VIRAL
CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo A
Network for Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
Since
spring 2020 Art Laboratory Berlin and BioClub
Tokyo have been arranging online meetings between hybrid artists
and associates in our respective cities and beyond. These meetings
are a forum for exchange of research, practice and solidarity in
times of crises.
Meeting #13 | 9 February 2021, 1 pm CET/ 9 pm JST
Presentations by Hideo Iwasaki and Matthias Rillig
Hideo Iwasaki is a biologist and artist, director of metaPhorest
(biological art/ bioaesthetics platform), Professor, Department
of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo.
Matthias Rillig is Professor at the Institute of Biology, Ecology
of Plants, FU Berlin. They will speak about their ongoing project
as well as artists in lab, and artist/scientist collaborations.
(Video
forthcoming)
These events are part of the Vorspiel Programme of the CTM and
transmediale 2021.
Meeting #9 | 25 November 2020
Presentation by Walter Waldman
Walter Waldman, a chemist who during 2020 was a Humboldt Foundation
fellow and visiting researcher at the Rillig Group (Ecology of Plants)
Institute of Biology, Free University Berlin, presented his research
on microplastics and ideas for cooperation and research across disciplines.
List of Meetings
Meeting #1 | 4 April 2020
Presentations by Aiko Kanabe, Henry Tan
Meeting #2 | 9 April 2020
Presentation by Fara Peluso
Meeting #3 | 19 April 2020
Presentations by Alberta Leung, Alessandro Volpato
Meeting #4 | 29 April 2020
Presentations by Ai Hasegawa, IR Komine & Oyama Ryu, Shiho Hasegawa
Meeting #5 | 10 May 2020
Presentations by Pei Ying Lin, Yi Fei Chen
Meeting #6 | 20 May 2020
Presentations by Jo Kazuhiro, Nobuhiro Masuda, Juppo Yokokawa, Kyushi
BioFood Lab
Meeting #7 | 25 October 2020
Presentations by Lyndsey Walsh, Georg Tremmel
Meeting #8 | 12 November 2020
Presentations by Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz, Hideo Iwasaki
Meeting #9 | 25 November 2020
Presentation by Walter Waldman
Meeting #10 | 8 December 2020
Presentation by Yukiko Shikata
Meeting
#11 | 22 December 2020
Presentation by Heather Barnett
Meeting #12 | 17 January 2021
Presentations by Fara Peluso and Sachiko Hirosue (Video
forthcoming)
... and more meetings to come in the next months
With
the generous support of the Senate Office for Culture and Europe:
