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Mutante is an arts and life sciences laboratory in which we investigate, create, and share knowledge around emerging digital and bio media. 

About us

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Creation Group Other [tiny] forms of life at La Redada Bogotá

CONTACT

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mutante.laboratorio@gmail.com

+57 319 3856289
Bogotá, Colombia

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Mutante

Mutante is an arts and life sciences laboratory in which we investigate, create, and share knowledge around emerging digital and bio media. Our creative work standing in the undisciplined, open, collaborative, and communitarian explores new/other understandings of the living and of technologies, through alternative, living, adaptative, mutant, and interspecies processes. We open encounter spaces, courses, workshops, and laboratories to promote and enable collaborative creation at different scales.

 

Our work began in 2012 in Bogota, Colombia. Since then we have collaborated with diverse creatives, collectives, and organizations to create the ecosystem that Mutante laboratory is today, among them the microbiology and biotechnology laboratory CorpoGen (Bogotá) since 2017, and in 2019 we connected to Cuántico (Vienna) and ORIGIN@CERN (Geneva), with whom we co-created the Suratómica Network. In 2017 we created the Research Group "Creation - Art and Science" and more recently we have opened The Mutante Space, a hybrid space for experimental education.  


Among our art and science projects there are: Bi0film.net, winner of the Golden Nica Award 2022, Hyperconnected Bacteria based on the research Queer Forms of Life - Interconnected Nature developed at the New Media Class of the Berlin University of the Arts in 2022, and the Suratómica Residency at CERN Laboratories in 2019. At a local scale, the creation groups Other [tiny] forms of life (2022), and various interconnected interactive narratives such as Expanded Bestiary (2019-2021) and The extraordinary and implausible adventures of Biófilo Panclasta (2019).

RESEARCH/CREATE in mutante

Natalia Rivera

Emerging digital and bio media

Natalia Rivera works with emergent bio and digital media, currently exploring the possibilities of digital technologies as symbiotic media for living entities and the creation of bio-digital interfaces. In the context of indeterminate/queer knowledge creation, their processes are undisciplined, open, collective, and collaborative, through the Mutante laboratory (Bogotá) and the global Suratómica Network for creation - art and science.

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Juan Diego Rivera

Expanded and experimental filmmaker

Undisciplined artist, with studies in filmmaking and philosophy. They have been working in the artistic creation laboratory Mutante for almost a decade, where they have developed several projects with experimental media and expanded cinema narratives. From spaces such as the Suratómica Network or the Enjambre Interzone they have collaborated in the promotion and production of creative, critical, cultural, and resistance spaces.

Margarita González

Margarita González

Designer and cultural promoter

She explores interdisciplinary processes that strengthen diverse sociocultural dynamics. She has experience in research, management and cultural production and innovation. She has extensive knowledge in cultural heritage and has developed numerous projects of artistic intervention in public space.

COLABORADORXS

Carlos Acosta

Carlos Acosta Yaver

Architect and researcher in complexity sciences

Architect Designer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with emphasis in Aesthetics and Biodigital Architecture. Researcher in self-organization for the computational design of biocomputational architecture, evolutionary landscapes, habitats and artificial ecosystems through swarm intelligences and technological tools of various interfaces and sensors. Creator of Hifa Studio with emphasis on the exploration of new materialities.

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Juan Felipe Fernández

Music producer

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Manuel Orellana Sandoval

Artist and educator

Manuel has a M.A. in Media Arts from the University of Chile and a degree in teaching from the Pedagogical School of Santiago de Chile. He is a visual and sound artist. Member of Laboratorio de Medios LaMe, part of the project Ensamble Aleatorio, Lo Ulterior and the collective KKCK and more. His work is situated in different areas among them, the creation of objects through techniques such as circuit bending, creative cacharreo, sound recording, painting, gluing, color and the crossing of artistic disciplines mediated with technological trial and error.

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Manuel Orellana Sandoval

Artist and educator

Manuel has a M.A. in Media Arts from the University of Chile and a degree in teaching from the Pedagogical School of Santiago de Chile. He is a visual and sound artist. Member of Laboratorio de Medios LaMe, part of the project Ensamble Aleatorio, Lo Ulterior and the collective KKCK and more. His work is situated in different areas among them, the creation of objects through techniques such as circuit bending, creative cacharreo, sound recording, painting, gluing, color and the crossing of artistic disciplines mediated with technological trial and error.

