Laboratorium

Laboratorium is the experimental lab for art/design and biotechnology at KASK / School of Arts Ghent. As a biolab in art and design it focuses on exploring different interactions between art, science and technology.

If you are interested in participating or using our facilities, send us an email to info@laboratorium.bio



Ecology of Colour

Inspired by living creatures who’s colours derive from pigments and structures, Ecology of colour focuses on the reproduction of biological nanostructures as a colouring material.



Colourlab

The Colourlab was the first project focused on new ways of approaching the colour field.

Starting from traditional colouring, to living organisms or waste, this project aimed to reflect about the possibilities of new pigment sources, and the implications involved.

Projects

Laboratorium develops projects in collaboration with artists and scientists applying the research from the color biolab project.

The Ink Project by Greta Facchinato

The Ink Project - Between Craft and Technology by Greta Facchinato is an innovative research delving into the convergence of ecology …


Penplotting with microalgae

We had the pleasure to have Laura Freixas from ELISAVA as an intern. She researched different methods of penplotting in …


BOREAL

LABOBRATORI notebooks: Boreal Each one is unique. Some of the colours used to paint the cover are microalgae pigments derived …


Microalgae pigments

In collaboration with Elias Heuninck responsible for FORMLAB we created colored 3D printer filament from microalgae pigments. Phycocyanin, phycoerythrin, and …


Ressurected Object

In this work of the artist Jerry Galle, mycelium is growing inside of a PLA sculture printed by FORMLAB. The …


Neochromologism.io

Neochromologism.io is an ongoing artistic website that aims to reflect about the color vocabulary that we are using in …


SEBUM

SEBUM, Brenda Lou Schaub in collaboration with Moussa Cheniguel, Quentin Lamouroux and Florian Ortega

Sebum is the fat we can …


Activities

Laboratorium organises workshops, lectures and participates in the academic programme of KASK within the topics as colors, biomaterials, Art+­Science and DIYbio. Here you can find info of the previous activities organised as well as a list of the upcoming events.

Hack The Lab

The Open BioLab Brussels and Laboratorium are two biological laboratories respectively located in a scientific (biomedical laboratory sciences) and artistic …