photo: Paavo Junttila

THE FINNISH BIOART SOCIETY:

(established May 2008) is an organisation supporting, producing and creating activities around bioart, and creating public discussions about biosciences, biotechnologies and bioethics. Additionally it is the finnish contact-node in international networks of bioarts.

The society is also the motor behind the plan (Ars Bioarctica) that aims at introducing bioart as an own area to educational institutions.

Current board 2010: Marjukka Korhonen (Chair), Pekka Niemelä, Leena Valkeapää, Merja Markkula, Ulla Taipale, Sini Haapalinna. Deputy members: Laura Beloff, Maija Salemaa. Coordinator for Ars Bioarctica: Erich Berger.

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PROJECT:

ArsBioARCTICA in Kilpisjärvi; art&science, bioart, Kilpisjärvi residency, projects, work shops…    …more text coming soon.

Erich Berger (FI / AT) started in December as the coordinator for the ArsBioARCTICA.

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COLLABORATION / PROJECT:

Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea

with Capsula and Finnish Bioart Society

more…

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“KAAMOS” (dark period / polar night)

is giving way to the sun again,

Kilpisjärvi January 2010: