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Karen Ingram & Associates
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Only a few more slots left to participate in the yeast painting workshop tomorrow at Others! If miss getting a slot and you don’t get to paint on a Petri dish, you are welcome to watch. Link to secure a slot is in the bio. 🧫 Please join me Sa
Only a few more slots left to participate in the yeast painting workshop tomorrow at Others! If miss getting a slot and you don’t get to paint on a Petri dish, you are welcome to watch. Link to secure a slot is in the bio. 🧫 Please join me Sat. Nov. 16 at 4pm where we will paint with yeast in Petri dishes. 🌻 Your pieces will be part of a bioart installation @biogeneticblooms + Others at Others (@brothersrockaway + @washedup.nyc), Beach 97 and the boardwalk In Rockaway Beach from November 23 until December 8. 🎟️ A limited number of slots are available for $25 via Eventbrite. Link below and in bio. 💖 Thank you to Brothers and Washed Up for the opportunity to share my practice and work with the Rockaway community. 🙏 Thanks always to @biobat_artspace, @genspacenyc, and @aminobiolab 🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biogenetic-blooms-x-others-brothers-washed-up-tickets-1072764390169
Thank you @np.student.art.alliance and @shepardnusbaum at @sunynpart @sunynewpaltz for having me as a visiting artist in their lecture series yesterday! 💫 It was an honor to learn about your work. Conversations (in no order) about neural networks,
Thank you @np.student.art.alliance and @shepardnusbaum at @sunynpart @sunynewpaltz for having me as a visiting artist in their lecture series yesterday! 💫 It was an honor to learn about your work. Conversations (in no order) about neural networks, water behavior, the moon, Donna Haraway, solar punk, construction palettes, playground equipment, artist entrepreneurship, Micky mouse, the Chilean revolution, murder documentaries, foliage and flora, color theory, witchery, truck nuts, games, money, asparagus, and so much more. ✨ A fascinating eclectic array of talent and ideas and I can’t wait to see more! 🙏
Please join me Sat. Nov. 16 at 4pm where we will paint with yeast in Petri dishes. Your pieces will be part of a bioart installation at Others (@brothersrockaway + @washedup.nyc), Beach 97 and the boardwalk In Rockaway Beach from November 23 until De
Please join me Sat. Nov. 16 at 4pm where we will paint with yeast in Petri dishes. Your pieces will be part of a bioart installation at Others (@brothersrockaway + @washedup.nyc), Beach 97 and the boardwalk In Rockaway Beach from November 23 until December 8. 🎟️ A limited number of slots are available for $25 via Eventbrite. Link below and in bio. 💖 Thank you to Brothers and Washed Up for the opportunity to share my practice and work with the Rockaway community. 🙏 Thanks always to @biobat_artspace, @genspacenyc, and @aminobiolab 🧫 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biogenetic-blooms-x-others-brothers-washed-up-tickets-1072764390169
I’m teaching another installment of “Synbio for Creatives” with @elizabethtuck at @genspacenyc November 16 &17! In this workshop, we will: 🔮 Learn about existing and potential applications of synthetic biology ⚖️ Consider the
I’m teaching another installment of “Synbio for Creatives” with @elizabethtuck at @genspacenyc November 16 &17! In this workshop, we will: 🔮 Learn about existing and potential applications of synthetic biology ⚖️ Consider the various ethical implications of this emerging technology 🧫 Culture and create your own genetically engineered E. coli 🖌️ Paint an image of your choosing using genetically engineered E. coli 🎨 Extract pigments from genetically engineered E. coli to use in painting 🧐 No biology experience necessary, apart from curiosity and a creative spirit! Link in bio and below. 🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/synthetic-biology-for-creatives-tickets-1043098655157?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios 👀 👀 👀 I’ll be prototyping this class over the next few weeks, so keep an eye on my stories if you’re curious! Shout outs to @elizabethtuck @gemsonmyface @aminobiolab 🧫🎨🖌️ The images in this post were painted by me using E.coli as part of my @biogeneticblooms project
GUI/GOOEY curated by @laurasplan launched online today Reception tonight at @plexusprojects 6-8pm Link below and in bio: https://www.plexusprojects.org/gui-gooey-2024
GUI/GOOEY curated by @laurasplan launched online today Reception tonight at @plexusprojects 6-8pm Link below and in bio: https://www.plexusprojects.org/gui-gooey-2024
I’m honored to be included in GUI/GOOEY, a group exhibition @plexusprojects curated by @laurasplan. GUI/GOOEY explored digital representations of the biological world. 🧫🤖 From Plexus Projects: 📢 GUI/GOOEY Group Exhibition — URL+IRL Op
I’m honored to be included in GUI/GOOEY, a group exhibition @plexusprojects curated by @laurasplan. GUI/GOOEY explored digital representations of the biological world. 🧫🤖 From Plexus Projects: 📢 GUI/GOOEY Group Exhibition — URL+IRL Opens Oct 19, 2024 plexusprojects.org Plexus Projects (@plexusprojects) is pleased to present the second edition of “GUI/GOOEY”, a series of online exhibitions exploring digital representations of the biological world curated by artist Laura Splan (@laurasplan). “GUI/GOOEY” features artworks that examine notions of “life” and “nature” with computational, technological, digital, and virtual tools. The selected artists reflect a range of perspectives with international representation from more than twenty countries. Together they simultaneously interrogate liminal sensations and materialities of membranes and interfaces, bits and bodies. GALLERY EXHIBITION + RECEPTION In celebration of the launch of the online exhibition, selected works from the online exhibition will be looping in succession on screens in the gallery. The online exhibition will also be projected in the gallery for visitor exploration of the images, videos, and interactive artworks. GALLERY HOURS: October 19 & 20 from 12–6pm PUBLIC RECEPTION: October 19 from 6–8pm Plexus Projects, 198 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn, NY #guigooey #plexusprojects
