Coaction Lab

Coaction Lab Coaction Lab is dedicated to the compulsive exploration of un/stable relationships between organisms Outside the University, we have collaborated with the U.S.

interaction among organisms within a community

The Coaction Lab examines unstable relationships between organisms, environments and technology; exploring site specific histories, stories and inspiration. We are interested in the symbiotic worlds of bio & ecological art, interactive systems, 2D & 3D prototyping, video projection mapping, biosensors and multi-sensory data translation. Within the bo

rders of the University, this lab dedicated to collaboration between the Arts, Humanities and Sciences, has formed partnerships across the schools of Marine Sciences, Molecular & Bio Sciences, Engineering, Art, Music & Theatre. Consulate and the Alexandria Creativity Center in Alexandria Egypt, The Cameron Art Museum, the City of Bangor Water District, Bigelow Labs, Alison Chase Movement, The Maine Science Festival, the University of Sussex in Great Britain, the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France and with Intercreate.org based in New Zealand. The lab develops ways for students to get hands on experience outside of the classroom both locally, nationally and internationally, by establishing connections between University research agendas and the needs and missions of ecology-based nonprofits, businesses and community groups. The Coaction Lab facilitates the exploration of both prototyping processes and artistic practice moving from ideation to implementation through a variety of collaborative methods. We encourage students to develop their own hybrid process that compliments their particular needs, agendas and, skill sets while also learning to work with others through interdisciplinary group projects. Emphasis is placed on finding solutions by using one’s senses, through research, prototype development and user feedback. We share vocabularies and skill sets across interdisciplinary boundaries, all with the intention of developing alluring systems of exploration and wonder. These endeavors lie at the heart of what we do. We give our students new ways to visualize, sonify and spatialize their research. Facilitation provides the room they need to adapt, contextualize and communicate their ideas. As a result, they develop a toolbox that will foster future opportunities, such as jobs in higher education, large scale public projects, industry, grants, internships / residencies, and self-entrepreneurship.

Happy New Year and Holidaze from the Felice / Lopez / Avery clans
02/01/2026

Happy New Year and Holidaze from the Felice / Lopez / Avery clans

The Coaction Lab is excited to share it's work on the "Retention / Detention" project and new work by Gene A. Felice II,...
17/10/2025

The Coaction Lab is excited to share it's work on the "Retention / Detention" project and new work by Gene A. Felice II, "Biological Stained Glass" as a part of the Sympoiesis show at the Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery in Columbus Ohio. Felice was honored to be chosen as one of the curated artists for this incredible array of artists brought together by the Lichen Likers art research group in the Dept. of Art at the Ohio State University. Please visit the show website for more details:
https://u.osu.edu/livingartecolab/call-for-entry-sympoiesis/ & https://coactionlab.org/

12/07/2025
We're very excited to share an Earth Day update on the next phase of our Retention / Detention project! Big thanks for ...
22/04/2025

We're very excited to share an Earth Day update on the next phase of our Retention / Detention project! Big thanks for the folks in the OUR office at UNCW for helping to create this video! https://vimeo.com/1071888169 You can read more about the project on our website here https://coactionlab.org/retention-detention/

Video by Bradley Pearce and Jesse Bradley at the UNCW Office of University Relations Retention / Detention is a sculptural and biological intervention that uses…

03/01/2025
A special thanks goes out to Bradley Pearce and the Office of University Relations at UNCW for putting together this inc...
31/10/2024

A special thanks goes out to Bradley Pearce and the Office of University Relations at UNCW for putting together this incredible video showing off all of the amazing work that took place at this years FlowILM event at the Cameron Art Museum

FlowILM 2024 A recap of the 2024 FlowILM event at the Cameron Art Museum on October 19, 2024. FlowILM is a free community art event focused through an art &…

Check out the schedule / map for the today's FlowILM event at the Cameron Art Museum! The 2024 event kicks off at 3:30 ...
19/10/2024

Check out the schedule / map for the today's FlowILM event at the Cameron Art Museum! The 2024 event kicks off at 3:30 with the Dislocated / Dislocated film series and runs through 9:30pm. See you there! https://flowilm.com/event-map/

https://flowilm.com/biota-v/Following the ebb and flow of the tide cycle, Biota V explores the rhythms and depths of our...
19/10/2024

https://flowilm.com/biota-v/
Following the ebb and flow of the tide cycle, Biota V explores the rhythms and depths of our oceanic ecosystems. This multidisciplinary team of artists includes Nicole Dextras from Vancouver, Canada who has created a bioplastic / alginate based couture ensemble for dancer Janice Lancaster from Winston Salem, NC to bring alive through contemporary movement and dance. Kimathi Moore from Asheville, NC has created a sampled and electronic soundscape that connects symbiotically to the light based, projection mapped visuals of Gene Felice from Wilmington, NC.

https://flowilm.com/environmental-filmmaking/FST 416/516 Environmental Filmmaking: Classroom in the Wild is a production...
16/10/2024

https://flowilm.com/environmental-filmmaking/

FST 416/516 Environmental Filmmaking: Classroom in the Wild is a production course offered by UNCW Film Studies that encourages students to engage more directly and contemplatively with the more-than-human world. Students experiment with such techniques as macro-photography, underwater photography and 360 video in addition to honing their senses through recording audio.

