Workshops

SymbioticA’s intensive workshops demonstrate the tools of modern biology through artistic engagement which in turn gives voice to the broader philosophical and ethical exploration into the extent of human intervention with other living things. Run SymbioticA’s Director Oron Catts and key scientific collaborators workshops range from one afternoon to five days.

Upcoming Workshops:

SymbioticA BioTech Art Workshop
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
16-20 November 2009

Call for applications is now closed.

Learn how to engineer life, from the molecular to the tissue level during an intensive 5-day workshop.

SymbioticA’s BioTech Art Workshop is an introduction to biological techniques and issues surrounding the manipulation of living systems. Artists and researchers from various disciplines engage in the biological science lab to utilise language and techniques into their practice and research. Through practical ‘hands-on’ methods, the broader philosophical and ethical implications of human intervention with other living things will be explored.

Led by SymbioticA’s Director Oron Catts, and chief scientific collaborator, Greg Cozens, the workshop is a practical and theoretical introduction to the basics of biological techniques and the creation of biological art.

Presented by SymbioticA, The University of Western Australia and the School of Architecture and Design, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), as part of an Australia Research Council project exploring ethics and aesthetics as criteria for innovation.

Hosted by the School of Applied Sciences (Biosciences), RMIT.

SymbioticA BioTech Art Workshop and Masterclasses
SymbioticA’s BioTech Art Workshop and Masterclass is an introduction to biological techniques and issues surrounding the manipulation of living systems, run over an intensive five-day period. More information >

SymbioticA Tissue Engineering and Art Workshop
This two-day intensive workshop introduces artists and other interested people to basic principals of animal tissue culture and tissue engineering, as well as to its history and the different artistic projects working with tissue culture and tissue engineering. More information >

Past Workshops in 2009:

 Adaptation Workshop
29 June -3 July 2009
Perth and Mandurah, Western Australia

Five days interrogating the problems, challenges, and potentials  of a unique site combining stories of creation and evolution, desalination and floods, histories of human development (built and social), to environmental threats and new species.

The intensive workshop will take place at both The University of Western Australia – drawing upon experts in water research, biological arts, geology and ecology; and Lake Clifton, Mandurah where local insight and experiences will develop a rich and varied story of the complexities of foreseeing a vision for the site in 2049.

The workshop is part of the SymbioticA research project Adaptation and the ARC funded investigation by RMIT and SymbioticA into design research of biological art and digital architecture. http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/projects

 FREE SymbioticA Workshop at PICA
Saturday 18 April 2009, 10am - 5pm
Learn how to isolate dna, work on gel electrophoresis and build a sterile hood at SymbioticA – The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, an artistic research laboratory within the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at The University of Western Australia. SymbioticA's  artistic research into the  life sciences enables artists to engage in  hands on  biological art practices .  As part of HATCHED09  a one-day introductory workshop, including a tour is on offer.
Bookings: 08 9228 6308