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 | Adaptation In a broad scoping of issues surrounding life and ecology, ‘Adaptation’, SymbioticA’s long term project, opens important dialogue and debate surrounding human inaction, intervention, responses and responsibilities to the world at large. Embedded in Lake Clifton, south of Mandurah, Western Australia, ‘Adaptation’ proposes a dynamic program of production based artist residencies and events with a vibrant outreach and community program. Lake Clifton as a location and a metaphor, offers a microcosmic peak into the broader issues of ecology and life itself. For more information visit Adaptation. |
 | Ethics and aesthetics as criteria for innovation: This project aims to understand innovation through design research, namely by engaging and reflecting on the activity of designing. It will develop and study a network of artists and designers in an emerging field of innovative practice, to capitalize on Australian expertise, and capture new knowledge about designerly ways of knowing that underpin innovation. Australia must innovate to tackle issues such as climate change, characterised by uncertainty, instability, uniqueness, and value conflicts. The research develops the central claim of design research, namely that design is a discipline with specific forms of knowledge, and specifically considers the role of this knowledge in the vital area of innovation. |
 | Toolkit SymbioticA is developing tools for research and display for Biological Arts. As a growing number of artists, researchers and institutions are engage in biological arts projects, the need for specialised tools become apparent. This project aims to develop low cost technological tools and procedures that will enable artists and institutes such as art galleries and museums to develop and display biological arts project. Building on ten years experience of developing and modifying specialised biological technologies and techniques for artistic ends SymbioticA is well positioned to develop general and customised tools. SymbioticA’s personal was involved in setting up more then 15 laboratories in galleries and museums using off the shelf and specially designed items. SymbioticA also developed different type of customised bioreactors and environments for biological art projects. |
 | Life Boat Project Undertaking its maiden voyage across the Baltic for ISEA 2004, the LifeBoat project was a collaborative trans-disciplinary work that combines the individual interests and specialisations of Nigel Helyer (Sonic Objects) Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (SymbioticA), Stuart Hodgetts (School of Anatomy & Human Biology, UWA) and Sarah Pell (ARTi). "LifeBoat" is a prosaic title indicating both the physical reality (the project is contained within a fully weatherproofed ship's lifeboat) and somewhat more conceptually, as the lifeboat has become home to a Biotechnology lab; a home to the processes of life itself. On a metaphorical level, this project is designed to deal with concepts of sustainability, survival and notions of biological, cultural and ideological re-generation, and naturally its obverse, the degradation of life and all its manifestations. For more information visit the LifeBoat http://www.life-boat.org/ |
