Hello from SymbioticA 24 March 2021
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Crossing Kingdoms : A Panel Discussion
3 April 2021 (Online,free)
Presented by Art's Work in the Age of Biotechnology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Crossing Kingdoms fusion raises ontological, ethical and poetic questions: how do multi-kingdom cell fusions challenge our categories and understandings of life? This work questions our basic life science and philosophical concepts of divisions among organisms through synthetic biology research by creating yeast-mammalian cell fusions. This talk by artist-researchers, Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr, and Tarsh Bates, from the leading art and biology wet laboratory, SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia, will present new ways of considering the categorization of life in the context of synthetic biology.
Crossing Kingdoms is an interdisciplinary collaboration between artists Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr, Tarsh Bates (SymbioticA, University of Western Australia) and scientists and social scientists Elise Cachat, Jane Calvert, Alistair Elfick, Susan Rosser & Erika Szymanski (SynthSys, University of Edinburgh).
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NOW OPEN:
EXPERIMENTA LIFE FORMS
Plimsoll Gallery UTAS, Hobart Australia
Until 9 May 2021
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Pedagogies of Presence: Practicing Embodied Feminist Moves
Date: Friday 26 March
Time: 3:00pm
Location: SymbioticA
Speaker: Jo Pollitt
This presentation will discuss embodied poetic pedagogies across three education and feminist projects. Working with improvisation as methodology sets out to disrupt normative discourses in educational contexts. As an artist working as a Postdoc in the School of Education, improvisation is the practice that links multiple strands of research in an active “sliding between the codifications of knowledge construction” (Midgelow, 2018). Working with presence informs modes of writing that attend to the pace of emergence and make poetic inquiry possible. [Vida Midgelow, (2018) Keynote Performance. Improvisation Institute: International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, Regina, Canada.]
Jo Pollitt is an interdisciplinary artist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University where she is co-founder of the feminist research collective The Ediths and artist-researcher with #FEAS -Feminist Educators Against Sexism. Her work is grounded in a twenty-year practice of working with improvisation as methodology across multiple performed, choreographic and publishing platforms. Jo’s practice-led scholarship investigates poetic pedagogies of more-than-human education through feminist, anti-colonial, embodied and interdisciplinary methods. She is co-founder of the creative arts publication BIG Kids Magazine and lectures in dance improvisation at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Her debut novella "The dancer in your hands" was released by UWA Publishing in 2020.
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Bricolage wins Media Installation Excellence Award in Japan Media Arts Festival.
Bricolage (2020) by Guy BEN-ARY / Nathan THOMPSON / Sebastian DIECKE. Researched and developed at SymbioticA.
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GUY BEN-ARY INTERVIEWED ON RTR FM
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Call for submissions SLSA2021: 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, United States, September 30-October 3, 2021
Theme: Energy
We seek submissions for panels, individual papers, roundtables, workshops, arts lounges, social networking events, and creative work that deal with topics related to the expanded notion of energy. Energy (etymologically meaning “in or at work, working”) connects us to the most pressing issues of the day: mental and physical vitality or fatigue (individual and collective, personal and political, creative and professional), including in the pandemic; the sources of energy (their extraction, depletion, abundance, and exhaustion; bitcoin mining and computational infrastructures; body energy, its flow, exploitation, alienation, and finitude); scientific theories and creative imagination around the relation between matter and energy (as in electromagnetic, particle, gravitational, acoustic forms of radiation; the living and the non-living, metamorphosis). Submissions are also invited that explore how energy is connected to power, science, and profit, history and war, flesh and labor. Building on previous SLSA topics “Out of Time” and “(Out of) Mind,” in Fall 2021 we also invite you to consider the meaning of having or being “out of energy.”
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Call for Panels | IMPACT
AAANZ 2021 Conference , 8-11 December 2021, The University of Sydney
AAANZ seeks panel proposals that examine the vexed term ‘impact’, in its relation to art, design, film, culture, society and politics. This includes the impact of history, colonialism, politics, technology, capital, nature, migration, and markets on art, design, film, and visual culture. The consequences of impact may be: aesthetic, sensory, social, epistemological, environmental, economic, material, institutional and/or bodily, and may involve consideration of human-animal-plant relations, as well as intersections of race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality.
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Audible Edge Festival of Sound 2021
Presented by Tone List
April 6-18 2021
Perth Australia
Between April 6 to 18 2021, the fifth annual Audible Edge festival is offering unlimited permission to over forty artists to make sound in any way that makes sense to them. We invite you to bear witness to a program of wild contrast and strange encounters: expect hellish noise, unruly jazz and improvisation, gooey avant-folk, sparkly electronics and more. Come move with us between performances, film screenings, surround sound installations and interdisciplinary creations over two weeks of fun and absurdity!
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PROYECTO BIOS: ONLINE EVENT ON BIOART, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE IN ARGENTINA
5-9 April 2021
Hosted by Centro Cultural de la Ciencia from Monday 5th to Friday 9th of April and with the participation of artists & scientists, Bios Project showcases the state of the art of Biotechnology, BioArt and Academical formation in Argentina. Presented as a website and an intensive online program running from April 5th to 9th, it is produced by Objeto a and hosted by the Cultural Center of Science of Buenos Aires.
The initiative aims to create a virtuous circle between Art, Academy and Science by sharing the advances of Biotechnology in the region, showcasing the works of local BioArt artists and serving as a source of information about local Universities programs in the different branches of Biotechnology.
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