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Dr. Marc R. Dusseiller is a transdisciplinary workshopologist, lecturer, cultural facilitator and artist. He performs DIY (do-it-yourself) workshops in lo-fi electronics and synths, open hardware for citizen science, bioart / biohacking and DIY microscopy. He was co-organizing Dock18, diy* festival and poolloop (Zürich, Switzerland), KIBLIX 2011 (Maribor, Slovenia), workshops for artists, schools and children (2008-now) as founding member of the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society, SGMK and is the co-founder of the Hackerspace Collective Bitwäscherei (2020). He has worked as guest faculty and mentor at various schools, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IN), UCSB (USA) and in Switzerland, FHNW, ZhdK, HEAD, HSLU, ETHZ. In collaboration with Kapelica Gallery, he has started the BioTehna Lab in Ljubljana (2012 - 2013), an open platform for interdisciplinary and artistic research on life sciences. Currently, he is developing means to perform bio- and nanotechnology research and dissemination, Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art, in a DIY / DIWO fashion in kitchens, ateliers and in the Majority World. He is part of the Center for Alternative Coconut Research developing low-cost educational open hardware. He was the co-organizer of the different editions of HackteriaLab 2010 - now in Zürich, Romainmotier, Bangalore, Yogyakarta, Klöntal and Okinawa and collaborated on the organisation of the BioFabbing Convergence, 2017, in Geneva, and the Gathering for Open Science Hardware 2016 in Geneva, 2018 in Shenzhen & 2026 in Bali, and organized international residencies and research collaborations in Zürich 2020-2024, Yogyakarta 2019-2023 and Chiang Mai 2024.

Helmi Hardian is a grassroots artist and ghetto scientist, with a specific interest in cooking and smoking at the same time. He lives in Surabaya, the city that is well known for its industry and technology, as well as being the center of electronic component trading (chiefly, Pasar Genteng). Hence, almost all of his works are closely related to science and technology as the medium of creativity. He is the co-founder of Waft Lab, a creative-based initiative that works at interdisciplinary practices. Currently, he focuses on tech development through DIY/DIWO culture and playing his role in researching, hacking, or deconstructing daily materials to provide some devices with new functional aspects, as well as developing workshop kits, lecturing contents, and presentation materials, which aim to learn, share, and exchange knowledge.