Please note this is not a comprehensive list of resources and is considered to be a supplement to your own research. This page shall be built upon in the future.
Postgraduate research
For research undertaken by SymbioticA’s post graduate students, click here.
Past and present residents
For past and present residents at SymbioticA, click here.
Resource Lists
Nature Supplement
Scientists on art and Artists on science
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/arts/index.html
Art and Genetics Bibliography compiled by George Gessert
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/art+biobiblio.html (loading issue)
Art, Science, Technology Bibliography compiled by Steve Wilson
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks2.html
Sci-Art Publications, organisations and articles compiled by Sally Hunter.
http://www.burwell.co.uk/sally/links.htm (broken link)
Welcome Trust Library collation of books, reports and articles on issues re. science and society.
http://psci-com.ac.uk/text/pscicomlit/old.bibliographies/BIBMAR2005.html
The Bio Blurb on WS1 Art Radio
http://www.wps1.org/include/shows/bio_blurb.html
World wide words - bioart
http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-bio9.htm
Blogs
We Make Money not Art
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/bioart/
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/biotech_art/
Loreto Martin
http://loretomartin.blogspot.com/search/label/art%20and%20science
Pimm
http://pimm.wordpress.com/
Semeiotica
http://www.semeiotica.com/
Articles Regarding Bioart
Art, biotechnology and the culture of peace
http://www.scielo.cl/fbpe/img/ejb/v7n2/a07/bip/
Melanitis Yiannis
Bio-art? Does modernism reappear through the aestheticization of biotechnology?
http://www.geocities.com/melanitis2001/bioart.html
Making art from Biotech
http://www.slate.com/id/2168469/fr/flyout
Bioterror and "Bioart" — A Plague o' Both Your Houses
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/354/25/2715
Cabinet Magazine
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/16/catts.php
Other Art, Science & Technology Organisations
Artsactive
http://www.artsactive.net
Art Catalyst
http://www.artscatalyst.org/
Art and Science Collaborations Inc
www.asci.org
Artists in labs
http://www.artistsinlabs.ch/
Ars Electronica
http://www.aec.at
Inter Society for the Electronic Arts
http://www.isea-web.org/
Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT)
http://www.mit.edu
Journals
Leonardo Journal
http://leonardo.info/
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/ (loading issue)
Culture Machine 7 (2005)
BioPolitics
http://www.culturemachine.net
Technoetic Arts
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=1477965X
Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society
www.swin.edu.au/ajets
Volume 2, No 2, 2004 – Issue on Sustainability, Biotechnology, Cutting Edge Technology.
Bioethic Sites
Nuffield Council on BIOETHICS
http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/
Who owns your body
http://www.whoownsyourbody.org/index.html
Mailing Groups
SymbioticA Mailing list (general list)
Subscribe at: http://maillists.uwa.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/symbiotica
Diatrope: Art and Science Discussion list
http://webexhibits.org/about/diatrope.html
Empyre Forum
empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
http://www.subtle.net/empyre
Animals and Society
http://www.animalsandsociety.org/
Copyright and Intellectual Property Links
Creative Commons
www.creativecommons.org
Australian Copyright Council
http://www.copyright.org.au
Intellectual Rights Property Charter – an RSA Project
http://www.ipcharter.org/news.asp (loading problem)
http://org.suw.org.uk/2005/10/launch_of_the_rsas_adelphi_cha.html
Artquest
www.artquest.org.uk
Biological Art
Organism : Making art with living systems
http://music.columbia.edu/organism
LifeBoat Crew
http://www.life-boat.org
MACROLAB
http://makrolab.ljudmila.org
Criminal Animal
http://www.criminalanimal.org/projects/projects.htm
Bioprinting Art
http://www.musc.edu/bioprinting/html/bioprinting_art.html
Biological Design
Design Interaction at RCA
http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/
Lab-yrinth
http://www.lab-yrinth.net/
Biological art Exhibitions
BioFeel, BEAP2002
www.beap.org
BioDifference, BEAP2004
www.beap.org
Still,Living, BEAP2007
http://www.beap.org
sk-interfaces
http://www.fact.co.uk/news/?id=128
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/03/skinterfaces.php
YouGenics
http://www.yougenics.net/
Paradise Now? Picturing the Genetic Revolution
http://www.genomicart.org/pn-home.htm
Today in Paradise – Genetics and Art
http://www.mobileart.se/information.html
L'Art Biotech
http://www.lelieuunique.com/archives/archives.html (under construction at present)
Artists/Designers
Art Orient object
Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin founded Art Orienté objet in 1991 as a collaboration intended to resemble that between a playwright and a stage director in constant dialogue. During the last fifteen years their work has been focusing on “the sciences of life” in general, from the life sciences to ethology and trans-cultural psychiatry.
