Painting and Drawing in the School of Art, COFA presents a lecture by
Oron Catts Director of SymbioticA: Substrate as context

Oron Catts Director of SymbioticA : The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, School of
Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia.
Visiting Professor of Design Interaction, Royal College of Arts, London.
Where: Room EG02, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (cnr Greens Rd and
Oxford St)
Time: 13th May – 1pm – 2pm
Oron Catts is an artist, researcher and curator whose work with the Tissue Culture and Art
Project (which he founded in 1996) is part of the NY MoMA design collection and has been
exhibited and presented internationally. In 2000 he co-founded SymbioticA, an artistic research
laboratory housed within the School of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western
Australia. Under Oron’s leadership, SymbioticA has gone on to win the Prix Ars Electronica
Golden Nica in Hybrid Art (2007) and became a Centre for Excellence in 2008. In 2009 Oron
was recognised by Thames & Hudson’s 60 Innovators Shaping our Creative Future book as one
of five in the category “Beyond Design”, and by Icon Magazine (UK) as one of the top 20
Designers, “making the future and transforming the way we work”.
Oron was a Research Fellow in Harvard Medical School and a visiting Scholar at the
Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University.