The Experimental Art Foundation is pleased to present Biotech Art - Revisited Exhibition Opening 6pm Wednesday 8 April. 9 April – 2 May 2009* Life, death & biotechnia. Symposium. Wednesday 8 April Vital micro-ecologies: splice, dice, duplicate. Workshop 14 – 17 April further > eaf.asn.au/2009/biotech09.html
*Please note, the EAF is closed over the Easter long weekend CURATOR Melentie Pandilovski ARTISTS/SCIENTISTS Trish Adams, Bio-Kino (Guy Ben-Ary & Tanja Visosevic), BioHome (Catherine Fargher & Terumi Narushima), André Brodyk, Gary Cass & Donna Franklin, FOaM (Maja Kuzmanovic & Nik Gaffney), Niki Sperou, Paul Thomas in collaboration with Kevin Raxworthy, Tissue Culture & Art Project (Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr) In his final exhibition project as Director of the EAF Melentie Pandilovski revisits a signature theme – art and biotechnology. *Biotech Art – Revisited* includes an exhibition (of the same name), a workshop – *Vital micro-ecologies: splice, dice, duplicate*, and a free public symposium – *Life, death & biotechnia*. The project plans to tease out connections between art, culture, biotechnology & genomics, with leading Australian and international artists and theorists set to install & present their recent works. ------------------------------- SYMPOSIUM • Life, death & biotechnia Wednesday 8th April. 9.30am (registration) 10am start – 4.30pm. Venue: Mercury Cinema. Admission is free. Please book email [email protected] or phone 08 8211 7505 CONVENORS Melentie Pandilovski & Linda Cooper SPEAKERS Marcello Costa FAA, Professor of Neurophysiology, Flinders University; Linda Cooper, Director of the Bragg Initiative in the Department of the Premier and Cabinet South Aust; Niki Sperou, Dr Catherine Fargher & Terumi Narushima, Oron Catts, Dr Paul Thomas, Tania Visosevic, Vicki Sowry, André Brodyk, Dr Trish Adams Life, death & biotechnia is a one-day symposium that brings together the artists participating in the Biotech Art – Revisited project, along with others involved in the discourses surrounding art/science collaborations. Many of the speakers were involved in the EAF's 2004 Art in the Biotech Era project, and their work is represented in the 2008 publication of the same name. The symposium offers a chance for the participants and the audience to consider the changes in the cultural landscape relating to art and biotechnology over the last five years. The artists will present their most recent questions, understandings and misunderstandings around areas as broad and opaque as ethical relationships to partial life, the endless limitations and opportunities for artists and scientists to (mis)understand the others disciplines, challenges for all kinds of taxonomies, the methods and manners of the 'infiltration' of biotechnology into every facet of ordinary life. Timetable, Abstracts & bios > www.eaf.asn.au/2009/biotech09-symposium.html ------------------------------- WORKSHOP • Splice, dice, duplicate Tuesday 14 – Friday 17 April WORKSHOP LEADER Niki Sperou (Applications are now closed) As a part of the Biotech Art – Revisited project the Experimental Art Foundation has organized a workshop: Vital micro-ecologies: splice, dice, duplicate.The workshop, led by the South Australian biotech artist Niki Sperou and hosted by the Department of Medical Biotechnology at Flinders University, will serve as a theoretical and practical introduction in the creation of biotech art. further > www. eaf.asn.au/2009/biotech09-workshop.html Biotech Art - Revisited on eafweb eaf.asn.au/2009/biotech09.html _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
