Bioart & Design Award
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The Bioart & Design Award (BAD) is a Netherlands-based bioart competition that focusses on interdisciplinary thinking and art-based research.[1] Dutch and international participants are judged by an international jury, with winners receiving 25.000€ each to further realise their bioart research projects.[1] The most recent edition of the annual award to date took place in 2024.[2]
Overview
The first bioart and design competition took place in 2010 under the name Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award (DA4GA) which it kept until 2013.[3][4] Since then the award has collaborated with various Dutch art and cultural research institutions, including the Netherlands Genomics Initiative, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Centre for Society & Genomics, ZonMw, NWO, Mu Hybrid Art House, Waag Futurelab, Bio Art Laboratories, and other educational partners.[5][2][4]
The award matches recent art and design graduates with researchers to create bioart projects that can then be entered and exhibited as part of the competition.[2][4] After participating in a matchmaking event, teams consisting of both artists and researchers propose their projects to an international jury.[4] The three winning teams receive the price money of 25.000€ and have six months to create their bioart pieces, which are then exhibited at the end of the year.[2]
Science communication and impact study
In 2017, an impact study was conducted on the science communication potential and influence on the artistic and research creations by participants of the award.[4] It uses a mixed methods approach consisting of a survey and interviews with everyone involved in setting up, judging and participating in the competition. The study revealed that participating in the competition as a researcher made them re-evaluate their own approaches to scientific thinking towards a more art-based, interdisciplinary way. Additionally, the collaboration between recently graduated design and art students and life sciences researchers fostered a development of new scientific tools and research methodologies.[4] The study was published again in a book about the award in 2022 by design writer William Myers.[6]
Winners
| Year | Winners | Artwork Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Jalila Essaïdi with Marcel Piët | Bulletproof Skin: 2.6g 329m/s |
| Maurizio Montalti with Prof. Dr. Han Wösten | System Synthetics | |
| Matthijs Munnik with Richard de Boer | Microscopic Opera | |
| 2011 | Tiddo Bakker with Henk Jalink & Rob van der Schoor | In Vena Verbum |
| Center for Genomic Gastronomy | Eat Less, Live More – and Pray for Beans | |
| Susana Cámara Leret & Mike Thompson with Jan van der Greef | Aqua Vita | |
| 2012 | Charlotte Jarvis with Christine Mummery, Christian Freund & Harold Mikkers | Ergo Sum |
| Haseeb Ahmed with Jos Kleinjans | Fish Bone Chapel | |
| Laura Cinti & Howard Boland with Bela Mulder & Tom Shimizu | Living Mirror | |
| 2014 | Studio PSK with Jan Komdeur | The Economics of Evolution: The Perfect Pigeon |
| Špela Petrič with Klaas Timmermans | Naval Gazing | |
| Julia Kaisinger & Katharina Unger with Prof. Dr. Han Wösten & Kasia Lukasiewiecz | Fungi Mutarium (Growing Food From Toxic Waste) | |
| 2015 | Emma Dorothy Conley with Guus Roeselers | MSA: Microbiome Security Agency |
| Isaac Monté with Toby Kiers | The Art of Deception | |
| Agi Haines with Marcel de Jeu & Jos van der Geest | Drones with Desires | |
| 2016 | Lilian van Daal & Roos Meerman with Renée van Amerongen | Dynamorphosis, the beauty of inner mechanisms |
| Pei-Ying Lin with Miranda de Graaf | Tame is to Tame | |
| Cecilia Jonsson with Rodrigo Leite de Oliveira | Haem | |
| 2017 | Jiwon Woo with Prof. Dr. Han Wösten | Mother’s Hand Taste (Son-mat) |
| Xandra van der Eijk with Han Lindeboom | Seasynthesis | |
| Guo Cheng with Heather Leslie | A Felicitous Neo-Past | |
| 2018 | Baum & Leahy with Stefan Schouten, Julie Lattaud, Laura Schreuder and Gabriella Weiss | Microbiocene: Ancient ooze to future myths |
| Ani Liu with Mario Maas, Matthias Cabri and Onno Baur | No regrets for what you haven't been, Be the ghost you want to see in the machine | |
| Yiyun Chen with Patrick Schrauwen & Vera Schrauwen-Hinderling | Horizontal Living | |
| 2019 | Jonathan Ho & Joris Koene | Sex Shells |
| Emma van der Leest, Aneta Schaap-Oziemlak, Paul Verweij & Sybren De Hoog | Fungkee | Fungal Supercoatings | |
| Michael Sedbon & Raoul Frese | CMD: Experiments in Bio-Algorithmic-Politics | |
| 2020 | Nadine Botha with Henry de Vries | The Orders of the Undead |
| Sissel Marie Tonn with Heather Leslie & Juan Garcia Vallejo | Becoming a Sentinel Species | |
| Dasha Tsapenko with Prof. Dr. Han Wösten[7] | Fur_tilize | |
| 2022 | Nonhuman Nonsense with Marte Stoorvogel | Mud & Flood: The Return of Nehalennia |
| Marlot Meyer with Marcel de Jeu & Jos van der Gees | Hacking Heuristics | |
| Kuang-Yi Ku with Henry de Vries | Filthy Anatomy | |
| 2023 | Anna Vershinina with Wieger Wamelink | ExoGarden 3D-Printed Modular Eco-Habitats for Earth and Space |
| pamela varela & ella hebendanz with Joris Koene | re-c(O)unting: bodies, stories, laboratories | |
| Hung Lu Chan & Floris de Lange | Close Encounters with Inner Aliens | |
| 2024 | Carla Alcalà Badias & Laura Villanueva | Microbial Prophetesses |
| Emilia Tapprest & Samar Khan | Ecotonal Beings |
External links
- Bio Art & Design Award - official website