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| Soft Genes - Life In The Toolkit
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| With Christina Agapakis (Founder, Oscillator), Shelby Newsad (Investor, Compound), Heather Dewey-Hagborg (Artist). |
| BioBat Art Space, Brooklyn Army Terminal, 58th St |
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Sep 10 (Wed) , 2025 @ 06:30 PM
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How is the concept of "life" reimagined with our current & future generative tools in vitro & in silico?
Join Soft Genes, SeedAI, & BioBAT Art Space in an evening of exploration & connection, featuring a conversation with Shelby Newsad, building new visions for bio & health, & Heather Dewey-Hagborg, information artist & bio-hacker, moderated by Christina Agapakis exploring the aesthetic & material intersection these questions raise.
Doors: 6:30 pm
Panel discussion: 7:00 - 7:45 pm
Hang: 7:45 - 9:30 pm
Christina Agapakis is an extremely interdisciplinary synthetic biologist working to build more creative & human futures for biotechnology. She is the founder of Oscillator, a design agency telling new stories at the intersection of life science & technology, & a guest curator for an upcoming show at BioBAT Art Space.
Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a New York-based artist & biohacker who is interested in art as research & technological critique. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair, cigarette butts, chewed up gum) collected in public places.
Heather has shown work internationally at events & venues including the World Economic Forum, the Daejeon Biennale, the Guangzhou Triennial, & the Shenzhen Urbanism & Architecture Biennale, Transmediale, the Walker Center for Contemporary Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, & PS1 MoMA.
Shelby Newsad is committed to facilitating step-change technologies in bio & health. Before investing at Compound, they've worked as a bioscience researcher across plant sciences (PhD, University of Cambridge), neuroscience (National Institutes of Health), & drug discovery (Helmholtz Institute). As a former researcher & technologist at heart, Shelby loves getting deep into the tech with founders & has >20 active bio & health theses.
BioBAT Art Space is a non-profit gallery & interdisciplinary research studio dedicated to fostering creative practice at the intersection of art & science. Located within BioBAT, a biotech incubator at the historic Brooklyn Army Terminal, it is one of the largest spaces in the world devoted to bioart. BioBAT Art Space advances its mission through large-scale exhibitions, STEAM education programs, public engagement initiatives, international academic collaborations, & experimental residencies for artists & scientists. By bridging scientific innovation with artistic expression, BioBAT Art Space cultivates dialogue, discovery, & transformative approaches to the pressing challenges of the 21st century.
SeedAi is s a non-profit organization that works at the forefront of artificial intelligence policy & governance, collaborating with policymakers, scientists, academics, & the private sector to design policies, programs, & tools.
Soft Genes is an LA-based research community that connects overlapping worlds in art, academia, & industry to enable creative practice that centers biology via interdisciplinary collaboration. Through sharing materials & skills, we aim to enable work that eschews the boundaries of "art" & "science.
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