http://www.artorienteobjet.com/
Bioteknica Sean Bailey, Jennifer Willet
Corporate art for a corporal public. Bioteknica is an international bioengineering firm dedicated to the progressive advancement of human genetic structure. (Jennifer Willet and Shawn Bailey, both faculty members at Concordia, have created BIOTEKNICA, a fictitious company that tests the boundaries between art and science, and between fabrication and reality. )
http://www.bioteknica.org/ (broken link)
BioKino The Living Screen (Tanja Visosevic, Guy Ben-Ary, Bruce Murphy)
The Living Screen is a primitive Bio-Kino toy, designed to travel the side show alleys of art. Peer thru the Bio-Projector and experience the astounding 1/2 millimetre projection, as it transforms with the living canvas. Take savage pleasure in how the screen made from blood Splatters the dead back to life. Delight in primeval horror, as the Cellular Dentata lurches towards you for a bite. OR look awry, as the Monstrous Other, gazes back into your eye.
http://www.biokino.net
Beatriz Da Costa
Beatriz da Costa is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, who works at the intersection of contemporary art, engineering, politics, and the life sciences. Beatriz is a former collaborator of Critical Art Ensemble and a co-founder of Preemptive Media, an arts, activism and technology group. Beatriz is an Associate Professor of Arts, Computation, Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.
http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/
Brandon Ballengée
Brandon Ballengée bridges the gap between research biology and art. Ballengée collaborates with scientists to create hybrid environmental art/ ecological research projects and is involved directly with field research. He presents photographs and biological samples of the creatures he collects.
http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-19.html
Critical Art Ensemble
Critical Art Ensemble (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 performance. For m ed 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 musem , to the Internet.
http://www.critical-art.net/
http://www.caedefensefund.org/
Elio Caccavale
Elio Caccavale is a designer who uses hypothetical products and social fiction scenarios to engage people’s imaginations about the emerging technologies and the effects that they might have on life in the future.
http://www.eliocaccavale.com/
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2005/01/utility-pets.php
Peta Clancy
Peta Clancy works with photography to explore the themes of transience, temporality, mutability and the corporeal and subjective limits of the human body.
http://www.petaclancy.com/
Boo Chapple
Boo is a practicing artist and researcher whose work focuses on processes of material-technical transformation that operate at the boundary between life and non-life, bodies and culture. She has recently completed a year long residency at SymbioticA. Here she was working in the area of art and biology. Previous work has been done across a number of different mediums including radio, sound, performance and installation.
www.corpuseclectica.net
Joe Davis
Joe Davis was a sculptor and bike mechanic in Mississippi before he walked into M.I.T. uninvited in 1982 and walked out (the same day) as a research fellow in visual studies. However, intent on also realizing the scientific side of his nature, Davis was invited in 1992 to become a research associate in the laboratory of famed biophysicist Alexander Rich, who discovered "left-handed" DNA. When he is not creating conceptual art in synthetic DNA or envisioning wild projects for NASA, Davis is on somewhat of a personal crusade to bring more artists into the fold of modern biology. Davis is also an accomplished artist in the traditional sense.
http://www.thegatesofparadise.com/joe_davis.htm
Georg Dietzler
Georg Dietzler is a Curator's Choice Artist from Germany whose sculptural work explores the fascinating generative properties of the natural world. In recent years he has created experimental installations using Oyster mushrooms for bioremediation of soil contaminated with PCB's (polychlorinated biphenyls). These highly toxic industrial pollutants are effectively neutralized through the cultivation of gourmet mushrooms on contaminated land.
http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-33.html
http://www.dietzlerge.org/
Biojewellery
Biojewellery started out by looking for couples who wanted to donate their bone cells. Their cells were seeded onto a bioactive scaffold. This material encouraged the cells to divide and grow rapidly, and the resulting tissue took on the form of the scaffold, which was a ring shape. The couple’s cells were grown at Guy’s Hospital, and the final bone tissue was taken to a studio at the Royal College of Art to be made into a pair of rings. The bone was combined with traditional precious metals so that each has a ring made with the tissue of their partner.
