[artinfo] Grow Your Own - Science Gallery Dublin Open Call

[Annick Bureaud]

Calling all synthetic biologists, bioartists, biodesigners, amateur 
biotechnologists and biohackers. Science Gallery is seeking proposals 
for projects for our upcoming flagship exhibition GROW YOUR OWN...

GROW YOUR OWN... is a curated, open call exhibition tackling 
provocative questions raised by synthetic biology. Curated by Paul 
Freemont (Imperial College), Anthony Dunne (Royal College of Art), 
Cathal Garvey, Daisy Ginsberg, and Michael John Gorman (Science 
Gallery), GROW YOUR OWN... offers audiences a participative 
experience to explore the possibilities and potential implications of 
synthetic biology, through an exhibition, events and workshops.

Deadline for applications is midnight, Sunday May 26th, 2013. Full 
details and the online submission form can be found at: 
http://sciencegallery.com/growyourown

We are interested in works that offer a participative and interactive 
visitor experience for a broad age range of visitors, especially 
those aged 15-25. We seek projects that inform, intrigue, provoke 
dialogue and engage audiences about an unfamiliar, complex and 
far-reaching topic, move the public conversation about synthetic 
biology forward.

Tackling the sweeping discussion of synthetic biology that tends to 
focus on a biotech future of personalised medicine and cells that 
pump out fuel, GROW YOUR OWN... will explore the ambiguous issues 
raised by 'designing' biology too.

We are interested in receiving proposals on a wide variety of topics including:

     Broad themes such as living versus non-living, human culture 
versus nature, design versus evolution, the intentional design of 
nature
     Research areas in synthetic biology such as health, energy, 
environment, biocomputing, materials and agriculture or new/unusual 
themes that have not entered the debate yet
     Current research and challenges within synthetic biology
     The hype spectrum that swings from potential world saving utopia 
to global bio catastrophe
     Different processes and approaches with synthetic biology 
research, such as understanding and modeling living things and their 
processes at a molecular level, modification of existing organisms 
such as bacteria, the building of synthetic organisms that can carry 
out specific actions, the construction of novel organisms from the 
bottom up
     The potential impact of synthetic biology on everyday life, how 
it might look and feel
     Social and ethical concerns of synthetic biology such as 
bioterror, biosecurity, the dual-use dilemma, questions around the 
creation of synthetic life, governance, intellectual property and 
ownership, bioerror and intentional environmental release
     DIY biology
     Participatory experiments and workshops


GROW YOUR OWN... will run at Science Gallery from October 2013 to January 2014.

The open call for projects closes at 12 midnight on May 26th 2013. 
Full details: http://sciencegallery.com/growyourown

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