SymbioticA Event
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This seminar is part of the Artsactive think-tank hosted by SymbioticA over three days in July to interrogate the issues impacting upon the success and sustainability of art/science residency programs now and into the future. This event is FREE.
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For more information contact SymbioticA on 6488 7116 or email amanda@symbiotica.uwa.edu.au
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Speakers:
Anne Kienhuis studied Biological Health Sciences at Maastricht University and obtained a PhD at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University, Department of Health Risk Analysis and Toxicology in 2007. During her PhD, she used the toxicogenomics approach to make interspecies and in vitro – in vivo comparisons between gene expression profiles of rats exposed in vivo and rat and human hepatocytes exposed in vitro to several hepatotoxicants. Anne is the Scientific Manager of The Arts & Genomics Centre (TAGC), a multidisciplinary research institute based at Leiden University with the role to stimulate and conduct artistic and scientific research into the interactions between art and genomics. Marta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon, and a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford. She has been exploring the intersection between Art and Biology, working in research laboratories demonstrating that new biological technologies can be used as new art medium. In 1999 de Menezes created her first biological artwork (Nature?) by modifying the wing patterns of live butterflies. Since then, she has used diverse biological techniques including functional MRI of the brain to create portraits where the mind can be visualised (Functional Portraits, 2002); fluorescent DNA probesto create micro-sculptures in human cell nuclei (nucleArt, 2001); sculptures made of proteins (Proteic Portrait,2002), DNA (Innercloud, 2003) or incorporating live neurons (Tree of Knowledge, 2005). Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions, articles and lectures. She is currently the artistic director of Ectopia, an experimental art laboratory within a biological research institute. Vicki Sowry has worked in screen production, industry development, new media and television for over 16 years. She has a particular skill and passion for establishing and delivering professional development programs for media practitioners in partnership with industry. As Program Manager of art research science at the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) she manages a suite of residency programs supporting intensive partnerships between media artists and science institutions in Australia and beyond. She also manages the Synapse website <www.synapse.net.au>, a resource comprising a database of international art/science collaborations and an elist discussion bringing together experts around areas of practice including bioart, robotics, AI and cognition, impairment & augmentation, mapping, urban & outer spaces, climate change and the ethical issues arising from art/science practices. In addition, Vicki is a peer of the Australia Council for the Arts and an assessor for the Australian Film Commission. She has honed her considerable governance skills as a Board Director and/or Chairperson for a broad range of key arts and screen industry bodies.
The Australian Network for Art and Technology
(ANAT) is Australia's peak body supporting artists
working in collaboration with scientists and researchers. For the
past decade, ANAT has provided opportunities for artists and
scientists to work together, most recently through residency
programs delivered in partnership with state and federal
government, industry and academia. Currently ANAT has artists in
residence at the Affective Computing Lab at MIT, AI Lab at the
University of Zurich, the Queensland Brain Institute and the
Garvan Institute in Sydney. Participating artists maintain blogs
for the duration of their residency, providing a unique insight
into their experiences. These can be found at www.anat.org.au
Ectopia is a laboratory hosting artists from
different backgrounds interested in exploring the intersection of
art and science. It fosters the development of collaborative
projects involving artists and researchers. Ectopia provides
resident artists access to the research being conducted at the
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, a leading Portuguese
biological research institute as well as other research
institutes in Portugal. During the residency, the artists are
exposed to the research through seminars and informal discussions
with the scientists, being encouraged to develop collaborative
projects. In addition, the researchers are also exposed to the
artists and invited to take advantage of those collaborations in
their scientific projects.
TransGenesis is a programme supporting Czech
artists working with scientists and exhibiting their work during
the annual Week of Science and Technology in cooperation with the
Czech Academy of Sciences. In 2006 we invited artists from abroad
to show and discuss best practice in the ares of art and science
collaborations. In 2007, eight Czech artists took residencies in
science labs and created works that where shown during ENTER3.org
festival and the Mutamorphosis.org conference. The goal of the
programme is to explore the territory between gallery and
laboratory, artistic representation and technical visualization,
between the scientific emphasis on discovering the reality and
the artistic insistence on re-creating and transforming it.
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