This talk presents experiences and insights from my PhD research project METABOLOME, developed within the Futures of Living Technologies (FeLT ) - project and the Innovation for Sustainability (PINS) program at OsloMet, Norway. The research investigates how artistic and curatorial practices can critically engage with the growing tendency to quantify and systematize life, care, and emotion. The research was initiated and rooted in transdisciplinary artistic practice, anticipating an unfolding through interdisciplinary engagements and research environments - a practice still emerging in the Norwegian context. This presentation reflects on the challenges and potentials of navigating this terrain - where disciplinary boundaries, institutional structures, and ethical concerns intersects. Sharing experiences from the research process, the talk addresses how artistic practice can contest instrumental framings of the biological and open space for alternative imaginaries and critical thinking of care and affect.
Norwegian artist, curator and researcher operating at the intersection of art, technology, and biological speculation. Her practice explores how humans, machines, and metabolic systems are entangled in processes of control and commodification and care. For over two decades, her provocative, research-driven works have been exhibited internationally, from Ars Electronica to PST ART at Beall Center for Art & Technology.
Tapio is the founder and director of i/o/lab – Center for Future Art, where she curated the Article Biennale (2006–2016), a platform for unstable art and critical, speculative engagements with emerging technologies. Recent curatorial work includes the exhibition Caring Futures, an inquiry to technology-mediated care and its societal implications. She has played a pivotal role in shaping the bioart discourse in Norway, cultivating a critical and process-oriented perspective. She spearheaded Norway’s first Bioart Masterclass in collaboration with SymbioticA in 2008, and contributed to the early development of the Norwegian Bioart Arena (NOBA).
Tapio is currently an associate artist for the Metabolic Art Gathering Program at Medical Museion in Copenhagen, and a contributing researcher with the Futures of Living Technologies (FeLT) project, including PhD research in Innovation for Sustainability (PINS) program at Oslo Metropolitan University. From making her own biofuel to speculative emotion prosthetics – Tapio advocates for artistic practice and research to challenge dominant paradigms and to push the boundaries of art and science.
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