studium generale with special thanks to Rana Ghavami!

On the 1st of April, amazing Špela Petrič and Adriana Knouf visited AKI BIO MATTERs to give a workshop on measurements....
12/04/2021

On the 1st of April, amazing Špela Petrič and Adriana Knouf
visited AKI BIO MATTERs to give a workshop on measurements. Who would have thought that such a mundane topic might open up so many layers of problems and discussions, so many cracks for speculations. Enchanted by their fabulations, students re-imagined the tools for differing practices of bodies, weaving new fables. Thank you Spela and Adriana for your reenchanting contaminations🐛💜

12/04/2021
Results of our AKI BIO MATTERs artistic research program!🦠🔬🧬⚗️In the time of corona crisis, the questions of the Anthrop...
07/12/2020

Results of our AKI BIO MATTERs artistic research program!
🦠🔬🧬⚗️
In the time of corona crisis, the questions of the Anthropocene seem to be obsolete. In the age of viral contamination, we seem to justify the excessive use of plastics and chemicals because our human life is in a direct danger. However, rather than finding new practices, the trend is to keep the lives and business as usual. The urgent question we need to face is how to create in the time of ecological disasters? What is the role of art and design when we challenge the anthropocentrism? Can art be autonomous and irrelevant in the time of many crises? And most importantly, how to create with the mess and trouble rather than ignoring it?

Below some documentation of students working in the AKI biolab during our artistic research program Living Images. In the 1st semester we have researched questions of vision and visuality - investigation through e.g. microscope images; DIY non-lens photography; alchemist approach in print making and toxic vision of bioplastic.

Special thanks to Spela Petric and Adriana Knouf for their inspiring artist talk and sharing their experiences!💜

👁On the 17.12 there will be an exhibition of the students work. Stay tuned for its documentation!
🍄For all interested to join us next semester, registration will start at the beginning of January 2021. For more information contact Agnieszka Wolodzko [email protected]

🎉Online Now! https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/nl/studies/all/blog/living+matters+non+exhibition/Living Matters non-exhib...
24/06/2020

🎉Online Now! https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/nl/studies/all/blog/living+matters+non+exhibition/

Living Matters non-exhibition
storytelling by AKI BIO MATTERs research on the precarity that has always been now
by amazing students:
Anivia Beylard, Celile Demir, Dawoon Kim, Eric Bari, Garrett Szmyd, Rojin Tavassoli, Suzan Stemerdink, Talitha Fruneaux

Thank you ArtEZ studium generale for hosting it with special thanks to Rhana Ghavami

💚New Semester +💚 New Experiments +💚 AKI BIOMATTERs New Lab!🤩
27/02/2020

💚New Semester +💚 New Experiments +💚 AKI BIOMATTERs New Lab!🤩

Opening of the exhibition 👁Matters of Vision👁12.12.-19.12AKI The exhibition, made by the students of AKI BIO MATTERs art...
13/12/2019

Opening of the exhibition 👁Matters of Vision👁
12.12.-19.12
AKI

The exhibition, made by the students of AKI BIO MATTERs artistic research program Living Images, asks what the role of art and design is in challenging anthropocentrism. Can we live and create with collapses of ecologies and climate breakdown, rather than simply ignoring it for the sake of art’s investment in autonomy and unbounded creativity? Through their experiments with the porosity and dynamics of vision and methods of visuality, students put forth an alchemistic approach towards making processes. Matters of Vision is about how making something visible or invisible is an ethical and ecological act.

Students: Anivia Beylard, Celile Demir, Eric Bari, Andrej Ioan Oiegas, Isabella Madarasz, Jiska Bouwman, Jurel Bakker, Laura Scheffer, Melissa Cijntje, Rebecca Stringer, Stijn Timmermans

📷nonhuman gaze captured by Aalt van de Glind

Living Images - Minor AKI BIO MATTERs artistic research program is led by Dr. Agnieszka Anna Wolodzko, Patrick Mangnus and Aalt van de Glind
in collaboration with ArtEZ studium generale: https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/…/how+on+earth+presents+m…/
How on Earth presents: Matters of Vision

📣This week! 12.12 at 16.00h in the AKIOpening of the exhibition 👁Matters of Vision👁+ movie screening (at 17.00h)The exhi...
09/12/2019

📣This week! 12.12 at 16.00h in the AKI
Opening of the exhibition 👁Matters of Vision👁
+ movie screening (at 17.00h)

The exhibition, made by the students of AKI BIO MATTERs artistic research program Living Images, asks what the role of art and design is in challenging anthropocentrism. Can we live and create with collapses of ecologies and climate breakdown, rather than simply ignoring it for the sake of art’s investment in autonomy and unbounded creativity? Through their experiments with the porosity and dynamics of vision and methods of visuality, students put forth an alchemistic approach towards making processes. Matters of Vision is about how making something visible or invisible is an ethical and ecological act.

Students: Anivia Beylard, Celile Demir, Eric Bari, Andrej Ioan Oiegas, Isabella Madarasz, Jiska Bouwman, Jurel Bakker, Laura Scheffer, Melissa Cijntje, Rebecca Stringer, Stijn Timmermans

🎥Movie screening
Afterwards at 17.00h we will be screening Mood Keep by the Portuguese artist Alice dos Reis, who will be joining us for a talk. Mood Keep is a fictional documentary, tracing the collective decision of axolotls to develop eyelids as part of their biology. Born almost blind and only capable of discerning shadows of light, the permanent tungsten brightness in their tanks is unpleasant and disturbing to their thoughts, as well as communication abilities. By shutting their eyes indefinitely, they reclaim the agency of their bodies and encourage empathic communication.

Living Images - Minor AKI BIO MATTERs artistic research program is led by Dr. Agnieszka Anna Wolodzko, Patrick Mangnus and Aalt van de Glind.
in collaboration with ArtEZ studium generale: https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/nl/agenda/how+on+earth+presents+matters+of+vision/
How on Earth presents: Matters of Vision

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