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Sunset Park Open Studios & Open House New York

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This weekend, the Brooklyn Army Terminal opens its doors for a full day of art, design, and discovery! Explore the building and visit creative spaces like Makerspace, BAT Clay Studio, CHASMA, and more — including BioBAT Art Space!

Sunset Park Open Studios
Open House NY

SENSING CHANGE FESTIVAL NYC  [re]Framing Art & Science: In the Wake of Shifting Worlds

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This event is part of Sensing Change, a citywide festival presented by Art Switch Foundation and Transparent Eyeball. This year’s edition turns its attention to how humans and non-humans sense and inhabit transformation — from ecological systems and geological upheavals to embodied forms of knowledge and cultural evolution.

The afternoon opens with a panel discussion led by Remina Greenfield, featuring Elizabeth Hénaff, Mitchell Joachim, and Tarun Nayar, exploring intersections between biology, design, and technology. It continues with a live 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 Julietta Tarraubella (Argentina/Peru).
This event is supported by the Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, Teiger Foundation, and 1014.

Living Matter, Shaping Futures

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Creating the green economy and clean-tech manufacturing practices of tomorrow will require bold collaborations among thought-leaders and innovators able to interweave biology, technology, ecology, and design. Living Matter, Shaping Futures , a group exhibition developed by The Brooklyn Army Terminal and BioBAT Art Space, which opens September 26th, offers a fascinating window into the work of artists and engineers working at this complex creative vanguard.

Presented in celebration of Climate Week NYC 2025 and the launch of BATWorks, NYCEDC’s clean-tech and climate innovation hub at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, Living Matter, Shaping Futures invites visitors to imagine new material frontiers and multispecies perspectives that might redefine how we manufacture and design for the future.

As ecological pressures and shifting global climate patterns force us to reimagine the systems through which we define and design human societies, the exhibition illuminates the interdependence of all living systems and presents a hopeful vision for the future — one where resilience, reciprocity, and ecological intelligence inform culture, and critical technologies are integrated with the web of life.

The works of art and design innovation collected in this show expand the limits of human-centered design by recognizing cognition, agency, and creativity across nonhuman species, microbial networks, and technological ecologies. As author James Bridle suggests, intelligence emerges not from individual dominance but through collaboration, interrelation, and adaptive responsiveness. The exhibition calls on us to listen closely to these broader networks of planetary knowledge.

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Soft Genes 006: Life in the Toolkit

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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 in an evening of exploration and connection, featuring a conversation with Shelby Newsad, building new visions for bio and health, and Heather Dewey-Hagborg, information artist and bio-hacker, moderated by Christina Agapakis exploring the aesthetic and material intersection these questions raise. 

​Doors: 6:30 pm
​Panel discussion: 7:00 - 7:45 pm
​Hang: 7:45 - 9:30 pm

​Christina Agapakis is an extremely interdisciplinary synthetic biologist working to build more creative and human futures for biotechnology. She is the founder of Oscillator, a design agency telling new stories at the intersection of life science and technology, and a guest curator for an upcoming show at BioBAT Art Space. 

​Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a New York-based artist and biohacker who is interested in art as research and technological critique. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair, cigarette butts, chewed up gum) collected in public places.
​Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, the Daejeon Biennale, the Guangzhou Triennial, and the Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale, Transmediale, the Walker Center for Contemporary Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and PS1 MoMA.

​Shelby Newsad is committed to facilitating step-change technologies in bio and health. Before investing at Compound, they’ve worked as a bioscience researcher across plant sciences (PhD, University of Cambridge), neuroscience (National Institutes of Health), and drug discovery (Helmholtz Institute). As a former researcher and technologist at heart, Shelby loves getting deep into the tech with founders and has >20 active bio and health theses. 

​SeedAi is s a non-profit organization that works at the forefront of artificial intelligence policy and governance, collaborating with policymakers, scientists, academics, and the private sector to design policies, programs, and tools.

​Soft Genes is an LA-based research community that connects overlapping worlds in art, academia, and industry to enable creative practice that centers biology via interdisciplinary collaboration. Through sharing materials and skills, we aim to enable work that eschews the boundaries of "art" and "science”.

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CLOSED For August

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BioBAT Art Space will be closed for the month of August.

-Feel free to reach out with any questions at info@biobatartspace.com

-pHen: ADAPTIVE HUES & CIRCULAR FUTURES reopens September 6th