14:00 @ Piksel Studio 207
Colectivo Electrobiota
The BIO-TRANSMISSIONS workshop proposes an active and participative experience. By the experimentation with electronics and biology it is sought to explore different forms of interspecies communication and relationship with nature.
As a laboratory of production will review an introduction to biointeractivity and electronics to build our own biosensor that will allow us to make latent the potential voices of the different forms of life that inhabit the rhizosphere.
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Colectivo Electrobiota
https://colectivoelectrobiota.wordpress.com/Master in Technology and Aesthetics of electronic arts, National University of Tres de Febrero.
Colectivo Electrobiota was born in 2014 as a transdisciplinary group by the mexican multimedia artists Gabriela Munguía and Guadalupe Chávez based on Buenos Aires, Argentina. From multiple approaches and aesthetics of electronic arts, robotics, bioart, deep ecology, and DIY technologies, the collective explore and experiment new and possible interspecies dialogues. They have developed an educational program that include a series of workshops for children and adults with an emphasis on the crossing of art, DIY technologies and nature. The group has participated in various exhibitions and festivals and received different awards: Honored Mention at 3rd Biennial Kosice Latin American Edition, Borges Cultural Center, Ar; Electronic November Festival, San Martin Cultural Center, Ar; FASE: Poetic and political technologies, International meeting of art, science and technology, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Ar; “Horizons of Desire”, Museum of Mar del Plata, Ar; Finalist in the International Contest of Electronic Arts and Video of Festival Transitios MX_06, Mx; 1st Place in the Second Prize to the Electronic Arts of the UNTREF, Ar; and Festival Transpiksel MX Art, science and free technology, Faculty of Art and Design of UNAM, Mx.