BioHTP 2016 was awesome! We had over 100 attendees and many many great talks that you can find online here
BioHTP 2016 Friday Night
BioHTP 2016 Saturday
BioHTP 2017 is fast approaching so if you want to give a talk apply now: https://goo.gl/forms/rX7vJa13Prh4Vv523
L to R: “Particle Fever” director Mark Levinson with David, Kate, and Jason at the Tribeca Film Festival
Structure Films is the collaborative documentary filmmaking duo of David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg, who met in Stanford’s Documentary Film and Video Production MFA program. From their bio:
“Structure Films makes films about people doing cool S.H.I.T– science, health, information and technology. We strongly believe that cinematic storytelling can revolutionize science communication and engage the public with the awesome responsibility that comes with the scientific enterprise.
Our films have screened in major international festivals including South by Southwest, Hot Docs International, and London International Film Festival; broadcast on the BBC, TIME, and Outside Magazine; and supported by the Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, ITVS and the MacArthur Foundation.
David Alvarado is a documentary director/producer/cinematographer in New York City. He specializes in science, philosophy, human sexuality, and the historical development of religion. David is a friendly atheist and the proud son of a Mexican immigrant.
Jason Sussberg is a documentary filmmaker focusing on the art and humanity in STEM. Past life: motion graphic designer, sports TV producer, and academic. Present life: digital dilettante.”
Kate McLean is a writer, producer and filmmaker living in San Francisco. She is currently producing Jamie Meltzer's forthcoming PBS documentary True Conviction, about a group of exonerated men who form their own detective agency, as well as Immigrant Nation, a film and interactive project (with Theo Rigby) supported by the Tribeca Film Institute and The MacArthur Foundation. A regular collaborator with Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado, Kate produced their first feature doc, The Immortalists (2014), which screened in competition at SXSW, BFI, and CPH: DOX. She is also working with them on their forthcoming documentary about Bill Nye.
Kate co-directed the short documentaries The Caretaker and Marathon, which were featured in the New York Times’ OpDocs series and broadcast on the PBS series POV. She also co-directed the short documentary Pot Country (with Mario Furloni), which won Best Documentary at the USA Short Film Festival (2012), was an official selection at Hot Docs (2012) and at Big Sky (2011) and a national finalist for the 2012 Student Academy Awards. She is a Sundance Creative Producing Summit Fellow and a San Francisco Film Society FilmHouse Resident. She has a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Notable projects include:
David on Twitter | Kate on Twitter | Jason on Twitter
Megan J. Palmer is a scientist and engineer turned policy wonk who is fascinated by biological systems from molecular to social scales. She is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation(CISAC) at Stanford University where she leads a research and practice program on international biotechnology governance. She also founded and is executive director of SynbioLEAP, an international fellowship program in biotechnology leadership, and helps lead the Human Practices and Safety programs of the iGEM Competition. Megan spent 5 years leading the Policy and Practices portfolio of the multi-university NSF Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (Synberc), and has advised numerous academic, civil society, government and industry organizations on their approaches to the responsible development of emerging technologies.
meganjpalmer on Twitter
Over the last three decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed. One of the most influential media artists, Hershman Leeson is widely recognized for her innovative work investigating issues that are now recognized as key to the workings of society: the relationship between humans and technology, genetic engineering, identity, surveillance, and the use of media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and political . Over the last forty years she has made pioneering contributions to the fields of photography, video, film, performance, installation and interactive as well as net-based media art.
Lynn Hershman Leeson is a recipient of the d.velop digital art Lifetime Achievement Award, the most prestigious award in the field of digital arts, as well as a Siggraph Lifetime Achievement Award, Eureka and Rainen Fellowships, Prix Ars Electronica Grand Prize, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and in 2014 was named one of 21 Leaders for the 21st Century.
She has created four feature films- Strange Culture, Teknolust, Conceiving Ada and !Women Art Revolution: A Secret History. Strange Culture is a biography about Artist Steve Kurtz and his subsequent arrest by the FBI as a suspected bioterrorist for having and Science supplies in his home. While Teknolust, starring Tilda Swinton, explores genetic engineering new life. All her movies are in worldwide distribution and have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival and The Berlin International Film Festival, among others. She was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Prize for writing and directing Teknolust. !Women Art Revolution received the Grand Prize in 2013 from the Festival of films on Art in Montreal.
Art work by Lynn Hershman Leeson is featured in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the William Lehmbruck Museum, the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Tate Modern, The National Gallery of Canada, and the Walker Art Center in addition to many celebrated private collections. Recently honored with grants from Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Nathan Cummings Foundation, she is also the recipient of a Siemens International Media Arts Award, the Flintridge Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts.
In 2004 Stanford University Libraries acquired Hershman Leeson’s working archive. Secret Agents Private I, The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson was published by The University of California Press. Hershman Leeson is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, served as Chair of the film Department at San Francisco Art Institute and 2013-14 Distinguished Artist, New School for Social Engagement.
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We're excited to welcome Drew Endy to our growing lineup of amazing biohackers. Drew is a true pioneer. More about him:
Drew Endy, Ph.D. is a long time BioHacker and leader in the field of Synthetic Biology. He is faculty in Stanford’s Bioengineering program and board president of the BioBricks Foundation (BBF) (BBF). Esquire named Endy one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century. His support for the community is manifested through helping create the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition, the Registry of Standard Biological Parts, the BIOFAB, the SB conference series, the US Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC). Drew is also a vocal advocate for open science and cross-disciplinary innovation. This is exhibited in a recent paper he co-authored with Laurie Zoloth, “Should We Synthesize a Human?”. It’s also evident in his collaborations with designers and social scientists for the 2014 Synthetic Aesthetics project, as well as his involvement in the SynbioLEAP program.
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As the BioHacker community grows, there is a need to disseminate information and facilitate interaction between individuals of different knowledge bases and areas of expertise.
BioHTP is run by BioHackers, designed for BioHackers, with talks solicited from BioHackers.
The dates for the inaugural BioHTP are September 23, 24, and 25, 2016. Events will begin the afternoon of Friday the 23rd, and close on Sunday the 25th. Join us for the weekend! We're excited to announce that the event will be held at Omni Commons, a community space in Oakland, CA, and home to Counter Culture Labs.
Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck
Oakland CA 94114
No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Contact us if you need help(admin@biohacktheplanet.com) or alternatively submit a abstract and if you are chosen for a talk you will receive a free pass!
Want to present at BioHTP's inaugural year? Submit an abstract! We'll let you know if you have been selected by mid-June. All accepted proposals get free tickets. If your proposal doesn't get accepted, you'll still receive $10 off of the full price of conference admission for participating.
We're on the lookout for help! If you've got some skills you'd like to share, give us a shout. Photography, videography, mad social media skills, give us a shout at admin@biohacktheplanet.com
Create something beautiful and share it with everyone.