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daniela brill estrada

Artist and researcher

daniela brill estrada is a visual artist from Bogotá. Daniela's creative processes are nurtured by her interest in complexity sciences, aesthetics, and non-hierarchical structures of knowledge, and are based on the idea of un-discipline, built with the Suratómica Network, of which she is co-organizer.

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Manuel Orellana Sandoval

Artist and educator

Manuel has a M.A. in Media Arts from the University of Chile and a degree in teaching from the Pedagogical School of Santiago de Chile. He is a visual and sound artist. Member of Laboratorio de Medios LaMe, part of the project Ensamble Aleatorio, Lo Ulterior and the collective KKCK and more. His work is situated in different areas among them, the creation of objects through techniques such as circuit bending, creative cacharreo, sound recording, painting, gluing, color and the crossing of artistic disciplines mediated with technological trial and error.

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Pablo Quiroga

Artist and illustrator

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Manuel Orellana Sandoval

Artist and educator

Manuel has a M.A. in Media Arts from the University of Chile and a degree in teaching from the Pedagogical School of Santiago de Chile. He is a visual and sound artist. Member of Laboratorio de Medios LaMe, part of the project Ensamble Aleatorio, Lo Ulterior and the collective KKCK and more. His work is situated in different areas among them, the creation of objects through techniques such as circuit bending, creative cacharreo, sound recording, painting, gluing, color and the crossing of artistic disciplines mediated with technological trial and error.

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Manuel Orellana Sandoval

Artist and educator

Manuel has a M.A. in Media Arts from the University of Chile and a degree in teaching from the Pedagogical School of Santiago de Chile. He is a visual and sound artist. Member of Laboratorio de Medios LaMe, part of the project Ensamble Aleatorio, Lo Ulterior and the collective KKCK and more. His work is situated in different areas among them, the creation of objects through techniques such as circuit bending, creative cacharreo, sound recording, painting, gluing, color and the crossing of artistic disciplines mediated with technological trial and error.

FABULATIONS OF THE LIVING

We explore and experiment with the worlding power of fabulations - scientific, fictional, political, social - and the possibilities that emerge when deconstructed or re-invented. That is our creative practice, through emerging digital and bio media, interconnected narratives, and interactive installations. We are currently exploring the possibilities of emerging comprehensions of the Living, from life sciences, philosophy of biology, evolutionary theory, cyborg ideas, and new media/digital technologies, to co-create new/other fabulations with other living and considered non-living entities, that allow us to transform our relations with nature, of which we are a part.

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Our collaborative-, collective-, and communitarian-based processes emerge out of our local social and political context in which we have learned that collaborative processes are not focused on results (on productivity); much more, they are a way, an excuse, to get together, co-exist, re-exist, resist and bring degrees of freedom to our  surroundings. A context where it becomes evident that individual creation and existence are nothing but a bad myth.  We have co-created and currently co-organize the Suratómica Network for art and science, which expanded globally to interconnect diverse communities, creatives, and organizations, and to promote their encounters and collaborations. Encounters through which our unconventional research-creation practices have also evolved.

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We enjoy being part of and want to contribute to the growing biocentric turn to overcome the anthropocentrism-generated crisis. A turn in which many are creating other ways to inhabit and coexist in the ongoing present. We co-create with diverse communities and share these processes to open space for other emerging ideas. We aim for acratic (non-control-based) creative practices, because to create as living organisms is not to give a solution, but to generate the contexts for possibilities to emerge in diversity. Our approach to art and science proposes un-disciplined creative processes to indeterminate/queer our existences as- and relations to- nature.

Note on Projects: 

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On this website are published diverse projects created by the Mutante group, formed at different times by different creatives, and Mutante Laboratorio S.A.S. as a cultural entity. The credits of each project are mentioned on the project's web page. 

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Note about the Blog:

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The blog of this website is our documentation and archive space. Posts of previous events are made with the date of their execution, to facilitate organization and navigation.

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Licensing:

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Most of our projects and resources are licensed under Creative Commons. All the resources included in this website that are under this license have the specific information of it. All other resources are property of their authors and require permission for their use in spaces other than this website.

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