Just a wee reminder that you can still register for the INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM co-produced by New Media Scotland & Stills as part of a new series of science and art seasons in association with the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
You can find the latest update on the line up of international speakers below.
Please note that we have extended the deadline for group bookings until Monday, 29th March 2004.
Looking forward to seeing some of you next Saturday at the symposium.
Cheers, -Iliyana Nedkova
* * * * * * * * * * * * * New Media Scotland & Stills present INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: DESIGNER BODIES: TOWARDS THE POSTHUMAN CONDITION
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art: Gymnasium, 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh Sat 3 Apr, 10:30am- 6pm �15 / �10 concessions (includes refreshments and buffet lunch)
BOOKING ESSENTIAL due to limited seating. Please register by downloading the form from the New Media Scotland web site: http://www.mediascot.org/press/pdf/register_form.pdf
Do works of art inspired by new scientific insights into genetics explore
the posthuman condition? Do biomedical science and genetics have a similar
relative impact on contemporary art to that of anatomy during the
Renaissance? What are the implications for artists using DNA and
genetically modified organisms as their media of choice? How do we view
today's alliances of science and art? The Symposium will aim to address
these issues, and unravel the aesthetics, ethics and future of biosciences.
Speakers include:
CHRISTINE BORLAND, Glasgow - artist
GINA CZARNECKI, Melbourne - artist
GAIR DUNLOP, Glasgow - artist
WARREN NEIDICH, New York - founder of the field of Neuroaesthetics and an
artist-in-residence at Goldsmiths College, London
JENS HAUSER, Paris-based independent curator, writer, and artist. Author of
L'Art Biotech, the first festival of biotechnological living art
STEVE KURTZ, Buffalo - founding member of Critical Art Ensemble - an
artists' collective dedicated to exploring the intersection between art,
technology, politics and critical theory
BERGIT ARENDS, London - sciart Programme Curator, Exhibitions Department,
The Wellcome Trust. Co-editor of Experiment: Conversations in Art and
Science
ALAN BLEAKLEY, Penzance - Author of books on the psychology of imagination.
Currently exploring the aesthetics of medical practice. Lecturer at
Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth and Royal
Cornwall Hospital, Truro
BRONAC FERRAN, London - Director of Interdisciplinary Arts, Arts Council
England and responsible for the Art & Science Fellowships initiative
KEITH SKENE, Dundee - Biologist and Lecturer at University of Dundee
exploring patterns of organisation at different levels of life, from DNA to
planetary super-organisms
Related Exhibition DESIGNER BODIES: UNRAVEL THE FUTURE OF HUMAN BODIES Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh Sat 3 Apr - Sun 6 Jun, daily 11am - 6pm Admission FREE Public Preview: Fri 2 Apr 2004 6-8pm Admission FREE Drinks Courtesy of NewHaven and Tennents
The exhibition features work by CHRISTINE BORLAND, GINA CZARNECKI, JACQUELINE DONACHIE and GAIR DUNLOP. For more information visit http://www.stills.org and http://www.mediascot.org.
Organised by New Media Scotland and Stills, Edinburgh, curated by Iliyana
Nedkova. In association with the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art;
Edinburgh International Science Festival; London Science Museum and the
Arts Catalyst, the science -art agency. Supported by the Scottish Arts
Council, Arts Council England and Edinburgh City Council.
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