Talks & Symposiums______________________________________________________
Version Beta, Centre for Contemporary Images, Geneva, Switzerland
Experimental Day Forum, 13 December
“How to Explain SymbioticA to a Dead Mouse”
Jane Coakley, Manager of SymbioticA
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2008
Keynote Conference
8 November, 11.30am – 4.30pm
Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre, Kowloon Park
Featuring: Oron Catts, Director of SymbioticA
Artist Symposium
9 November
Exhibition Hall, Low Block, Hong Kong City Hall
The Tissue Culture & Art Project 3.45-4.45pm
ARTICLE 08 - Biennale for electronic and unstable arts
Stavanger, Norway
http://www.article.no/
ARTICLE Conference: Perfusion - Pollution - Pervasion
17 November 10:30am -6.30pm, Tou Scene.
17.45 - 18.30 Oron Catts- Enriched Gas Chambers - on Perfusion pumps and Techno-Scientific Bodies
Hybrid Encounters Lecture-performance series
Winter 2008/09, Muffathalle, Munich, Germany 25 November: Germany
"Biomedia Arts: from Victimless Steaks to Vital Aesthetics"
Jens Hauser (DE) and Oron Catts (AUS)
http://www.sujaschko.de/en/curating/lecture/biot.html
School of Anatomy & Human Biology Wednesday Seminar
Ionat Zurr- Growing Semi-Living Art
This presentation will briefly discuss Zurr’s PhD research which was completed this year. Her thesis explored issues concerning the nature of living fragments of bodies and how they force us – humans – to reassess our understandings of life. It narrates the history of partial life, beginning a century ago, mainly in the bio-medical field and the fictions it created, to the times when actual semi-livings exist, not only in laboratories and tissue banks, but also in factories, museums, zoos and art galleries.
In 1996 Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr coined the term Semi-Livings to describe the living tissue constructs that are grown/constructed out of tissues taken from complex organisms and maintained alive with the aid of technological intervention. The Semi-Livings refers mainly to living tissue constructs that have no biomedical purpose. In the case of Catts and Zurr these evocative entities are created for the sole purpose of art. The Semi-Livings are unique examples of a growing class of objects/subjects that are increasingly populating our made environment.
Guy Ben Ary - Silent Barrage
“Silent Barrage” is an art and science research project in which a robotic body is controlled by a biological “brain” (neural network). The research is contemplating the artistic and philosophical implications of an entity made of a “living brain” and a mechanical body and surrounds future scenarios where humans will create/grow/manufacture intuitive and creative “thinking entities” that could be intelligent and unpredictable beings. It is planned that the installation will consist of sixty sculptural robotic objects (the body of the entity). Each of the objects amplifies and represents the electric activity that occurs in a real biological neural network (of rat neurons) that have been grown in a Petri dish in Dr. Steve Potter’s neuro-engineering lab in Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. The behaviour of each robotic object is directly dependent on the signals generated by the neural network. The interface between the robotic object (body) and the neurons (brain) is be done via the Internet. Viewers will be invited to enter this immersive environment and “walk through the brain” of the semi-living artist. The audience will be invited to interact with the neural network by moving through the space completing a closed feedback loop between the robotic objects (and viewers) in the gallery to the neurons in the lab.
Tuesday 11 November, 2008 at 1pm, Room 1.81, Anatomy & Human Biology BuildingThe University of Western Australia
Steve Kurtz - ‘Crossing the Line’
Thursday 30 October 2008, 6pm
Venue: Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, UWA (The nearest carpark is P3 off Hackett Drive Entrance 1). This lecture is free and open to the public, no RSVP required
In this brief lecture, Steve Kurtz will discuss some of the elements in the work of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) that seem to antagonize agencies of power and domination. Over the years, CAE has been attacked, threatened, and/ or denounced by police, the FBI, politicians, corporate lawyers, federal prosecutors, and even religious institutions. Kurtz will offer some possibilities as to why CAE has been in constant struggle to maintain a public voice, and how the mechanisms of expression management have been increasingly militarized and intensified over the past 20 years.
