Hackteria/SGMK
As a community platform hackteria tries to encourage the collaboration of scientists, hackers and artists to combine their expertise, write critical and theoretical reflections, share simple instructions to work with lifescience technologies and cooperate on the organization of workshops, temporary labs, hack-sprints and meetings.
Hackteria originated as a webplatform and collection of Open Source Biological Art Projects instigated in February 2009 by Andy Gracie, Marc Dusseiller and Yashas Shetty, after collaboration during the Interactivos?09 Garage Science at Medialab Prado in Madrid. The aim of the project is to develop a rich wiki-based web resource for people interested in or developing projects that involve bioart, open source software/hardware, DIY biology, art/science collaborations and electronic experimentation. hackteria has since grown into an international network, with activities ranging from workshops to open labs and artistic interventions.
The SGMK (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Mechatronische Kunst) promotes creatives in electronic technology, mechanics, IT and other related areas. We understand this to be a creative expression of the human mind, which is not primarily utilitarian, but distinguishes itself through a holistic embrace of the unique. In this, we place research, events, networking, exchange and elevation, and the preservation of quality in mechatronic art, to be central.
