photo: Paavo Junttila

THE FINNISH BIOART SOCIETY:

Established May 2008, the Finnish Bioart Society 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 the motor behind Ars Bioarctica which aims to establish a common art&sci initiative together with Finnish universities, institutions and organisation interested and working in art and science collaborations.

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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ARS BIOARCTICA INITIATIVE:

Ars Bioarctica is an art&sci programme with a focus on the Arctic environment which was started in autumn 2008. The executive partners of Ars Bioarctica are the Bioart Society and the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station / Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences/ University of Helsinki. Ars Bioarctica aims to establish concrete joint projects between artists and scientists to develop new kind of scientific and artistic thinking and through this participate and contribute to the discussion on the relation of humankind and nature. The goals of Ars Bioarctica are to establish a common art&sci initiative together with Finnish universities, institutions and organisation interested and working in art and science collaborations, the development of art & sci activities at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station and to become a long-term, national and international programme of art&sci.

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Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea:

Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea is a collaboration project between Capsula and the Finnish Bioart Society for TURKU2011 European Culture Capital.

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“KAAMOS” (dark period / polar night)

is giving way to the sun again,

Kilpisjärvi January 2010: