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Publications + Preprints

  • BioQuantum Record – Exploring otherness through extremophilic microorganisms
    Steward, A., Gfellner, S. V., Pifferi, C., Sforna, M. C., Aucagne, V., & Réfrégiers, M. (2025).
    An Art-Science Collaboration.
    Status: Preprint: View on Zenodo
    A collaborative art-science paper articulating the methodology and speculative framework of the BioQuantum Record project.

 

Conference Contributions

03/2026 | VAAM 2026, Berlin (DE)
Presented joint talk: “Microbial Archaeologies: Art, Science, and the Speculative Lives of Archaea” (Steward, A., Reichelt, R., Tarau, D., Grewe K., Grohmann, D.)

10/2025 | EANA 2025, Lisboa (PT)
Presented talk: “BioQuantum Record—From the Lab to Exhibition and Into Space: Sculpting Mineral Arkships for Extra-terrestrial Life Narratives” (Steward, A., Gfellner, S. V., Pifferi, C., Sforna, M. C., Aucagne, V., Westall, F. & Réfrégiers, M.)

09/2025 | German Archaea Meeting 2025, Marburg (DE)
Presented talk: “Microbial Archaeologies: Art, Science, and the Speculative Lives of Archaea” (Steward, A., Reichelt, R., Gfellner, S. V., Pifferi, C., Sforna M. C., Aucagne, V., Westall, F., Tarau, D., Grewe K., Grohmann, D. & Réfrégiers, M.)

09/2025 | TTT 2025, Ljubljana (SI)
Presented joint talk: “BioQuantum Record: Chiral Handshakes Between Terrestrial Extremophiles and Their Extraterrestrial Counterparts – An Arts-Science Collaboration” (Steward, A., & Gfellner, S. V.)

07/2025 | BEACON 2025, Reykjavík (IS)
Presented talk: “BioQuantum Record: Chiral Handshakes Between Terrestrial Extremophiles and Extra-Terrestrial Counterparts” (Steward, A., Gfellner, S. V., Pifferi, C., Sforna, M. C., Aucagne, V., & Réfrégiers, M.)

05/2025 | ArtoPod Biocraze, Nuremberg (DE)
Presented joint talk: “Archaeal Connections: Extremophile Microorganisms from the Lab to the Studio, from the Exhibition to Space” (Steward, A., Gfellner, S. V., & Reichelt, R.)

04/2025 | EXO 2025, Berlin (DE)
Presented talk: “BioQuantum Record: Chiral Handshakes Between Terrestrial Extremophiles and Their Extraterrestrial Counterparts – An Arts-Science Collaboration” (Steward, A., & Gfellner, S. V.)

 

Essays + Independent Texts

Speculative texts and notes in progress.