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Arrival and Orientation
Arriving in a 10Mio+metropolis after a long flight is always a challenge. Japan luckily, is welcoming in the way that it is organised, clean, safe...
Christina Stadlbauer to commence her Tokyo residency
Christina Stadlbauer who was selected for the Tokyo Art and Science Research Residency will commence her one month research residency on Sunday Oct...
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Elizabeth McTernan - exhibition and project from Ars Bioarctica Residency
Bioart Society is delighted to share the research of Elizabeth McTernan, an artist-in-residence at Ars Bioarctica Residency in 2017 who presented...
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Site-Specific Listening:Tarot of Lapland
I arrived to the residency with absolutely no idea on what to do during the two weeks. My baggage was lost by the airline and I had very limited...
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Popu Popu: Power to the Populations
Adam Zaretsky, Helen Chandler, Blu Zaretsky, Kira deCoudres, Hege Tapio and Marita Isobel Solberg July 2-20, 2018 Popu popu collective brings...
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Arizona State University BioArt Course: from the Sonoran Desert to the Arctic
The science and art students from Arizona State University had a wonderful and productive visit to Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in June. The...
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Open Call for Field_Notes - Ecology of Senses
Field_Notes – Ecology of Senses is an art&science field laboratory organized by the Bioart Society at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in...
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In Between, in Kilpisjärvi
In Between, in Kilpisjärvi In flamenco, the dancer is torn between the sky and the ground: the earth pulls you down and you stomp and struggle...
ARS Bioarctica

The Bioart Society is the motor behind Ars Bioarctica which is a long term art&science initiative with a focus on the Arctic environment which was started in autumn 2008 in Kilpisjärvi. The activities of Ars Bioarctica encompass the development and implementation of courses, workshops, lectures, conferences and seminars, exhibitions, an artists in residency programme, the establishment of national and international relations as well as the production of works, promotion of Finnish artists and publishing of related material.

Featured Projects
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Field_Notes
2018
Field_Notes is an art&science field laboratory at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five groups work for one week in the sub-Arctic Lapland to develop, test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches in relation to the notion of Ecology of Senses.
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SPLICE
2017
The SPLICE exhibition focuses its gaze on our relationship with nature, including diverse approaches towards the transforming environment. Canadian curator Nina Czegledy and the Finnish Bioart Society compile a review of relevant ideas approaching from a cross-disciplinary viewpoint.
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HYBRID_MATTERs
2015 - 2016
A Nordic art&science network program which investigates hybrid ecologies, the convergence of our environment with technology and essentially the intentional and unintentional transformation of our planet through human activity.
Activities
Encounters Across Art and Science DRAFT
Encounters Across Art and Science is the frst in a series of investigative events with and for artists, scientists, thinkers, doers and the general...
21 May, 2018 | Tiedekulma
Book launch “Kira O’Reilly: Untitled (Bodies)” DRAFT
Kira O’Reilly: Untitled (Bodies) edited by HarrietCurtis & Martin Hargreaves brings together newly commissioned and other writings by major...
21 May, 2018 | Tiedekulma
Merry CRISPR workshop with Marta de Menezes and others DRAFT
CRISPR is a novel gene editing systems which allows the permanent modifcation of the genes in cells of living organisms. The workshop activities...
21 May, 2018 | Bioflia Aalto Univeristy
Artist presentation Marta de Menezes DRAFT
Marta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist (b. Lisbon, 1975) with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon, and a MSt in History of Art and...
21 May, 2018 | House of Science and Letters
Book presentation “Britt Wray: Rise of the Necrofauna” DRAFT
In Rise of the Necrofauna, Britt Wray takes us deep into the minds and labs of some of the world’s most progressive thinkers to fnd out. After an...
21 May, 2018 | Galleria FORUM BOX
State price for Interdisciplinary art DRAFT
The Bioartsociety was awarded the state prize for multidisciplinary art by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland. We want to warmly thank all of our...
21 May, 2018 | TAIKE / Smolna
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“Be-Wildermend (Nature Drag)” performance by Kira O’Reilly DRAFT
Opening performance by Kira O’Reilly. Rather than indulge in questionable polarities of artifce and nature, this work seeks to perform a version of...
18 May, 2018 | Oulu Museum of Art
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Ars Bioarctica Field Report #1 with Soichiro Mihara
Ars Bioarctica Field Report #1 with Soichiro Mihara Ars Bioarctica resident Soichiro Mihara (JP) gave a talk about his residency at the Kilpisjärvi...
17 October, 2017 | Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, AV-Arkki office
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Yeastogram workshop with Johanna Rotko DRAFT
Yeastogram workshop with Johanna Rotko
Oulu Museum of Art 17 participants The yeastogram workshop explores with participants how to make living...
11 — 15 Sep 2017 | Oulu Museum of Art
Growing Cellulose workshop with Margherita Pevere DRAFT
Growing Cellulose workshop with Margherita Pevere The workshop focuses on the aesthetic potential of microbial cellulose (MB) and the philosophical...
11 — 18 Sep 2017 | Pixelache Office, Helsinki
Copper Kimchi workshop with Andrew Paterson DRAFT
Copper Kimchi workshop with Andrew Paterson The workshop brought together typically unrelated biological, metal-mineral and nature-cultural...
29 — 31 Aug 2017 | Temporary, Helsinki
Launch of Nordic Bioart network and network meeting #1 DRAFT
Launch of Nordic Bioart network and network meeting #1 The Bioartsociety joins the new DIYBio network which is emerging in the Nordic and Baltic...
29 — 31 Aug 2017 | Temporary, Helsinki
About
The Bioart Society

The Bioartsociety is an association based in Helsinki with more than 80 members from Finland and other countries. It was established in May 2008 at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland. The Bioartsociety is developing, producing and facilitating activities around art and natural sciences, with an emphasis on biology, ecology and life sciences. Together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki it runs Ars Bioarctica, an art&science program with focus on the sub-arctic environment.

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Suomen Biotaiteen Seura ry / Finnish Bioart Society
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FI-00540 Helsinki

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