Leonardo LASER Talks Linz: Lab Songs Vol. II – Mycelium Labs
Sepember 5, 2025
University of Arts Linz, Austria
Roundtable organized by the Department of Interface Cultures as part of the Ars Electronica 2025
Scientific and artistic breakthroughs arise not only from discoveries but also from transformations in practices, methodologies, and systems of evaluation. Once defined by rigour and controlled experimentation, laboratories are now reimagined across disciplines as spaces where different forms of knowledge production (aesthetic, technological, ecological, theoretical) come into proximity, often under conditions of friction, ambiguity, or indeterminacy.
This Leonardo LASER Talk event convenes artists and scientists working with mycelium and other living matter to present their research and open a dialogue on intersecting goals, infrastructural needs, shared and diverging agendas. Together, we will explore these laboratories as heterotopic spaces, capable of generating new collective practices and futures.
PROGRAM
Sarah Kolb (AT) - Department of Art History and Art Theory/Kunstuniversität Linz
Magdalena Breitwieser (AT) - Soft Matter Physics/Institute of Experimental Physics/JKU
Jitka Effenberger (AT) - Soft Matter Physics/Institute of Experimental Physics/JKU
Julia Moser (AT) - Department Design & Technology/Crafting Futures Lab/Kunstuniversität Linz
Noor Stenfert Kroese (NL) - Creative Robotics/Kunstuniversität Linz
Fabricio Lamoncha (ES) - Interface Cultures/Kunstuniversität Linz (host)