Current
!NEW BOOK - July 2008!
Leonardo/MIT Press. Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience
New AIR workshop edition as part of Still Open.
AIR - Still Open workshop outline.
Projects/Events Photostream
(started August 2007)
PigeonBlog Full Video Doc
Collaborative
Preemptive Media
(an arts, activism & technology group)
Recent Organized Events
WetwareHackers
(bio workshop at ISEA)
Bio, Art & the Public Sphere
(conference)
Biotech Art Workshop
(workshop conducted by SymbioticA)
Things That Matter More
Critical Art Under Attack!
PigeonBlog provides an alternative way to participate in environmental air pollution data gathering. The project equips urban homing pigeons with GPS enabled electronic air pollution sensing devices capable of sending real-time location based air pollution and image data to an online mapping/blogging environment.
Beatriz da Costa is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, who
works at the intersection of contemporary art, engineering, politics, and the life sciences.
Beatriz is a former collaborator of Critical Art Ensemble and a co-founder of Preemptive Media,
an arts, activism and technology group. Beatriz is an Associate Professor of Arts, Computation, Engineering at the University
of California, Irvine.
contact - cv - university