BIOART COVEN

2019-present

Bioart Coven is an international collective of over 75 artists, makers, hackers, scientists, witches, feminists, and open-minded thinkers—women, trans, and nonbinary individuals united by a shared interest in the overlap between witchcraft and technofeminism.

The collective emerged from WhiteFeather's research and expanded through the course, Bioart Coven: Surveying and Creating at the Intersection of Contemporary Witchcraft and Biotechnologies, offered online through the School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe (Berlin) in 2021 and 2022. Participants engaged in hands-on experiments including fermentation, microbiology, DIY laboratory tools, and domestic biotechnology, culminating in collaborative rituals, performances, and acts of collective worldbuilding. A living expression of the collective's vision, the Bioart Coven Manifesto was collaboratively authored through an adapted exquisite corpse methodology and its first iteration was published in OCCULT STUDIES, Vol. 2: Revolution (Snake Hair Press, 2021), followed by a second version in The Earthkeeper's Handbook (ecoartspace, 2023). 

Bioart Coven later evolved into an international network for knowledge-sharing, collaboration, experimentation, publishing, mentorship, and feminist community. The project has been presented through workshops, lectures, publications, performances, and conference presentations, including a paper presented at ISEA 2024 and a feature in the GynePunk Lab Zine in 2025. The collective maintained an active online presence through the Bioart Coven Instagram account, which connected more than 1,700 followers before the account was permanently disabled by Instagram in March 2026.

Bioart Coven is also a brand designed by WhiteFeather, offering a small series of embroidered and printed objects that function as markers of affiliation for those who share an interest in creative inquiry, speculative making, and more-than-human futures.