Interactions with Living Leather: Registration

For workshop questions contact: (505) 819-3905, stemartslab@gmail.com
For venue questions contact: taoshive@unm.edu

Interactions with Living Leather
July 28, 2023
9am-12pm
Venue: UNM-Taos Hive
Location: 1146 Gusdorf Rd, Taos, NM 87571

Workshop description:

We invite you to participate in our workshop on "Interactions with Living Leather" at FEMeeting 2023 in Taos. The goal of this studio is to facilitate a space in which creative practitioners can collaborate, explore, make, and discuss SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast) – a sustainable biofilm, grown in kombucha tea, that acts similarly to traditional leathers when harvested and dried. Together we will explore how SCOBY can be customized through various fabrication techniques, and how to create interactive SCOBY interfaces. Through hands-on group activities with SCOBY, we will teach participants about sustainability, slowness, and biomaterials in the context of technology, design, and art.

Instructors

Fiona Bell: Computer Science, University of New Mexico

Fiona is a postdoctoral researcher in the Hand and Machine Lab at the University of New Mexico, designing, developing, and studying bio-based technologies that promote ecological sustainability and more-than-human care. She has organized several biomaterial workshops at the University of Colorado Boulder, her local public library, and at ACM conferences (CHI & TEI). Fiona is also an active alumnus of the Biodesign Challenge, mentoring current Biodesign Challenge teams and co-organizing various alumni events.

Mirela Alistar:  ATLAS Institute and Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder

Mirela is a bioartist, HCI researcher, and an Assistant Professor in Soft Materials at ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder leading the Living Matter Lab. Intersecting microbiology and HCI, her work extends the human to include interactions with their own microbiome and other living organisms. She has developed tangible living-media interfaces, and biochip-based systems for personalized healthcare. She has extensive experience organizing workshops in the context of DYIBio labs that she led or co-founded as well as in the academic context of HCI research.

For more: https://sites.google.com/colorado.edu/scoby-workshop



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