ABOUT THE FESTIVAL 2011
In 2011 the first Bio:fiction Science, Art and Film Festival took place in Vienna at the Museum of Natural History as a pioneer in its field. The festival was organised by Biofaction, providing information and dialogue about synthetic biology in an attractive, factual and entertaining way. Bio:fiction featured many events in three different categories; Film festival, the exhibition „synth-ethic“ and many interesting science talks.
After the original festival in Vienna, Bio:Fiction went on tour bringing a selection of our best films to people around the world. The Festival was in 4 different venues across the continents: Adelaide, Karlsruhe, Mannheim and HongKong.
PROGRAM
Check the details of the 2011 festival by scrolling down in this page or have a look at the pdf version of the program below.
ON TOUR
Following the first and original Bio:Fiction Science, Art and Film Festival in Vienna, Austria (May 13-14, 2011), Bio:Fiction went on tour having brought a selection of our best films to people around the world. The festival visited 4 venues in 4 cities accross continents; Adelaide, Karlsruhe, HongKong and Mannheim.
FILM FESTIVAL
130 films from 25 countries were submitted to the Bio:Fiction synthetic biology film festival. In a first selection phase those entries were selected that fit the topic of the festival and fulfilled minimal technical requirements. Finally, 52 films were shortlisted and judged by an international jury that selected winners in 4 award categories. In addition to the jury, films were voted by the public through our online contest.
Winners
Fiction Winner
“(In)visible”. Sonja Bäumel
Documentary Winner
“E-Chromi”. Daisy Ginsberg & James King
Animation Winner
“Bruce”. Tom Judd
Special Award of the Jury
“Die Schneider Krankheit”. Javier Chillon
Online Audience Award
“Who are the engineers of the future”. Christina Agapakis & Patrik Boyle
Shortlisted Films
A Life
Kelvin To / USA, 2010 / 03:08
https://vimeo.com/33838447
Die Schneider Krankheit
Javier Chillon / Spain, 2008 / 10:10
https://vimeo.com/22096783
(In)visible
Sonja Bäumel / Austria, 2009 / 04:07
https://vimeo.com/22097924
Scentsory Design ®
Dr. Jenny Tillotson / UK, 2005/ 05:00
https://vimeo.com/22099932
All American Hero
Charlotte Jarvis / UK, 2009 / 07:00
https://vimeo.com/22104798
New Sensual Interfaces
Chris Woebken/ USA, 2007 / 01:25
https://vimeo.com/22103978
Grow Your Own
Thomas Thwaites / UK, 2010 / 04:40
https://vimeo.com/22103780
Local Unit
Tad Ermitagno / Philippines, 2006 / 09:18
https://vimeo.com/22119938
Beyond God
Tao Wang / Germany, 2010 / 02:17
https://vimeo.com/22100766
Perfect Body
Mila Burghardt / Germany, 2010 / 02:15
https://vimeo.com/22100397
Protocells
Rachel Armstrong & Michael Simon Toon / UK, 2010 / 11:17
https://vimeo.com/22115996
Local Unit
Tad Ermitagno / Philippines, 2006 / 09:18
https://vimeo.com/22119938
Wir trafen uns in einem Garten
Gerald Zahn & Ania Land / Austria, 2007 / 01:30
https://vimeo.com/22118913
Secret Machine
Reynold Reynolds / Germany, 2009 / 14:00
https://vimeo.com/22118745
Die Prozedur
Jonas Unger / Germany, 2006 / 05:12
https://vimeo.com/22116707
Dog[Lab]01
France Cadet / France, 2004 / 11:22
https://vimeo.com/22113010
Transformation of competent cells
Yakir Guri / Germany, 2010 / 09:22
https://vimeo.com/22112108
Gilles Coorporation
Vianey Meurville / France, 2009/ 07:09
https://vimeo.com/22111886
Cellularity
James King / UK, 2010 / 02:33
https://vimeo.com/22109483
igem EPFL movie: Asaia, the pink force against Malaria
Solange Richter / Switzerland, 2010 / 03:22
https://vimeo.com/22111074
Hair in vitro
Robert Cernelc / Slovenia, 2010 / 08:06
https://vimeo.com/22110721
Synthetische Biologie: Ein neuer Weg der Evolution
Uwe Sleyter & Sonja Bäumen & Camillo Meinhart / Austria, 2010 / 03:25
https://vimeo.com/22109802
Cellularity
James King / UK, 2010 / 02:33
https://vimeo.com/22109483
Aphasia mechanica
Danny Warner / USA, 2010 / 03:00
https://vimeo.com/22109235
FunLab!
