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This is shaping up to be a lively discussion! We're off to a great start.
Thank you to everyone who has participated so far. Looking forward to the
discussion as we head into the second week of "Plan Art and New Media."
Week two brings us four guest moderators: Alana Bartol and Pei-Ying
Lin (with Dimitrios Stamatis, and Jasmina Weiss).
Alana Bartol (CA) an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator from
Windsor, Ontario. She is interested in ecology as a ‘life science’ that
interrogates relationships between place and self, nature and community.
Working in performance, video, drawing, installation, bioart, environmental
and community-engaged art, her collaborative and individual works explore
concepts of visibility and survival through our relationships with nature
and each other. Bartol holds an MFA from Wayne State University (Detroit),
where she developed and taught the first Performance Art course in the
Department of Art and received a Rumble Fellowship. Her work has been
presented and screened nationally and internationally including PlugIn
Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg), Simultan Festival (Romania),
Museo de la Ciudad (Mexico) and Media City International Film Festival
(Windsor, ON). In 2015, she completed a six week residency with Lucy +
Jorge Orta at The Banff Centre where she developed several collaborative
works including The Banff Dream Experiment and Life in the Soil, with
artist Amanda White (Toronto). Current and upcoming exhibitions include
Bioart: Collaborating with Life at Karsh-Masson Gallery (Ottawa) and Far
Away So Close: Part III at Access Gallery(Vancouver). www.alanabartol.com
Pei-Ying Lin (TW) is an artist, designer and programmer with an MA in
design interactions, Royal College of Art, and a BSc in life science, minor
in computer science and cultural studies from National Tsing Hua
University, Taiwan. Her main focus is on the combination of science and
human society through artistic methods. She currently runs a Taiwanese
BioArt community in Taiwan.
Dimitrios Stamatis (GR) is a designer with a formal background in Product /
Graphic design. He has worked in Athens (Greece), London (UK) and Hangzhou
(China) designing products for a range of diverse industries. Currently he
is operating as a freelancer (leavenlab.com) exploring how design can
contribute as a catalyst for positive change. His main influences are:
design for social impact, the changing landscapes of post industrial
production, increased cross pollination of disciplines, future of digital
fabrication, human centered design / human behavior, inclusivity,
biologically informed design and open knowledge. Contact information:
dimitr...@leavenlab.com www.leavenlab.com
Jasmina Weiss (SI) is an interior designer and designer with formal
background in architecture / design. She has worked in different fields
connected with design, architecture and art. She has long been interested
in different fields of science, culture, psychology, biology, ecology and
environment.
Patrick Keilty
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information
Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
University of Toronto
http://www.patrickkeilty.com/
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