The animation created with the bioart from the “Biogenetic Blooms: Bioart in Rockaway” workshops is live on YouTube. Link below and in bio: https://youtu.be/xeEVVP5tBLM?si=IBjd_5cE2tPEJS7i 🧫 More about this project on the way! 🙏 @nyfacu
The animation created with the bioart from the “Biogenetic Blooms: Bioart in Rockaway” workshops is live on YouTube. Link below and in bio: https://youtu.be/xeEVVP5tBLM?si=IBjd_5cE2tPEJS7i 🧫 More about this project on the way! 🙏 @nyfacurrent @rockawayfilmfest @biobat_artspace @genspacenyc @aminobiolab
My “Biogenetic Blooms” project was covered in @nature_the_journal this month. Read the full piece via the link in my bio and below: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02397-8 Thanks you @daniel.grushkin for the words. Hat tip a
My “Biogenetic Blooms” project was covered in @nature_the_journal this month. Read the full piece via the link in my bio and below: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02397-8 Thanks you @daniel.grushkin for the words. Hat tip and thanks to: @biobat_artspace @elenasoterakis @nyulangone @bannnana_banananza @opentrons_ @genspacenyc
Last night of the @rockawayfilmfest & last chance to catch “Biogenetic Blooms: Bioart in Rockaway” in the Arverne Cinema Display window. A magical ending to the festival, with a film by Agnes Martin accompanied by chamber music. 📸
Last night of the @rockawayfilmfest & last chance to catch “Biogenetic Blooms: Bioart in Rockaway” in the Arverne Cinema Display window. A magical ending to the festival, with a film by Agnes Martin accompanied by chamber music. 📸 @josephjosephstudio I’ll be posting more about this project in the coming weeks, but thank you to all who participated and thank you to @rockawayfilmfest for creating a forum for experimentation and collaboration for so many. 💖
🎥🌊🪼🪸🧬🧫 Saturday @biogeneticblooms hosted a microbial painting workshop on Petri dishes @rockawayfilmfest. The artworks were incubated and photographed and compiled into a short animated film that is displayed in the Arverne Cinema installation
🎥🌊🪼🪸🧬🧫 Saturday @biogeneticblooms hosted a microbial painting workshop on Petri dishes @rockawayfilmfest. The artworks were incubated and photographed and compiled into a short animated film that is displayed in the Arverne Cinema installation window until the end of the festival. 👀 On view now! 🔜 More on this project soon! 📸 Arverne Cinema Display window photo by @josephjosephstudio 🎶 “Stranger Still” by @vetiverse from the album “Complete Strangers” 🙌 Made possible by these organizations:
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) @nyfacurrent 
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) @nyculture 
Rockaway Film Festival @rockawayfilmfest 
BioBAT Art Space @biobat_artspace 
Genspace @genspacenyc 
Amino Labs @aminobiolab 🙏 “Biogenetic Blooms: Bioart in Rockaway” is made possible in part through a 2024 Queens Art Fund (QAF) New Work Grant awarded to Karen Ingram for her project “Biogenetic Blooms: Collaborations with Genetically Modified Yeast”. The grant is administered by New York Foundation for the Arts (@nyfacurrent ) in partnership with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (@nyculture ).
Only a few more slots left to participate in the yeast painting workshop tomorrow at Others! If miss getting a slot and you don’t get to paint on a Petri dish, you are welcome to watch. Link to secure a slot is in the bio. 🧫 Please join me Sa Thank you @np.student.art.alliance and @shepardnusbaum at @sunynpart @sunynewpaltz for having me as a visiting artist in their lecture series yesterday! 💫 It was an honor to learn about your work. Conversations (in no order) about neural networks, Please join me Sat. Nov. 16 at 4pm where we will paint with yeast in Petri dishes. Your pieces will be part of a bioart installation at Others (@brothersrockaway + @washedup.nyc), Beach 97 and the boardwalk In Rockaway Beach from November 23 until De I’m teaching another installment of “Synbio for Creatives” with @elizabethtuck at @genspacenyc November 16 &17! In this workshop, we will: 🔮 Learn about existing and potential applications of synthetic biology ⚖️ Consider the GUI/GOOEY curated by @laurasplan launched online today Reception tonight at @plexusprojects 6-8pm Link below and in bio: https://www.plexusprojects.org/gui-gooey-2024 I’m honored to be included in GUI/GOOEY, a group exhibition @plexusprojects curated by @laurasplan. GUI/GOOEY explored digital representations of the biological world. 🧫🤖 From Plexus Projects: 📢 GUI/GOOEY Group Exhibition — URL+IRL Op The animation created with the bioart from the “Biogenetic Blooms: Bioart in Rockaway” workshops is live on YouTube. Link below and in bio: https://youtu.be/xeEVVP5tBLM?si=IBjd_5cE2tPEJS7i 🧫 More about this project on the way! 🙏 @nyfacu My “Biogenetic Blooms” project was covered in @nature_the_journal this month. Read the full piece via the link in my bio and below: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02397-8 Thanks you @daniel.grushkin for the words. Hat tip a Last night of the @rockawayfilmfest & last chance to catch “Biogenetic Blooms: Bioart in Rockaway” in the Arverne Cinema Display window. A magical ending to the festival, with a film by Agnes Martin accompanied by chamber music. 📸 🎥🌊🪼🪸🧬🧫 Saturday @biogeneticblooms hosted a microbial painting workshop on Petri dishes @rockawayfilmfest. The artworks were incubated and photographed and compiled into a short animated film that is displayed in the Arverne Cinema installation

