Atmosfera Lab Bisuala is a space for experimentation with image, sound, and ethnography. Located at the HEFA I Faculty of the University of the Basque Country (EHU) (Avda. Tolosa 70, Donostia), the lab promotes an anthropology attentive to the material and aesthetic dimensions of the environments in which it works. It also offers workshops, seminars, and encounters focused on vitally engaged ways of bringing art and science together.
Founded in 2024, it continues the work initiated by the HAU-taldea group, which between 2009 and 2015 sought to create a place for documentary production within academia. The lab aims to become a hub for reflection, collaboration, and experimentation among different groups, disciplines, collectives, organizations, and institutions both within and beyond the university.
Atmosfera Lab Bisuala is part of the consolidated research group GAIT – Gizarte Aldaketa Ikerketa Taldea at the University of the Basque Country (EHU) and is affiliated with the Centre for Collective Identity (CEIC), based at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication (Leioa).
Its main objectives are to organize screenings, seminars, and workshops with a practical and reflective focus that delve into the ethical, aesthetic, and conceptual dimensions of audiovisual production; to generate materials of scientific, artistic, and social interest; and to collaborate with intra-, inter-, and extra-university actors in promoting open knowledge, healthy environments, and emancipatory projects.
At present, it collaborates with the Basque Association of Anthropology (ANKULEGI); the Nordic Association for Visual Anthropology (NAFA); the Visual Anthropology Lab at the University of Vienna (VAAL); the Visual Anthropology Lab at the University of Bern (EMB); the independent film production company HIRUKI FILMAK