Susana Cámara Leret / Netherlands, 2010 / 02:08
https://vimeo.com/22109048
Smell Triggers
Susana Cámara Leret / Netherlands / 04:36
https://vimeo.com/22108931
Miniature Automata 12-13
Lycette Bros. / Australia, 2005 / 04:35
https://vimeo.com/22108544
Who are the engineers of the future?
Christina Agapakis & Patrick Boyle / USA, 2010 / 02:49
https://vimeo.com/22107225
Compound 74
Christina Agapakis & Patrick Boyle / USA, 2010 / 06:50
https://vimeo.com/22108028
Patents and synbio
Paul Muir / USA, 2010 / 15:00
https://vimeo.com/22106928
Sensorbricks
Lucas Schirmer / Germany, 2010/ 02:00
https://vimeo.com/22155907
Wir brauchen einen biologischen Existenzialismus
Reiner Maria Matysiks / Germany / 07:00
https://vimeo.com/22155722
Biotiffic
Rene Weilguni / Austria, 2010 / 02:40
https://vimeo.com/22155209
Origins of Life: Experiment #1
Adam W. Brown / USA, 2010 / 08:24
https://vimeo.com/22155018
The world of synthetic biology
Klemen Trupej / Slovenia, 2010 / 02:07
https://vimeo.com/22154476
Quasi-Objects / Cinematic N.07
Lorenzo Oggiano / Italia, 2006 / 04:38
https://vimeo.com/22154315
Bruce
Tom Judd / UK, 2009 / 03:00
https://vimeo.com/22154000
Transgenic Spidergoats
Sam Gaty and George Costakis / USA, 2010 / 06:12
https://vimeo.com/22153761
Pigeon d’Or
Tuur van Baalen / UK, 2010 / 11:46
https://vimeo.com/22153286
Synthetic Kingdom
Daisy Ginsberg/ UK, 2009 / 03:25
https://vimeo.com/22152486
Growth Assembly
Daisy Ginsberg/ UK, 2009 / 03:33
https://vimeo.com/22152229
Cinderella 3.0
Sebastian Harrer / Germany, 2010 / 08:00
https://vimeo.com/23578039
Molecular Porn
Allison Moore / Canada, 2005 / 03:00
https://vimeo.com/22151378
Creating Life: The ultimate engineering challenge
Kelly Neves & Dominik Rees-Roberts / UK, 2010 / 49:28
https://vimeo.com/22151147
The life alchemists
The Babbling Vagabounds, Dr. Sandrine Soubes, James Parsons/ UK, 2010 / 14:55
https://vimeo.com/22889779
OCCUPATION: movement II & III
Eric Schockmel / UK, 2010 / 06:30
https://vimeo.com/22142018
The thread of life: the ethical issues of synthetic biology for human health
A.M. Calladine / UK, 2010 / 37:00
https://vimeo.com/22139790
5 Questions: (the departure to an utopian synthetic biology future)
Veronica Ranner / UK, 2010 / 07:16
https://vimeo.com/22133236
Strandbeesten
Alexander Schlichter / Germany, 2008/ 32:00
https://vimeo.com/22132037
Super Cell
Katarina Sengstaken and the iGEM students from the Bauhaus University Weimar and the University Heidelberg / Germany, 2010 / 12:40
https://vimeo.com/22126294
Recobrain
Katarina Sengstaken and the iGEM students from the Bauhaus University Weimar and the University Heidelberg / Germany, 2010 / 02:38
https://vimeo.com/22124434
E.Chromi
Daisy Ginsberg & James King / UK, 2010 / 04:30
https://vimeo.com/22124012
ART
synth-ethic presented art work related to synthetic biology: While artists increasingly use biotechnologies in order to manipulate living systems, the new field of synthetic biology aims at applying engineering principles to biology, so to not only modify but to build up „life“ from scratch. In the exhibition synth-ethic, internationally reknown artists questioned this new technological dimension and the deriving ethical stance when life becomes synthetic. Their works explored the areas of tension between molecular biology and ecology, architecture and biochemistry, technology and nature, cybernetics and alchemy.
Artists
Have a look at the website of the exhibition to learn more!