Karen Ingram is an Artist, Designer, and Educator focused on SciComm & SynBio. Her unconventional career path has placed her work in a wide array of places; apparel, construction scaffolding, books, microbes, surfboard fins, and Times Square. 

Karen has a special interest in emerging biotechnology and is a co-author of “BioBuilder: Synthetic Biology in the Lab (O’Reilly, 2015),” which has been published in Japanese (2018) and Russian (2019). She is an Emerging Tech Fellow at The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (known as the d.school) at Stanford University where she has been working with the d.school to build synthetic biology teaching tools for K-12 and beyond. One output from that is REP magazine, an emerging technology magazine for students. REP magazine is “… dedicated to cultivating equitable designers of emerging technology.” Ingram is also a Bio.Polis (Bio Policy & Leadership in Society) affiliate. Bio.Polis is a strategic initiative of Stanford University's Department of Bioengineering which seeks to co-develop technologies, policies and leaders to guide the future of biological innovation in the public interest. As an affiliate, Ingram is recognized for supporting specific projects and for advancing aligned efforts within other organizations at Stanford and beyond.

Selected as a Synbio LEAP fellow in 2015, Karen is recognized as an emerging leader in synthetic biology. Through LEAP, Ingram worked with a bioethicist to found Colab Futures, which spawned a number of collaborative projects, including “Fallacy Bingo,” a game for use in nightlife venues as well as the classroom. Fallacy Bingo is not only a game; it’s a taxonomy for identifying fallacies, i.e. getting past the bullshit. A research project, Ideation to Actuality, compared the scientific and creative process, in order to provide guidance for more effective collaborations between STEM and Creative professionals.

 For six years, Ingram co-hosted and co-organized the Empiricist League, a Brooklyn-based science cabaret, dubbed "ad-hoc, small-scale TED Talks for scientists and the New Yorkers who adore them" by FiveThirtyEight. Ingram was a Simons Foundation Science Sandbox/New Lab Fellow in Cohort IV and instructed on creative strategy for NYU’s SHERP Entrepreneurial journalism course for four years. She teaches at Brooklyn’s Community Biotech lab, Genspace, and is a professor for SVA’s Interaction Design MFA Program.

Her work has appeared in many publications including titles from Die Gestalten (Berlin), Scientific American, Pisa University Press (Italy) and New Riders. She has written for or been covered in EdSurge, Grist, AAAS, SXSW World, BioCoder, Forbes, Digital Artist Magazine, and more. She has presented her work globally at events such as Synbiobeta (London), the AIGA (New Orleans), Flash in the Can (Toronto), Biofabricate (New York), Synberc (MIT), Open Plant (Norwich, Cambridge, UK), NYC Media Lab (NYC), me Convention (Frankfurt, Germany), SB7 (Singapore), and SXSW (Austin, TX) in addition to judging iGEM (Boston), IXDA (Rio De Janeiro), BioDesign Challenge (NYC).

Karen lives and surfs in Rockaway Beach, NY.

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