Image: Špela Petrič, Eating back: radio contamination, film still, 2025.
The Bioart Society is hosting a film screening for The Night of Science, featuring works by our artist in residency programme. Exploring themes of AI, machine learning, and synthetic biology, the screening includes films by Roberta Gigante & Christina Stadlbauer, HSURAE, Špela Petrič, and Laura Elidedt Rodriguez. These artists are currently collaborating with our laboratory partners to conduct interdisciplinary research and develop works for an upcoming exhibition. Through this we are integrating critical artistic practices from the field of art and science to foster a deeper reflection on the convergence of AI/ML and synthetic biology.
Date: 22 Jan 2026 18:00 — 20:00
Location: SOLU, Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), 00580 Helsinki, Finland
More infos about the films here.
Film descriptions:
Situated Knowledge (15 mins) by Laura Elidedt Rodriguez
Language/ Subtitles: English
This video work sits somewhere between an essay and a lecture. It shares my current working process during the Bioart Society residency, where I am collaborating with the deCYPher project.The video reflects on how scientific research is shaped not only by formal methods and protocols, but also by personal experiences, informal actions, and moments that fall outside official procedures. These often-unseen practices influence both the research itself and the outcomes of the residency.The project is now moving toward the creation of an alternative way of working: a counter-protocol based on rituals and practices of care. This speculative approach explores how such methods could exist within synthetic biology, imagining proteins not only as technical objects but as hybrid entities shaped by human, cultural, and scientific processes.
Feline Intelligence (6.06 mins) by HSURAE
Language/ Subtitles: English/Chinese
The desire to become Other. Non-human, trans-human, more-than-human. This desire is seductive, a primordial desire, arising from the soup of endosymbiosis. This desire is often framed as perverse, a taboo against the myth of the individual. In late capitalism it is not economical to understand that we are not in ourselves, we are through others. Always through others. Our agency is multitudinal and incommensurable. Our intelligence is distributed and collective. How do we model an intelligence that is not just machine learning to become brain? How do we develop othered kinds of intelligence?
Apiculus à la plage, to sex or not to sex by Roberta Gigante and Christina Stadlbauer
Language/ Subtitles: English
Apiculus à la plage, to sex or not to sex is a fungal pornofantasy that draws on real mycological strategies of attraction, fusion, refusal, cloning, courting at a distance, and homogamy. About the pull between needing only one self and becoming many selves in one. Through an imagined sensual life of mycelium, the film speculates on desire without bodies, intimacy without eyes, and on encounter and pleasure as a shifting spectrum rather than a rule. A collaboration between Roberta Gigante and Christina Stadlbauer.
Eating back: Radio Contamination (4.11) by Špela Petrič
Language/ Subtitles: Polish / English
Eating Back: Radio Contamination is one in a series of interventions created in response to insights from the artistic research of the Dutch horticultural sector. The research investigates how digital infrastructures are deployed in the care of living bodies and how they shape the relationships between entities living and working under their gaze. This particular intervention is devoted to migrant laborers at the intersection of their economic precarity, threat of job loss because of automation, and the pop radio soundscape dominating the interiors of greenhouses far and wide.
Field Notes Post-Terraformation (6.43 mins) by Laura Elidedt Rodriguez
Language/ Subtitles: English
This video work documents a situated exploration of soil health and mythology in Atyrau, developed in collaboration with curator and storyteller Daria Testo (Buryad-Mongolian, Khori Buryad) and soil scientist Daruen Kaliaskar (Kazakhstan). We co-created culturally and ecologically grounded guidelines for field exploration, attentive to more-than-human entities. The soils of Atyrau are approached as sites of terraformation, shaped by hegemonic histories of oil, gas, and colonial geoengineering that inscribe violence, extraction, and ecological vulnerability, while simultaneously holding resilience, memory, and forms of resistance embedded in traditional ecological knowledge. From this tension emerges the Code of Conduct for research with more-than-human beings, summarised in the video, which proposes a radical art-based research with more-than-human entities as co-authors and collaborators for the field exploration of future ecologies.
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