Karolina Sobecka

POLITICS OF THE MACHINES – ART AND AFTER EVA-Copenhagen 15-17 May 2018 I will be speaking in the Machines of the Atmospheres stream, along a lot of amazing artists and … Continue readingPolitics of the Machines

Image above: “Bhaktii, Path of Sants, Shiva Temple, Hampi,” Karen Knorr, 2012 Ethics, Excess, Extinction is an exhibition exploring the reality of endangered species and humanity’s responsibility to protect them. … Continue readingEthics, Excess, Extinction

The final project for the SVA Interaction Design course I co-teach with Chris Woebken this semester is going to be a workshop at the Queens Museum. Sunday, Dec 3rd, 2-5pm. … Continue readingWeather World’s Fair 2064

I will be co-convening a panel at the Climate Engineering Conference. Climate Engineering Conference 2017 (CEC17): Critical Global Discussions Berlin, October 9 – 12, 2017 “Climate engineering is an increasingly … Continue readingClimate Engineering Conference, 2017

I will be taking part in Transpositions: From science to art (and back) which is the final research event of the project Transpositions: Artistic Data Exploration. I will be presenting … Continue readingTranspositions: From science to art (and back)

A Working Model of the World opens on Thursday 28 September 6-8pm. My project A memory, an ideal, a proposition is featured in the exhibition and I’m doing Cloud Tasting … Continue readingA Working Model of the World

Talking about this in-progress project at Lacuna Lab, July 9th 7pm.   Science Salon #002 // Artist talk – Karolina Sobecka Jul 9, 2017 Owning the weather in 2020 Defining … Continue readingOwning the Weather in 2020

I’m prototyping Super Bestiary at the follow up to the crispr.kitchen event. Fablab, Berlin. July 7th, 8pm.

What can be gained by reframing our environments and examining social relationships anew? How can this introspection affect our experiences in virtual worlds? I’m teaching this course with Chris Sugrue … Continue readingCloser: teaching VR at School of Machines, Making and Make-believe

Excited for this iteration of presenting Cloud Services at Pareidolia curated by Dehlia Hannah. From the exhibition announcement (here in full): “Pareidolia is an art exhibition commissioned for the 4th … Continue readingPareidolia

Environmental Remediations is a second day of the Decolonizing the Anthropocene workshop conceptualized and organized by Maya Kóvskaya. This day of screenings and discussions explores prospects for remedying deleterious environmental … Continue readingDecolonizing the Anthropocene: Intersectional Knowledges for Ecological Justice

17.05.2017 – 31.05.2017 I’ll be in Madrid for a few weeks for Interactivos? at the Medialab Prado. This time in the role of a mentor (in 08 I was one … Continue readingInteractivos?’17 – Re-imagining movement in the city: citizen science for a sustainable present

10-14 of May, 2017 Really happy to participate in BioFabbing Convergence, a meeting of diybio practitioners and academics. “BioFabbing Convergence: Fabrications and Fabulations is an open event on the 10-14 … Continue readingBioFabbing at Cern

Wednesday, May 10 at 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Super glad to be part of this conversation on networks for the second meeting of Weedy Resistance. *6:30: join us at … Continue readingWeedy Resistance: Networks

Apr 30, 2017, 5:00pm – 7:30pm. Really happy to be part of this conversation with wonderful panelists. Gaia Summit is a panel series which brings together participants from various disciplines … Continue readingGaia summit

??April 9 2017 – August 27 2017 I have a new project in this exhibition of the Studio Program at the Queens Museum. The project is titled A memory, an … Continue readingNine: 2017 Queens Museum Studio Program Exhibition

Off to Munich to take part in crispr.kitchen: a retreat organized by KIT ITAS, Institute for Technology Assessment. “In the retreat (Klausurwoche 13-17th march 2017) we, KIT-ITAS, were looking for … Continue readingcrispr.kitchen

