Ars Electronica

I was an assistant at the exhibition at the Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.

For two weeks I helped at every aspect of the building process to create a form that was part of the exhibit Biological Habitat: Breeding Spaces Technology, Made in Space by Zbigniew Oksiuta who received an Award of Distinction.

With Biological Habitat: Breeding Spaces Technology Zbigniew Oksiuta reaches for the stars. The centerpiece is the development of new forms of life in outer space. It’s not high tech, computers or astronauts launched into orbit but rather the building blocks of life itself that are said to make this possible. “Made in Biosphere” & “Made in Space” focus on DNA as the universal code of all life—embedded in biological reactors, it undergoes continuous further development autonomously and on its own. On Earth just like in outer space. The project is based on the insight that environment and physical laws determine the respective forms of life to the extent that their “experience” over the course of evolution is implemented in the building blocks of life, the strands of DNA. In the embryonic state, however, life emancipates itself from these guidelines and prescriptions. This is precisely what the biological habitat uses; it provides a biotope that is not determined by gravitation and physical laws on Earth but rather by conditions in outer space. Therefore, biological forms of life also develop differently here and—similar to life on Earth—reproduce themselves over the course of an evolutionary process.