To be noted: two designers of bio-based projects, Jalila Essaïdi and Jonas Edvard will talk tomorrow night at an evening organised by our friends of Mediamatic.Mediamatic Bio-talks is a monthly lecture series that invites artists and designers to present and elaborate on their work concerning bio-based research and design.
Jalila Essaïdi, founder of BioArt Laboratories, uses biology as an artistic medium. She gained reputation with her research into the possibility of having human skin to produce spider silk thread. With spider silk thread being relatively much stronger than steel, a fabric of this thread would potentially be able to protect us from bullets. Essaïdi will elaborate on this project. The short clip shows two bullets shot at a small piece of human skin enforced with spider silk thread. Wait for the second bullet.
Jonas Edvard is a Danish industrial designer who finalized his Master in Product and Ceramic Design at The Royal Academy of Art, Design and Architecture in Copenhagen last year. At Mediamatic he will talk about his sustainable growing mushroom-mycelium lamp: the MYX Lamp. The living lamp-shaped texture provides you with Oyster mushrooms after 2 weeks. What remains after harvesting is the waste product, a beautiful lightweight material that is organic, sustainable and compostable.
Mediamatic Factory
VOC-kade 10
Amsterdam
9 April 2014, 20:00h