Cloud Services is featured at Emerge, a festival of the Futures at ASU. “EMERGE is an annual transmedia art, science and technology festival designed to engage diverse publics in the … Continue readingCloud Services at Emerge

Saturday, January 28th. 1-6pm. I will be on the Art As Service panel at the CUE Art Foundation presented in conjunction with the group exhibition, The Visible Hand, curated by … Continue readingArt As Service

My project Last Clouds was part of Eyebeam’s hackshop. The screenshots of the found clouds are posted to a tumblr. If you would like to name or dedicate a cloud, … Continue readingGifting Last Clouds

18 Nov 2016 – 21 May 2017 My project Medusa FPS is part of the Monsters of the Machine exhibition at Laboral Centro de Arte. Exhibition is curated by Furtherfield’s … Continue readingMonsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in 21st century

A Year Without a Winter: Fictions and Policy, EU Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy, 17-18 November 2016. A Year Without A Winter: Fictions and Policy Inspirational Workshop Series – organised … Continue readingFictions and Policy

I will be a Studio Resident at the Queens Museum. Here‘s a little more information about that program and the other residents.

I will be a resident at Eyebeam this year, along with Morehshin Allahyari, Nora N. Khan, Mimi Onuoha, and Macon Reed. You can read more about them all here.

July 7th, I’ll be talking to Colin McEnroe on his NPR show. This program is about clouds, with Gavin Pretor-Pinney – Founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society, author of The … Continue readingWNPR: A Nerding Out About Clouds

I’ll be speaking on a panel on civic society engagement with science at the SYNENERGENE Forum “Synthetic Biology – visions of the future.” June 24th and 25th, NEMO center in … Continue readingSynenergene forum on synthetic biology

A preview of the Cloud Services as an anticipatory governance meeting and cocktails will be part of Emergent Ecologies exhibition / series of events at Klory Metal Ceiling in Brooklyn, … Continue readingCloud Services release and New York Emergence

Clouds From Both Sides are in the Weather Or Not exhibition at the MU art space in Eindhoven, Netherlands from May 26th, 2016. While a satellite passes over our location … Continue readingWeather Or Not

I’m really happy to be part of the Anthropocene curriculum: the Technosphere campus in Berlin. Looking forward to meeting so many brilliant people and participating in the seminars. In an … Continue readingAnthropocene curriculum: the Technosphere Campus

Two new projects in the form of workshops, How To Watch The Sky and Nowheres were presented in Lima, Peru for the New Realities programming with Telefonica Foundation.

Presented in collaboration with Espacio Fundacion Telefonica in Lima, New Realities?is a touring project which aims to explore the relationship between technology, human behaviour and future identities, and how the … Continue readingNew Realities, Peru

All the Universe is Full of the Lives of Perfect Creatures is in the Extra Fantômes exhibition through July 31, 2016 at La Gaîté lyrique, Paris, France.

In September, Transitio Festival brings Picture Sky to Mexico City for an exhibition curated by Monica Bello and including some wonderful projects from Lisa Ma, boredomresearch, Paolo Cirio, Jason Rohrer … Continue readingPicture Sky in Mexico City

Picture Sky is part of the GLOBALE: Infosphere exhibition at ZKM. The theme of the exibition is quite aligned with many of the ideas I’ve been working with in the … Continue readingInfosphere at ZKM

Between July and August I’m at the Ars Bioarctica Residency in the Finnish Lapland, working on developing a new project. The residency is organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart, … Continue readingArs Bioarctica Residency

We are creating a crowdsourced picture of the sky for the Holon municipality during the Print Screen Festival, a digital arts festival in Tel Aviv. The crowdpicture is happening on … Continue readingPictureSky at Print Screen

Puff is part of the exhibition titled Breathe in Geneva. “BREATHE – an exhibition by visual and multi-media artists working at the intersection of the visual and design arts, sciences, … Continue readingPuff in Breathe exhibition for WHO