About
scient(art)ist
Contact for Details
Laura Elidedt Rodriguez
28/02/1991
Mexican
Instagram: laura.sciart
Awards
2023 Shortlisted Bioart and Design Award, NL
2020 Winner Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize Category: Art and Science, RU
Exhibitions
2023 Mind the Textile, Central Library of Rotterdam, NL.
2023 Fungi Entanglement, Saint Petersburg, RU.
2023 Where are you Thetys? Almaty, KZ.
2022 Part of the whole, Albert Van Abbe huis. Eindhoven, NL.
2022 Coexistentes, LA RESIDENCIA GALLERY. Award Adquisition Playa del Carmen, MX.
2022 Paranature Marina Gisich Gallery. Saint Petersburg, RU.
2021 Kuryokhin Prize Showcase, Saint Petersburg, RU.
2021 Bioart. AIR Gallery, Saint Petersburg RU.
2020 Pangardenia. Ars Electronica. Online, Linz AT
2020 Access modes. AIR Gallery. Saint Petersburg, RU.
2020 VIVUS DOMUS Art.Nunc. Saint Petersburg RU.
2019 Reunion Festival.Saint Petersburg State University. Biocad, RU.
2019 Oratorium. Saint Peterburg, RU.
Curator
Co-curator- Staying with trouble March 2021. AIR Gallery ITMO University
Curator- Bioart Showcase January 2021
Co-curator- Pangardenia September 2020. Ars Electronica Saint Petersburg
Research
2012 Vaccines expressed in plants
2018 Small proteins with antibacterial effect. (Trojan-horse like mechanism)
2020 Skin posthuman design
2021 Tissue decellularization
A configuration of cells and proteins experiencing humanity.
Bio
Laura Elidedt is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist based in The Netherlands. Laura has a Bachelor’s in biotechnology engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico, a Master’s in Molecular Biology at Skoltech Institute in Moscow, and a second Master’s Degree in Art&Science by ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Her works integrate living systems and new media tools to reveal hidden connections, empathy, and kinship between species. She has worked as a curator and academic master curator, in her career Laura has developed workshops on art and science for artists and the general public and she was the mentor on the Bioart Residency 2023 at YEMAA Center in Kazakhstan.
She co-curated the exhibition "Staying with the trouble" with Khristina Ots and the remote garden inside the ArsElectronica Festival with KUR Future_Lab at AIR Gallery (RU). Her artworks integrate Mexican folklore and posthuman philosophies with the new media of science and speculative design. She was awarded the Kuryokhin prize in the Art&Science category in 2021 and currently works independently as an artist in The Netherlands
Education
Master Program Art&Science ITMO RUSSIA
(2018- 2020)
Master Program in Molecular biology SKOLTECH RUSSIA (2016- 2018)
BSc Biotechnology Engineering. IPN MEXICO
(2010-2015)
Work Experience
2023 Residency Mentor in the Bioart program at YEMAA Center. Research Topic: water. The result was presented in a final exhibition.
(2019- now) Teacher in diverse theoretical and practical courses of biological art. ITMO University.
(2021- 2022) Educational curator in the program of Art&Science.
Grants and Continuos education
2023 Residency at The Digital Flying Carpet project by Women Connected (WOCO) in collaboration with V2_Lab for the unstable media, Rotterdam.
2023 Science & Art Summer School Program Science Gallery Rotterdam : Organ Transplantation. Attendee of selected group for the Summer School at Erasmus Medical Center
2023 TTTlabs- New Repro-Rebirthing Retreat (NR-RR) Participant as a TTTseers BioFeral.BeachCamp (BFBC)
2022 ASH MA: Art, Science and Health Master of Arts - Attendee on the Online Pilot Course
2022 FONCA FUND in collaboration with CIBNOR, MX
2021 HG/HL Makers Exchange Collaboration with Lyndsey Walsh for animal tissue decellularization, Funded by Fab Lab Barcelona
Talks, workshops and provided courses
2020 and 2023 Biosummit- MIT Media Lab. Online talk on
Biomaterials in contemporary art.
2021 ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts
Panelist on Art, Science and the Invisible World We Live
2019 XV Higher Education and its Perspectives. Cuba.Art and Science collaborations as an effective educational system. Poster presentation
2023 Workshop Ghost plants
2021 Online workshop from Biology to AR
2021 Decolonizing Death. Removal of cells from plants and organs to create Alebrijes
2020 Dinner Degustation of DNA
2020 Migrant Physarum Workshop
2023 Speculative Design
Online course in digital and speculative design linking biomaterials and biological research. Level: Master and Bachelor
2022 Introduction to BioArt
In person course for ITMO University, theory and history of BioArt. Second iteration as Online course designed for Art for Introvert educational website. Level: Bachelor and general public
2021 Interespecies connections
A series of experiments with DNA cloning, electrophoresis, genetically modified bacteria and growing of bacterial cellulose. Basic concepts of Art and Science and strategies of collaborations between scientists and artists. Level: Master and Bachelor
2020 Biomedia
A series of experiments working with vegetal tissue and cloning of plants, genetically modified spider silk and bacterial culture, Based on posthuman philosophies. Level: Master and Bachelor