Rachel Armstrong – Protocells
Art Orienté objet – Que le cheval vive en moi
Tuur Van Baalen – Pigeon d´Or
Adam Brown, Origins of Life
Chanteau and Tour – Nanoputians
Joe Davis – Bacterial Radio
Andy Gracie – Autoinducer
Roman Kirschner – Roots
Tissue Culture and Art Project – Semi-living Worry Dolls
Paul Vanouse – Latent Figure Protocol
TALKS
The first Bio:fiction Science, Art and Film Festival hosted many interesting talks and panel discussions with experts from various backgorund.
Have a look at some of them below or follow our video account to watch all the amazing discussions.
Panel Diskussions
INTRODUCING SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
Moderator: Markus Schmidt
– Luis Campos
(Drew University)
– Radha Krishnakumar
(J.Craig Venter Institute)
– Michael Liss (Life Technologies, R&D Synthetic Biology)
– Uwe Sleytr
(Univ. of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna)
– Steen Rasmussen
(Univ. of Southern Denmark)
SCIENCE&FICTION: CINEMA AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
Lecture with many cinema film clips
– Angela Meyer
(IDC)
– Amelie Cserer
(IDC)
– Frans Meulenberg
(Erasmus University Medical Center)
ETHICAL ASPECTS OF SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
Moderator: Konrad Steiner
– Joachim Boldt
(Inst. f. Ethik u. Geschichte der Medizin)
– Albert Ludwig
(Univ. Freiburg)
– Simone Reiter
(HLFS Ursprung)
– Norbert Hemetsberger
(HLFS Ursprung)
– Max Habl
(HLFS Ursprung)
– Birgit Wiltschi
(BIOSS, Albert Ludwig Univ. Freiburg)
– Huib de Vriend
(Lisconsult)
DO-IT-YOURSELF AND BIOHACKERS: FACTS AND FICTION
Moderator: Astrid Kuffner
– Jason Bobe
(Harvard University, DIYBio)
– Jernej Turnsek & Tina Lebar
(iGEM Slovenia)
– Sonja Bäumel
(freelance artist)
– Johannes Grenzfurthner
(monochrom)
ART AND DESIGN WITH SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
Moderator: Johannes Grenzfurthner
– Rachel Armstrong
(Greenwich Univ, Avatar)
– Daisy Ginsberg
(Synthetic Aesthetics)
– Christina Agapakis
(Harvard University)
– Joe Davis
(artist, researcher at MIT)
synth-ethic EXHIBITION
Moderator: Jens Hauser
– Oron Catts
(Symbiotica/Tissue Culture and Art, Perth)
– Andy Gracie
(freelance artist)
– Adam Brown
(Michigan State University)
– Roman Kirschner
(freelance artist)
– Benoît Mangin
(Art Orienté objet)
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY – SYNTHETIC ANTIBIOTICS?
Moderator: Veronika Schmidt
– Sven Panke
(ETH Zurich)
– Joachim Boldt
(Inst. f. Ethik u. Geschichte der Medizin)
– Albert Ludwig
(Univ. Freiburg)
– Helge Torgersen
(Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung, ÖAW)
ETHICAL QUESTIONS IN SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
Moderator: Huib de Vriend
– Julian Kinderlerer
(Univ. of Cape Town, Univ. of Technology Delft, European Group on Ehtics)
– Jens Ried
(Systematic Theology / Ethics, Univ. Erlangen-Nuremberg)
– Gregory Kaebnick
(Hastings Centre)
– Ursula Damm & Bernhard Hopfengärtner
(Faculty of Media, Bauhaus University of Weimar – Supercell Supermarket)
OUTLOOK ON SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY APPLICATIONS
Moderator: Georg Sachs
– Vitor Martins dos Santos
(Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University)
– Trygve Brautaset
(SINTEF, Trondheim)
– Anton Glieder
(Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology)
– Philippe Marliere
(Isthmus SARL & Global Bioenergies)
TEAM
Bio:Fiction was a part of the project CISYNBIO: Cinema and Synthetic Biology, initiated by the Viennese organisation for International Dialogue and Conflict Management.
DR. MARKUS SCHMIDT
Producer
Working on safety issues in synthetic biology, trying to improve the science-public interface through collaboration with film makers and artists
CAMILLO MEINHART
Film festival planning and technical issues
Award winning documentary film maker, camera and post production
MELISSA SAAVEDRA
Film festival organisation, logistics
ALBERT BECKMANN
Film festival planning
BIRGIT SCHMIDT MA
Visual communication
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