Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Print Screen Festival
The Israeli Center for Digital Art is collaborating with Holon Cinematheque in Print Screen Festival, Israel's International Digital Arts and Culture Festival.
On Thursday June 22 and Saturday June 24, we will offer 4 various bio-art and bio-design workshops that revolve around technology, biology, zoology and ecology.
The festival draws together artists, technologists and digital culture researchers for four days of programming. Print Screen includes a wide variety of films, contextual programming, interactive presentations, master classes with international artists, workshops, lectures and panel discussions. Print Screen 2017 will focus on the connection between biology, art and digital technology under the title: "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral".
All workshops have limited capacity. Pre-registration is required.
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Mycomorph
Thursday | 22.6 | 09:30 - 13:30
Viktorija Siaulyte and Paulius Vaitiekūnas
Zooetics: Mycomorph Laboratory
"Mycomorph" could be considered as a material searching for its own components. It comes into being when mycelium, the rhizome-like underlying network structure of what we know as mushrooms, colonizes other organic materials such as wood or straw. A mycomorph could also be an element of the fiction of J. G. Ballard, "psychotropic house" - an everchanging, adaptable and neurosensitive architectural structure. During the workshop, the participants will explore together the biotechnological fictions and create a mycomorph of their own, using live mycelium.
Mycomorph Laboratory has been conceived as part of the exhibitions Psychotropic House: Zooetics Pavilion of Ballardian Technologies, organised by artists Gediminas & Nomeda Urbonas. It is part of Zooetics, a cross-disciplinary exploration of future environmental fictions and models. ‘Zooetics’ is a word in progress to explore new ways of engaging human knowledge and research with other forms of life and to imagine designs, prototypes and interfaces for future interspecies ecologies. www.zooetics.net
Bio Synthetic Ecosystems
Thursday | 22.6 | 14:00 - 18:00
Daniel Metcalfe, Noam Attias
The workshop is an art and science exploration of Intensely Manufactured Novel Ecosystems and their role within urban landscapes. In it, we will use a combination of living and refuse building materials; seeds, plant matter, earth, discarded fabric, wood and coffee, bounded by fungi mycelium to create a living structure capable of supporting a diversity of life forms.
Through this investigation, we will explore a practice of co-fabricating with nature, where human intention influences only partly the outcome, and where the emerging system performs a mixture of human and ecological functions to a point where borders are no longer distinguishable (or necessary).
Alchemical Circuits
Saturday | 24.6 | 11:00 - 17:00
Yair Reshef and Denisa Kera
In this workshop led by Denisa Kera and Yair Reshef the participants will connect alchemist iconography with present, DIY and artisan techniques of printed circuit boards (PCB) and similar experiments in “Kludge design”. We will explore the rich aesthetic, cosmological, but also erotic and political references hidden in the old illuminations and translate them into present circuit schematics, superimpose one upon the other and play with electronic and occult symbols, components, old & new etching techniques. Through this we will explore the relations between the various scales, from the atoms and minerals to humans.
PSX Consultancy: Designing Sex Toys for Plants
Saturday | 24.6 | 12:00 - 17:00
Pei-Ying Lin and Špela Petrič
During the one-day design sprint the participants will be infused with the ABC’s of plant reproduction, based on which (with the help of mentors, of course) they will analyse their very own plant-client’s sexual trauma -- and envision a kinky, technology infused augmentation that helps them overcome it. The workshop will offer a novel experience of appropriated design methodologies, adding to the scope of what design can do. The original augmentations conceived by the participants will manifest themselves as sketches, narratives and simple prototypes.
Sounds bizarre? The explicitly sexual milieu is an excuse to delve into the bigger underlying context of meaning, benefits, and pitfalls of post-anthropocentrism in the 21st century, where we find ourselves at odds with nature
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