Presented by SymbioticA and the Institute of Advanced Studies.
There will be a screening of the short film CAE: Producing Immolation by Sensimilla Productions immediately following the lecture.
About Steve Kurtz
Steven Kurtz is a Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY, Buffalo and a founding member of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). CAE is a collective of tactical media practitioners of various specializations, including computer graphics and web design, wetware, film/video, photography, text art, book art, and interventionist performance. Formed in 1987, CAE’s focus has been on the exploration of the intersections between art, critical theory, technology, and political activism. The collective has performed and produced a wide variety of projects for an international audience at diverse venues ranging from the street, to the museum, to the Internet. Critical Art Ensemble has also written six books on various aspects of cultural resistance. Its writings have been translated into 18 languages. (www.critical-art.net) Critical Art Ensemble artists Steve Kurtz and Lucia Sommer are currently artists in residence at SymbioticA, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia.
(www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au)
WAY TO GO: THE IMPACT OF PROCESS ON ARTISTS’ RESIDENCIES IN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH SETTINGSInvited panel at ISEA, presenting the findings of the Artsactive think-tank at SymbioticA.
Presented by Vicki Sowry, art research science Program Manager at the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT),
2pm – 4pm, Saturday 26 July
Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, Singapore Management University.
Artists in the Science Shrine
International organisations discuss opportunities for artists’ residencies in science and research settings.
Tuesday 22 July 2008
12.30-1.30pm
Social Science Lecture Theatre 1, G28
The University of Western Australia
Figurations of Knowledge
5th Biannual European Conference of the
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
2 - 7 June, 2008
http://www.zfl.gwz-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen//_/242/?cHash=dda0c2e0e0
Hybrid ‘Reflections on science and art’, Portugal
31 May, 2008
http://www.ibmc.up.pt/hybrid/content1.php?menu=1
Seeking Wisdom Series - Keeping the arts and culture alive in an economically booming Australia
30 April
Integrated Human Studies Seminar, UWA
http://www.ihs.uwa.edu.au/
Verena Kaminiarz
SymbioticA, ‘May the mice bite me if it is not true’
School of Anatomy and Human Biology Seminar: 13 May, 1-2pm
Art, Science and SymbioticA
UWA Extension Courses: Intellectual Adventures
Autumn School, Tue 6.30-8pm Apr 1, 8, 15
http://www.extension.uwa.edu.au/
Gail Wight, Unreasonable Interactions
15th April, 2008
1.00 – 2.00pm
G22, ground floor, Architecture building, Nedlands campus
International Conference
Genomics and Society: Setting the Agenda
Amsterdam, 17-18 April 2008
Plenary speakers include Oron Catts, SymbioticA
http://www.society-genomics.nl/?page=505
The Ethics of Tissue Culture & Art
Lecture Oron Catts, April 20
Waag Society, Amsterdam
http://www.society-genomics.nl/?page=586
Tagny Duff - SymbioticA Resident- Moist Media Archives
School of Anatomy and Human Biology
FIRST SEMESTER SEMINARS 2008
8 April, Tuesdays 1 –2pm
Room 1.81, 1st Floor
Gail Wight, Why Suicide is Illegal
School of Anatomy and Human Biology. 1st April 1-2pm
Still, Talking
A SymbioticA Symposium
19 September 2007
1-6pm
ORLAN
This is my Body, This is my Software: between Western and non-Western Cultures
July 26, 2007
As part of her residency ORLAN gave an Institute of Advanced Studies public lecture which can be downloaded here:
http://lectopia.uwa.edu.au/lectopia/lectopia.lasso?ut=278&id=76812
24-27 May 2007
SymbioticA's Artistic Director, Oron Catts and Scientific Director, Stuart Bunt present at
Subtle Technologies Festival, Toronto, Canada.
http://www.subtletechnologies.com |
