Bio-electrical interfaces @csm grow lab

From 1 February to 29 February, Central Saint Martins’ Digital Innovation Season will explore and celebrate creativity in the digital space. This platform offers public talks and workshops for CSM students.The 2024 edition will focus on ‘Planetary Sensing’. This takes a ‘planetary’ perspective related to the climate crisis, social impact, and learning, teaching and research that engage cutting edge technologies like AI, IoT, wearables, and spatial computing. Rather than imagining a schism between the local and the global, a planetary perspective considers the material conditions of the planet - and how the earth understands and communicates through arrays of satellites, sensors, swarms, and servers that influence geographies, climate, and societies.

Central Saint Martins: Digital Innovation Season

Onsite workshop led by Bart Vandeput, Janne Halme &amp; Paola Corsini

<h3><strong>This event is for CSM Students only.</strong></h3><p><strong>Please note:</strong> due to limited places this workshop is open to applications -  you will be asked questions when you click 'Register'.</p><p>Your application will be reviewed by the DIS team, and we will email you with a response. We aim to notify you of our decision as promptly as possible.</p><h3>The workshop explores the relationalities between biological / microbial / cellular processes and solar power technology. Key inquiries that will be looked into are: What does colour tell us about electricity? What does science say about the role of colour in microbes? How is natural colour used in solar technology? Does microbial solar tell us something about the role of colour within organisms? Why are some bacteria named sapiens-wise as Cable bacteria? Do they reveal a window towards biocentric computing? 
</h3><h3>In the four-hour workshop, through presentations, hands-on solar assembling and testing (electrical and colour data) work, playful reflection and discussion we will try to answer and refine the questions above. Participants will be invited to create a basic microbial pigment based solar cell.
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<p>Wednesday 11 May 2022 1.30-5.30pm BST</p><p>Location: Central Saint Martins Grow Lab</p><p>Max 15 students</p><p></p>

<p><a href="https://bartaku.net/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bartaku</a> stands for the art_research practice of Dr Bart H.M. Vandeput. He holds a LIc. in Social Sciences and is <a href="https://shop.aalto.fi/p/1558-baroa-belaobara-berryapple/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Doctor of Arts</a>. Bartaku practice has two decades of collaboration-based experience in tying species and disciplines both within the arts and in-between art, science, and humanities. Most renowned are the temporary <a href="https://libarynth.org/luminous/phoef#overview_bartaku_light-energy-bodies_work_in_public" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Photoelectric Digestopians Lab series</a>, featuring digestible solar cells, intimately test-tasted on subjective tongues. Natural dye-based solar technology is the medium as well in Blck Vlvt (2020): the first hand-painted solar panel painting, which ties the Aronia m. berryapple plant with a painting by JMW Turner.</p><p><a href="https://research.aalto.fi/en/persons/janne-halme" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Janne Halme</a> is a researcher and educator at the New Energy Technologies group of the Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University. His main research field is solar energy physics and engineering, especially coloured and printed photovoltaics. He has coordinated and directed the Master’s Programme in Advanced Materials for Innovation and Sustainability (<a href="https://amis-master.eitrawmaterials.eu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">AMIS</a>). He is exploring the liminal space between art and science, and has collaborated with Bartaku and a group of scientists at Aalto and led to the creation of the first hand-painted solar panel, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6PZ-1iJpAY" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Blck Vlvt</a>, the <a href="https://www.aalto.fi/en/podcasts/painting-energies-podcast" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Painting Energies podcast</a>, and the exhibition series <a href="https://www.aalto.fi/en/events/towardless-plant-based-electrical-and-art-energy-virtual-exhibition" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Towardless: Plant-based Electrical and Art Energy</a>.</p>

<p><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4987-2235" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Paula Corsini</a> is a Science Specialist at the GrowLab in Central Saint Martins. Paula has extensive experience working in the lab and completed her PhD at UCL working with Arsenic resistance in microorganisms where she used many microbiology and genetic tools in her studies. She moved on to work at King's College London as a Research Associate studying behavioural changes in bacteria during infection in the gut using microbiology, genetics and microscopy, followed by another post at The Quadram Institute in Norwich working with microscopy and antibiotic resistance in bacteria.</p>

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