November 12, 2019
On Saturday November 2nd, Incubator Lab sponsored a screening of the film Human Nature, directed by Adam Bolt, as a part of the Windsor International Film Festival. Human Nature explores humanity in the age of CRISPR, a targeted gene editing process with a wide variety of applications in biological research, biotechnology, and the treatment of diseases.
October 4, 2019
The workshop will consist of looking at inventing and building flow-through systems, that involve animals. insects and machines as digesters. Plants as digesters and bio-remediators through hyperaccumulation and oxygen C02 breath exchanges. Worms as digesters and inoculators in eating waste, sterilizing soil and passing fertilizer. Humans as remediators in both creating and recycling plastic waste and consumer junk. Discarded goods will be used in the creation of vertical gardens. Peristaltic pumps and Arduino timing circuits will be used with grow lights, LEDs and buttons. Some fungi such as Glomus mosseae and plants can function as hyper accumulators and can absorb heavy metals, solvents and hydrocarbons. […]
October 3, 2019
CRISPR refers to a range of novel gene editing systems which can be programmed to edit DNA at precise locations. It allows the permanent modification of the genes in cells of living organisms. CRISPR enables novel basic research and promises a wide range of possible applications from biomedicine and agriculture to environmental challenges. The previously unknown precision and simplicity of CRISPR and its possibilities has led to a wide diversity of reactions. While some welcome it as a gene editing revolution others urge for a worldwide moratorium, especially when it comes to human germline modifications. Particularly controversial is the CRISPR […]
October 2, 2019
A one-night-only cabaret to commemorate the opening of the new INCUBATOR Lab in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor
October 1, 2019
Life in the Soil is a three-day event presented by The Deep Earth Treatment Centre (DETC) featuring Interactive workshops, excursions, and participatory discussions led by artists, activists, farmers, and scholars who are each invested in the scientific, indigenous, embodied and practical knowledge about the vital nature of soils. The event aims to encourage public engagement and cross-disciplinary dialogue towards deepening our relationship with and understanding of the complexity of living soil and its importance to all life on earth. Life in the Soil will take place From March 7-9, 2017, hosted by the INCUBATOR Lab at The University of Windsor’s School of Creative Arts. Participation […]
September 30, 2019
This exhibition explores complex collaborations between human artists and other life forms towards the production of cultural expressions that explore the ecological, economic, technological, and spiritual relations possible between species in a new field called bioart.