http://www.biojewellery.com/
Donna Franklin
Franklin undertook research at SymbioticA into the techniques of ancient and new technologies through exploring the growth and staining of fungi on textiles. Her work Fibre Reactive consists of “...a white dress “colonised” by a fungal growth. This encrustation was in reds, oranges, pinks and dull greens, transforming the white purity of the cotton fibre into a living fabric of dazzling beauty... The invasion of something so closely connected with self by a beautiful but alien life form was wonderful but alarming – like the earth reclaiming the body after death” Simon Blond, The West Australian Arts Review, 25 Sept. 2004.
http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/residencies/residents2/donna_franklin
Farmlab
The team behind the Not A Cornfield project in Downtown Los Angeles has become Farmlab, a short-term multi-disciplinary investigation of land use issues that are related to sustainability, livability, and health. Continuing to serve as a catalyst for community involvement and change through the development of art actions, projects, and otherwise, Farmlab is dedicated to the preservation and perpetuity of all living things.
http://www.farmlab.org/
Future Farmers
Futurefarmers is a group of practitioners aligned through an open practice of making work that is relevant to the time and space surrounding them. Through collaboration, they explore the relationship of concept and creative process between interdisciplinary artists. Futurefarmers are well known as innovators within the new media art and design contexts.
http://www.futurefarmers.com/
George Gessert
Gessert began as a painter. His transition to plant breeding was through painting on Japanese papers, which absorbed the water and pigments in unpredictable ways. Becoming fascinated by how ink spots grow on unprepared papers. Watching them grow, and helping them along, he no longer felt like a lone artist, but connected to creative energies that already reside in materials and in the world. From ink spots to plant breeding was only a small step. Plants, like ink spots, generated themselves.
http://www.viewingspace.com/genetics_culture/pages_genetics_culture/gc_w02/gc_w02_gessert.htm
Andy Gracie
hostprods is the creative alias of Andy Gracie, a multi-disciplinary artist making work with technological and natural systems. Projects by Andy Gracie (hostprods) feature elements of installation, sound, video and biological practice and involve the convergence of technological and natural systems. The underlying focus of hostprods activities involves a study of organic intelligence, emergent systems and the placing of technological agents in situations where they are able to share information and behaviors with natural systems, to expose the machinic nature of networked ecologies.
http://www.hostprods.net/
Nigel Helyer
Nigel Helyer (a.k.a. Dr Sonique) is a Sydney based Sculptor and Sound Artist with an international reputation for his large scale sonic installations, environmental sculpture works and new media projects. His practice is actively inter-disciplinary linking creative practice with scientific Research and Development.
http://www.sonicobjects.com/
Natalie Jeremijenko
Natalie Jeremijenko, is a design engineer and technoartist. Recently she was named one of the top one hundred young innovators by the MIT Technology Review. Her work includes digital, electromechanical, and interactive systems in addition to biotechnological work.
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/
Eduardo Kac
Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bio art. A pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-Web '80s, Eduardo Kac emerged in the early '90s with his radical telepresence and biotelematic works. His visionary combination of robotics and networking explores the fluidity of subject positions in the post-digital world.
http://www.ekac.org
Marta de Menezes
Marta de Menezes work has been focused on the possibilities that modern biology offers to artists. She has been trying not only to portrait the recent advances of biological sciences, but to incorporate biological material as new art media: DNA, proteins and cells offer an opportunity to explore novel ways of representation and communication.
http://www.martademenezes.com/
Meart
“MEART – The Semi Living Artist” is a geographically detached, bio-cybernetic research and development project exploring aspects of creativity and artistry in the age of new biological technologies. MEART is an installation distributed between two (or more) locations in the world. Its “brain” consists of cultured nerve cells that grow and live in a neuro-engineering lab, in Georgia institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA (Dr. Steve Potter's lab). Its “body” is a robotic drawing arm that is capable of producing two-dimensional drawings. The “brain” and the “body” will communicate in real time with each other for the duration of the exhibition.
http://www.fishandchips.uwa.edu.au/
Zbigniew Oksiuta
Zbigniew Oksiuta’s projects are a crossover of architecture, art and biological sciences. Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology in 1978, Oksiuta scrutinizes dynamic systems that are known to transfer information and energy through liquid medium. He also produces and directs films, and lectures on architecture and art internationally.
