Using microbial fuel cells, participants will create a living installation where the natural activity of bacteria generates electricity. Starting with hands-on experiments, we will learn together how to generate electricity from soil, share imaginaries, and form groups around collective ideas. As small groups, you'll be invited to create an experimental installation powered or triggered by mud, combining creativity with bio-energy. What would you dream of that is powered by the bacteria living in mud? The goal is to let the energy of the mud bring our collective garden to life. Don’t be shy, feel free to contribute with your own artistic practice. And if you don’t have one, that’s perfect too! You can join by helping the cells move things through microcontrollers, motors, and other playful experiments.

Friday & Saturday: 10:00—18:00
Sunday afternoon: informal presentation of the results

💻 Bring your own computer (if you have a laptop)

If you are artistic: bring any materials, equipment, or instruments (electronics or non-electronics) that you like to use in your practice.

All kinds of materials for constructing installations, trash, old electronics, recycled materials (wood, metal, pipes, rods, paper, wheels, balloons, plastics, etc) for building. Also if you have any leftover materials from making your artwork!

Bring a Glass Jar, if you have one. (Around 1~2 liters size.)

Tickets for the workshops

Tickets get you a seat for the 3 days of the workshop (19/09→21/09)

• Full price • 80€
• Friendly price for students, teachers, citizens of Molenbeek, unemployed, 65+, Fablab members • 50€

Combo tickets workshop + dinners

Workshop participants are invited to join the dinners on Friday & Saturday evening with a special price of 8€ per dinner instead of 15€!

• Full price + 1 dinner • 88€
• Full price + 2 dinners • 96€
• Friendly price + 1 dinner • 58€
• Friendly price + 2 dinners • 66€

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Anna Pastor is a multidisciplinary French artist based in Brussels. Her practice focuses on sculpture, installation, and digital art. She explores materiality and movement through sculptural installations, working primarily with everyday maintenance and construction materials such as wood, PVC, and plastic sheeting, into which she integrates motors. Her work incorporates notions of artifice, the choreography of objects, and the relationships between humans and machines. She translates this fascination into staged materials and the transformation of references into sensory landscapes. She conceives her installations as immersive environments, where each element interacts and coexists within a form of modular choreography.

🔗 https://www.instagram.com/annaouanna/

Sunjoo Lee is an interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges art, technology, and ecology. Based in both the Netherlands and South Korea, she’s fascinated by diverging the use of electronics and digital tools beyond human interest. Her practice often explores topics such as; more-than-human philosophy, emergent systems, biomimicry, permacomputing, and future forms of symbiosis.
Sunjoo regularly collaborates with biologists, ecologists, and engineers to develop artistic research and create multimedia installations that celebrate the hybrid partnership of the biosphere and technosphere. She co-founded the research collective Getbol Lab and is currently an artist-in-residence at Creative Coding Utrecht.

🔗 https://sunjoolee.com/
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