Biobat Art Space

04/05/2026

🌊WATERWORLD — OPEN CALL🌊
Applications now open → Deadline: May 31, 2026

We’re calling on artists, scientists, designers, and writers to respond.

BioBAT Art Space's Director Elena Soterakis is curating this project in partnership with EcoArtSpace and Patricia Lea Watts.

🫧 Selected works will be part of a Waterworld Field Guide—a publication and platform connecting over 100 practitioners working at the intersection of art, science, and water.

Application Portal: https://form.jotform.com/260465729176163

Water is no longer a future crisis—it’s a present reality.
From microplastics in our bodies to collapsing aquifers and rising seas, we are living in a moment of global water bankruptcy.

This open call seeks works that:
– Make the invisible visible
– Confront water scarcity + contamination
– Imagine new futures + radical solutions
– Engage communities + ecosystems

💧 Visual, sound, performative works
💧 Essays, poetry, speculative texts
💧 Real-world + visionary proposals

Exhibition + book launch: Fall 2027

Let’s rethink our relationship to water—before it’s too late.
Background image: Krista Leigh Steinke, Lifeline (video still), 2021

04/04/2026

Art & Science Mixer returns! Join BioBAT, Biodesign Challenge & Genspace at Union Hall for a night of bioart, design, and cross-disciplinary connection.

Join like minds at the intersection of biology, art, and design at this Union Hall social on Thursday, April 16 from 6:30–9:30 PM.

🔗 Registration Link
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-science-mixer-tickets-1986100486018?aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail&ref=eemail&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite.

We do have a limited number of slots, so register now!

Following the energy and connections sparked at our last gathering, BioBAT Art Space, Biodesign Challenge, and Genspace are coming together again for another evening of conversation, exchange, and community.

This laid-back mixer brings together NYC’s artists, scientists, designers, and thinkers working across living systems and creative practice.

Whether you're a researcher, artist, designer, student, educator (or simply curious), this is a space to connect with others exploring the porous boundaries between science, art, and culture.

Expect familiar faces, new connections, and conversations that spill across disciplines.

All are welcome!

Image Credit:

10/10/2025

10/07/2025

Mitchell Joachim, PhD, Assoc. AIA, is Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and Professor of Practice at NYU, where he also served as University Senator and Co-Chair of Global Design NYU. A TED Senior Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, he has worked with Frank Gehry, Moshe Safdie, and I.M. Pei, and received major honors including the NEA Grant for Arts Projects, AIA New York Urban Design Award, LafargeHolcim Prize, Architizer A+ Award, and Time Magazine Best Invention with MIT Smart Cities. Named in Rolling Stone’s “100 People Changing America” and Wired’s “Smart List,” his work has been exhibited internationally at MoMA, MASS MoCA, DAZ Berlin, and the Venice Biennale. He is the author of Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities and three other books, and has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Pratt, Cornell, and as the Frank Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto. Joachim holds degrees from MIT, Harvard, Columbia, and Buffalo.

Adaptive Bodies – Plant, Fungal, and Human Perceptions of Change
SENSING CHANGE FESTIVAL NYC
[re]Framing Art & Science: In the Wake of Shifting Worlds

Join us this Saturday, Oct 11th, at 1PM for an afternoon at BioBAT Art Space, where we enter the botanical and fungal worlds — territories where life listens, responds, and reconfigures itself.

1PM: Panel discussion led by Remina Greenfield, with speakers Elizabeth Hénaff, Mitchell Joachim, and Tarun Nayar exploring intersections between biology, design, and technology.

2PM: Reception and Connections

3PM: Performance by Sabina Hyoju Ahn , who will present DIY Bionoise — an instrument that transforms the body’s own bio-signals into waves of sound and noise.

The event will feature a screening program curated for Sensing Change, presenting video works by Krystof Bruha(Czech Republic), Joshua Dawson (USA), Kordae Jatafa Henry (USA), Jonah King (Ireland/USA), and Julieta Tarraubella (Argentina/Peru).

🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/festival-program-oct-4-18-in-nyc-4693943?fbclid=IwY2xjawNSBNNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE2ZTVNMmlqOHNoUjI4ckNuAR5Xw-e5nG9Hro6HyccXWA-LkTPd8McwNCK_15pAnQipozTrFs3u5N05LXVUfA_aem_mOdwxM06igp-wIT7iwWNiw

💚 Supported by:

10/07/2025

Adaptive Bodies – Plant, Fungal, and Human Perceptions of Change

SENSING CHANGE* FESTIVAL NYC

[re]Framing Art & Science: In the Wake of Shifting Worlds

Join us this Saturday Oct 11 at 1PM for an afternoon at BioBAT Art Space, where we enter the botanical and fungal worlds — territories where life listens, responds, and reconfigures itself.