http://www.oksiuta.de/
Orlan
ORLAN is an internationally renowned French artist who has been active in photography, video, sculpture, installations and performance since 1965. She wrote the Carnal Art Manifesto, and from 1990 to 1993 conducted a series of nine surgery- performances in which she refigured her face and created new im ages referring to non-Western cultures. ORLAN is currently an artist in residence at SymbioticA.
http://www.orlan.net/
Kira O'Reily
Kira’s practice stems from fine art background employing performance, and some video and installation with which to consider the body as a site in which narrative threads of the personal, sexual, social and political knot and unknot in shifting permutations. Current research and development expands on ideas of mark making as a bodily trace using blood, foregrounding both a materiality and a fragmentation of the body within a given and specific space and place responding directly to the architecture and the body of the site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kira_O'_Reilly
Rich Pell
Richard Pell's collaborative interactive and robotic works have been exhibited in art, activist and engineering contexts. Additionally, Richard has consulted with organizations such as the Institute for Applied Autonomy, the Center for Bio Media Literacy, the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and the Center for Land Use Interpretation.
http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~pellr/
Marko Peljhan
Marko Peljhan started Makrolab as an autonomous communications, research and living unit and space, capable of sustaining concentrated work of 4 people in isolation/insulation conditions for up to 120 days. Conceived in 1994, the project was first realised during an art exhibition, documenta X in Kassel in 1997 and since then it evolved including work of many people from many different disciplines. Makrolab has a projected life span of 10 years and the project will end in 2007, when a new architecture will be placed in the Antarctic as a permanent base.
http://www.interpolar.org/
http://makrolab.ljudmila.org
Philip Ross
Many of the artworks that Philip Ross makes are created through the design and construction of controlled environmental spaces. In these environments he nurtures, transforms, and refines a variety of sculptural artifacts much as one might train the growth of a Bonsai tree. His desire is that a person encountering this artwork will consider the idea of nature within a frame of social and historic contexts.
http://www.philross.org/
Ken Rinaldo
Ken Rinaldo’s interdisciplinary media art installations look to the intersection between natural and technological systems. His art works are influenced by theories on living systems, artificial life, interspecies communication and the underlying beauty and pattern inherent in the nature and organization of matter, energy, and information. Whilst he finds hope and fascination with techno-cultural evolution, many of his works express concern for ecological issues, which are often not considered within the realm of technological and cultural progress.
http://kenrinaldo.com/
Julia Reodica
Julia Reodica currently resides in California, USA. She is an art/science educator, practicing artist, and registered nurse. Her on-going work includes traditional art practices and/or the use of biotechnology to create art pieces that express social commentary and encourages public inquiry. Science-related work based on utilizing semi/living systems for exhibition was developed through work in art/science museums and institutions in the U.S. and internationally.
http://juliareodica.net/
Subrosa
subRosa is a reproducible cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers committed to combining art, activism, and politics to explore and critique the effects of the intersections of the new information and biotechnologies on women’s bodies, lives, and work.
subRosa produces artworks, activist campaigns and projects, publications, media interventions, and public forums that make visible the effects of the interconnections of technology, gender, and difference; feminism and global capital; new bio and medical technologies and women’s health; and the changed conditions of labor and reproduction for women in the integrated circuit.
http://www.cyberfeminism.net/
Christa Sommerer Laurent Mignonneau
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists working in the field of interactive computer installation. In 1992 Sommerer and Mignonneau teamed up and started their collaboration in the area of interactive computer installations. Mignonneau and Sommerer’s artworks have been called "epoch making" for developing natural and intuitive interfaces and for often applying scientific principles such as artificial life, complexity and generative systems to their innovative interface designs.
http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/
Stelarc
Stelarc is an Australian artist who has used medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems and the Internet to explore alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body. He has performed with a THIRD HAND, a VIRTUAL ARM, a VIRTUAL BODY and a STOMACH SCULPTURE. He has acoustically and visually probed the body- having amplified brainwaves, blood-flow and muscle signals and filmed the inside of his lungs, stomach and colon, approximately two metres of internal space.