The list of films and directors:

“A Black River Adventure” by Alex Cordero (Field Video Assignment using 360 camera)
“Black River” by Janneke Wade DeJong (Field Video Assignment using 360 camera)
“Inhale/Exhale” by Claire Welborn (Macrophotography Assignment)
“Macro Film” by Ashley Dalton (Macrophotography Assignment)
“Brewing Up Sustainable Soils” by Joey Katos, Jess Kotrick and Molly Walters (Advocacy Documentary Assignment)
“NHC Arboretum” by Joey Katos (Macrophotography Assignment)
“Predator Roots” by Sarah Morris (Macrophotography Assignment)

Additional Faculty Films:

“Black River” by André Silva
“Tides” by André Silva
“To Live and Die in the Shadows: Meditations on Ferns, Survival, and Horizontal Gene Transfer” by Shannon Silva

https://flowilm.com/dislocated-dislocada-2024/An international showcase of performance videos by some of the world’s lea...
16/10/2024

https://flowilm.com/dislocated-dislocada-2024/

An international showcase of performance videos by some of the world’s leading performance artists in Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and the Americas, addressing through performance work, the uncertainties and challenges of global warming and its impact on human life and that of our planet. Presented by BrobDinGnag (Wilmington NC) and co-curated with Cuerpos Disidentes – Dissident Bodies (San Juan, USA) & Casa de Duende (Philadelphia, USA).

link to Philly Fringe: https://phillyfringe.org/events/dislocada-dislocated-2024-internacional-performance-video-showcase/

A curatorial project founded in 2019, Muestra Dislocada/Dislocated Showcase is comprised of several artist collectives: Encuentro de Acción en Vivo y Diferido -AVD- (Bogotá, Colombia), BrobDinGnag -BDG- (Wilmington, NC, USA), Cuerpos Disidentes – Dissident Bodies (San Juan, Puerto Rico & Philadelphia, USA), Casa de Duende (Philadelphia, USA), No Nation (Chicago, USA), La Sonora Performancera (Oaxaca, MX) and LiveHive (India). Together, they have created an international platform for curating video performance art. Initially convened in 2019 by Dissident Bodies, these collectives have collaborated on a transnational curatorial project, issuing open calls for video performances that explore a broad range of sociocultural, political, environmental, and gender-based themes. With its global composition, Dislocada/Dislocated aims to question cultural conditioning, heteronormativity, and environmental struggles— viewing these as constructs that must be critically examined and dismantled. By questioning these norms, the collective seeks to create spaces that foster greater tolerance of diverse and more accepting perspectives.

https://flowilm.com/writing-letters-to-water/An ongoing, open, collaborative project including anyone who contributes a ...
15/10/2024

https://flowilm.com/writing-letters-to-water/
An ongoing, open, collaborative project including anyone who contributes a letter to water, the UNCW departments of creative writing, dance, film, and alban elved dance company.

Collaborators: Karola Lüttringhaus, Sayantani Dasgupta & Maurice Moore

You can contribute a letter to water here through the link below and you can contribute your letter on October 19th at Cameron Art Museum from 6´9pm.
Water needs to hear from us! Water is a person.
​Write a letter to water! Surprise us! What is your relationship to water? Confide in water, ask water about herself, tell water what to do, apologize, tell water a joke, whatever comes to mind. What does your relationship to water reveal about yourself?
​How does water shape us, and how do we shape water?

More Info / Submit a Letter: https://www.karolaluettringhaus.com/letter-to-water-2024.html
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I first heard about FlowILM during Prof. Gene Felice’s presentation during the un-DISCIPLINED showcase in November 2023. That it brought together the arts and sciences so beautifully sounded both amazing as well as astonishing. I wanted my students to be a part of this initiative because too often writers are told that the arts and sciences are too far apart and that one can’t be “good” or “gifted” at both. To dismantle this notion, and to work with Prof. Felice and the artist Karola Luttringhaus, students enrolled in my course titled, Short Stories from Here and There, wrote “letters to water.” From addressing climate change in the Oceans to conveying gratitude for the humble tap water, the 12 letters capture a vast range of emotions and imaginative possibilities.

~ Sayantani Dasgupta, Associate Prof. of Creative Writing, UNCW.

You can read more about the full “Letters to Water” project here: https://flowilm.com/writing-letters-to-water/

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The Coaction Lab - interaction among organisms within a community

The Coaction Lab is dedicated to the compulsive exploration of unstable relationships between organisms, environments and technology; examining site specific histories, stories and inspiration. We are interested in the symbiotic worlds of bio & ecological art, interactive systems, 2D & 3D prototyping, video projection mapping, biosensors and multi-sensory data translation. Within the borders of the University, this lab dedicated to collaboration between the Arts, Humanities and Sciences, has formed partnerships across the schools of Marine Sciences, Molecular & Bio Sciences, Engineering, Art, Music & Theatre. Outside the University, we have collaborated with the U.S. Consulate and the Alexandria Creativity Center in Alexandria Egypt, the City of Bangor Water District, Bigelow Labs, Alison Chase Movement, The Maine Science Festival, the University of Sussex in Great Britain, the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France and with Intercreate.org based in New Zealand. The lab develops ways for students to get hands on experience outside of the classroom both locally, nationally and internationally, by establishing connections between University research agendas and the needs and missions of ecology-based nonprofits, businesses and community groups.

The Coaction Lab facilitates the exploration of both prototyping processes and artistic practice moving from ideation to implementation through a variety of collaborative methods. We encourage students to develop their own hybrid process that compliments their particular needs, agendas and, skill sets while also learning to work with others through interdisciplinary group projects. Emphasis is placed on finding solutions by using one’s senses, through research, prototype development, user feedback and sharing vocabularies and skill sets across interdisciplinary boundaries, all with the intention of developing alluring systems of exploration and wonder. These endeavors lie at the heart of what we do. We give our students new ways to visualize, sonify and spatialize their research. This facilitation provides the room they need to adapt, contextualize and communicate their ideas. As a result, they develop a toolbox that will foster future opportunities, such as jobs in higher education, large scale public projects, industry jobs, grants, internships / residencies, and self-entrepreneurship.