How do plants and mushrooms perceive rhythm and disturbance? How do they adapt, regenerate, and signal transformation? And how might we, as humans, learn to sense the pulse of the more-than-human world that surrounds and inhabits us? Through architecture, music, science, and visual art, this event invites us to tune into the intelligence of living systems.

1PM: Panel discussion led by Remina Greenfield, with speakers Elizabeth Hénaff, Mitchell Joachim, and Tarun Nayar exploring intersections between biology, design, and technology.

2PM: Reception and Connections

3PM: Performance by Sabina Hyoju Ahn, who will present DIY Bionoise — an instrument that transforms the body’s own bio-signals into waves of sound and noise.

The event will feature a screening program curated for Sensing Change, presenting video works by Krystof Bruha(Czech Republic), Joshua Dawson (USA), Kordae Jatafa Henry (USA), Jonah King (Ireland/USA), and Julieta Tarraubella (Argentina/Peru).

🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/festival-program-oct-4-18-in-nyc-4693943

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09/26/2025

We're looking forward to celebrating NYC Climate Week and the opening reception of "Living Matter, Shaping Futures" this evening from 6-8pm.

*PLEASE NOTE* Our reception is taking place in the main Lobby of building A on not in the our main gallery.

RSVP HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1723748170179?aff=oddtdtcreator

09/21/2025

Join us this Friday, September 26th, from 6-8 pm to celebrate the opening of our latest exhibition!

Living Matter, Shaping Futures brings together a dynamic group of artists and researchers whose practices bridge biology and technology.

09/18/2025

Last Week at Biobat Art Space, we gathered with Soft Genes and SeedAI for a fascinating dialogue featuring:

🌱 Shelby Newsad — building new visions for bio and health
🧬 Heather Dewey-Hagborg — artist + biohacker pushing the edges of biopolitics and technology
🎙 Moderated by Christina Agapakis, synthetic biologist and upcoming BioBAT guest curator.

A huge thank you to Christina for traveling from Boston and being such an incredible moderator and synthesizer of ideas. 🙏 This is only the first of many more conversations to come as we build toward our Fall 2026 exhibition on synthetic biology and AI, curated by Christina at BioBAT.

Thank you, Olivia Stern of Soft Genes for traveling from LA, and Anna Rulloda, for being powerhouse organizers!

For more info about the event: https://luma.com/s3ii5tym
📍 Location: Brooklyn Army Terminal

09/18/2025

🌱 Living Matter, Shaping Futures- Opening Reception, Friday, September 26th, at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, Lobby of Building A.

In celebration of NYCEDC’s climate and circular economy initiatives at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, Living Matter, Shaping Futures brings together artists and researchers whose practices bridge biology, technology, and design to imagine how new material frontiers and multispecies perspectives might redefine the future.

Join us for an evening of art, conversation, and community inside the Brooklyn Army Terminal. Be among the first to experience immersive installations that expand how we think about resilience, reciprocity, and ecological intelligence.

Exhibiting Artists:
Antía Iglesia Fernández (), Danielle Parsons (), Fiona Bell (), Lolo Ostia () and Peter Yeadon ().

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Curated by
Elena Soterakis ()

Special thanks to:
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09/10/2025

✨ Tonight at BioBAT Art Space ✨

How is the concept of life reimagined with our current and future generative tools—in vitro and in silico?

Join Soft Genes, SeedAI, and BioBAT Art Space for an evening of exploration and conversation at the intersection of art, science, and technology.

Featuring Christina Agapakis, an interdisciplinary synthetic biologist and founder of Oscillator; Heather Dewey-Hagborg, an artist and biohacker known for projects like Stranger Visions; and Shelby Newsad, a bioscience researcher and investor shaping the future of bio and health innovation.

Wednesday, September 10
BioBAT Art Space,
Brooklyn Army Terminal, Building A
2nd Fl. Art Studios

Doors open at 6:30 pm
Panel 7:00–7:45 pm
Community hang 7:45–9:30 pm

This evening will open up new ways of thinking about life, creativity, and technology—don’t miss it!

RSVP here: [https://luma.com/s3ii5tym]

07/22/2025

🚀 SUNY Downstate EHC Hackathon 2025, at BioBAT’s, second fl., artist studio workspace. Students explored where science, tech, and art collide. Meet the next generation of biotech innovators! 💡🔬✨