19 September 2014, 5:00-7:30pm
The Bird, William St Northbridge, Western Australia
Free entry- no RSVP required.
Round table speakers: Stelarc, Oron Catts and others to be confirmed.
Bio-art inhabits a realm within the art/science/medicine/technology matrix and this international issue examines a world where human beings are evolving in response to the rapid progress of biotechnology in medicine, genetics, and science.
The work of a biotech artist might include extensions to the body; the relationship of living to non-living; bio-couture (living ‘textiles’) the future of cyborgian systems; man-machine interactions and a great deal more. Microbes and bacteria are one of the new frontiers in the understanding of life on earth, and have started to appear as the raw materials of art in various contexts. The changing definitions of the moment of irreversible death and the definition of life itself, have major implications for philosopher, ethicists and artists alike. Essays will address the work of artists from Australian, Europe, the US and UK including Helen Pynor, Anna Dumitriu, Pinar Yoldas, Donna Franklin, SymbioticA Tissue Culture & Art, Paul Thomas, Tagny Duff, Sissel Tolaas. Stelarc, Eduardo Kac and many more.
Artlink is one of the few international art magazines to address the topic of bio art, and to provide information on the extraordinary ferment of activity going on with artists working in famous institutes of scientific and medical research as residents and provocateurs. This issue is being produced by the Artlink team with the assistance of international expert on Bio-technology and art, Dr Melentie Pandilovski, currently based in Winnipeg and Director of VideoPool.