Postgraduate and Undergraduate Education

SymbioticA is a place where emphasis is placed on developing critical thought, discussing ethical and cultural issues and encouraging cross-disciplinary experimentation in art and science. At the same time SymbioticA encourages the phenomenological hands on engagement with the tools and techniques of science (mainly the life sciences).

SymbioticA has established an academic programme for both undergraduate and postgraduate students where they have hands on experience with life sciences. 

Verena Kaminiarz

Postgraduate Courses

Master of Science (Biological Arts)
The Alternative MBA is designed for art practitioners, scientists, and humanities scholars who wish to engage with creative bioresearch. The course focuses on recent advances in the Life Sciences, both in theory and practice. It requires students to take both pre-existing Art & Science units and will consist of an equal content/discourse/methodology from the two disciplines.

SymbioticA’s Master of Science (Biological Arts) postgraduate students- Verena Kaminiarz, Kaori Yamashita, Tarsh Bates, Lisa Goldberg and Joel Ong- research can be found on the Postgrad Research page.

Undergraduate Units

SymbioticA runs two alternating undergraduate units running in the second semester.

Aesthetic Crossovers in Art and Science is a practical and theoretical investigation, through critical engagement, of the nexus and differences of the art and sciences cultures by the use of the technologies of life sciences and biotechnology as an art form.

Art and Life Manipulation introduces students to issues, concepts and techniques relating to contemporary arts practices dealing with the manipulation of living forms.