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/
Jun Takita
Takita often connects Japan and France through his work and explores the interfaces between science and reality and the gaps in culture and politics.
http://www.muse.co.jp/paris/artists/takita/takita_e.html
Tissue Culture & Art (Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr)
The Tissue Culture & Art Project (TC&A) was set to explore the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression. TC&A investigates relationships with the different gradients of life through the construction/growth of a new class of object/being – that of the Semi-Living. These are parts of complex organisms which are sustained alive outside of the body and coerced to grow in predetermined shapes. These evocative objects are a tangible example that brings into question deep rooted perceptions of life and identity, concept of self, and the position of the human in regard to other living beings and the environment. TC&A are interested in the new discourses and new ethics/epistemologies that surround issues of partial life and the contestable future scenarios they are offering us.
http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/
Paul Thomas
Paul has been working in the area of electronic arts since 1981 when he co-founded the group Media-Space which met weekly and developed a series of artistic resources fitting an Artslab concept. Media-Space was part of the first global link up with artists connected to ARTEX. In 1995 he founded the group Terminus= an online research group and in 2002 he developed the Centre for Living and Electronic Art Research (CLEAR). Paul Thomas was the Artistic Director of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth in 2002, 2004 and 2007. Paul is also a practicing electronic artist.
http://www.visiblespace.com
Paul Vanouse
Since the early 1990s Paul’s artwork has addressed complex issues raised by varied new techno-sciences using these very techno-sciences as a medium. His artworks have included data collection devices that examine the ramifications of polling and categorization, genetic experiments that undermine scientific constructions of race and identity, and temporary organizations that playfully critique institutionalization and corporatization. These "Operational Fictions" are hybrid entities--simultaneously real things and fanciful representations--intended to resonate in the equally hyper-real context of the contemporary electronic landscape.
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~pv28/
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~pv28/lfp.html
Victoria Vesna
Victoria Vesna is a media artist and the Chair, department of Design | Media Arts. Her work explores the effects of communication technologies on collective behavior, and shifts in the perception of identity in relation to scientific innovation.
http://nano.arts.ucla.edu/
Stephen Wilson
Historically, the arts alerted people to emerging developments, examined the unspoken implications, and explored alternative futures. As the centers of cultural imagination and foment of our times have moved to the technology labs, the arts have not understood the challenge. It is a critical error to conceptualize research as merely some narrow, technical specialized inquiry. Merely assimilating the new gizmos to create new media is a timid response. Wilson became more interested in the use of technology to celebrate and investigate real world place, physicality, and corporeality. Thus, he has started to explore several new areas of research in my art including biological experimentation, body and environmental sensing, and GPS location sensing technology.
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/%7Eswilson/
Gail Wight
In attempts to understand thinking, Gail has: made maps of various nervous systems, practiced art while under hypnosis, designed an artificial intelligence to read my tarot, read for hours to fish, conducted biochemical experiments on myself and others, executed medical illustrations in black velvet, worked on cognitive research projects, documented dissections of humans, dissected machines and failed to put most of them back together, freely made up vocabulary as needed, removed my teeth to model information systems, self-induced phobias concerning consciousness in the plant kingdom, donated my body to science and then requested it be returned, observed nerve development in vivo, choreographed synaptic responses, translated EEGs into music, conducted a cartesian exorcism on myself, and attempted to create cognitive models of my own confused state
http://www.notochord.org
Amy Youngs
Amy Youngs creates mixed-media, interactive sculptures and digital media works, that explore the complex relationship between technology and our changing concept of nature and self.
http://www.hypernatural.com/art.html
Adam Zaretsky
Adam Zaretsky is an artist, or "bioartist,". While humour remains a mainstay in Zaretsky's artwork and scientific practice, his endeavours are grounded in a very serious and complex understanding of biologic and genetic issues that are very much a part of contemporary society. The new technologies being explored for scientific and medical purposes can equally be tested on artistic ground. Zaretsky's bio-artwork is motivated by his own set of ethical quandaries prompted by past history.
http://www.emutagen.com/
Scholars
Hannah Louise Landecker
http://cohesion.rice.edu/administration/fis/report/FacultyDetail.cfm?DivID=1&DeptID=2&RiceID=251
Resources Appendix
Search for the following articles:
The Tissue Culture King a short story by by Julian Huxley, 1926.
Growing Semi-Living Sculptures – The Tissue Culture and Art Project by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, Leonardo Issue 35:4 August 2002, pages 365-370.
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