Hello from SymbioticA 16 April 2021
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Germ Gem
Date: 28th May 2021
Time: 3:00pm
Location: SymbioticA, UWA
Speaker: Lucie Ketelsen
Bacterial iridescence is an elusive, extra-ordinary phenomenon with something vital to show us in these precarious times. A unique natural occurrence in which self organization within bacterial colonies results in the creation of living photonic crystals, bacterial iridescence relies on a coming together, an organised signal arising out of the noise of disarray, visible as the bending of light. This phenomenon demonstrates that a microscopic, reductive view alone cannot account for what a bigger picture and a change of perspective affords us. Seeking to span diverse perspectives, scales and media by working directly with bacterial iridescence, this research project asks — how can we design with biological life?
Articulating and making tangible the tensions implicit in navigating the digital through the biological (and vice versa), this diffractive practice aims to understand the phenomenon of bacterial iridescence both at macro and micro scales. The project involves visualising and materializing the differences that emanate from its own relationships with substrate, light, technological apparatuses and other organisms to reveal bacterial iridescence as a uniquely emergent, influencing phenomenon.
Lucie Ketelsen is a designer and sustainability researcher. Her practice considers notions of risk and control in digital, automated and industrial textile production and through subverting traditional practices with unlikely processes and materials.
Ketelsen has a Masters in Textile Design by practice-based research from RMIT University, Melbourne and a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honors in Design. She is currently undertaking a research residency at SymbioticA UWA, looking into the growth of biological structural colour.
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Open call:
Nordic m/other becomings project.
SOLU / Bioart Society seeks artwork proposals involving reproductive futures and how life sciences can transform and challenge our ideas and possibilities of reproduction and the maternal.
The selected work(s) will be included in the m/other becomings exhibition, which will take place in Helsinki during spring 2022.
Deadline for applications is April 30, 2021.
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Mourning Story #2
Svenja Kratz
The Barracks, New Norfolk Tasmania
Until 24 April
Mourning Story #2 is a mixed media exhibition by Tasmanian-based artist Svenja Kratz. The exhibition forms part of an ongoing series of narrative artworks inspired by the artist’s experience of working with cell lines – genetically uniform cells that are considered immortal and can propagate almost indefinitely with appropriate maintenance. In this instance, the potential of cell lines connects to the artist’s personal experience uterine pathology and impending menopause to consider avenues of producing alternative genetic offspring via biotechnological intervention. This includes using cell culture techniques to establish immortalised cells from a large fibroid (benign tumour) growth in her uterus.
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Call for participants:
Environmental Racism is Garbage: A virtual Research-Creation and Art Symposium May 27-29
Environmental Racism is Garbage seeks participants for round table discussions. Panels include:
- Ecological grief is the (natural) response of “grief, pain, sadness, or suffering” that people feel due to the collective or individual loss or anticipated loss of beloved ecosystems, landscapes, seascapes, species, and places, particularly for people who retain close living, working and cultural relationships to the natural environment (Consolo and Ellis 2018).
- Waste on the move: externalizing hazards - invisible communities.
- People as waste – the treatment of marginalized communities, reinforcing inequality (access to food, water, shelter, safety)
- Closing artist’s panel: The role of the artist in activism and disruption.
Participation is free but attendees must register. Registration will be open from April 1- May
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World Sensorium Earth Day Video Challenge
The World Sensorium/Conservancy invites you to tell the world about the scent of a plant that triggers memories for you. We must let others know why and how certain plants and their scents are important to us— how they support our lives and the lives of the world we love. Plant smells are hard to capture in words but communicating your scent triggered memory can help tell this story.
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Forrest fellowships
The application round for a 2022 commencement will be open from 12 April 2021 until 16 May 2021.
The Forrest Research Fellowship program is designed to accelerate opportunity for outstanding researchers by providing:
- Personalised development plans, mentoring and support
- Access to academic and entrepreneurial leaders, generous funding and career opportunity partnerships
- A stimulating intellectual environment in Forrest Hall, a place to live, learn and share with a global community of multi-disciplinary researchers
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ECU Galleries is calling for exhibition proposals for 2022
The two galleries: Spectrum Project Space (SPS) and Gallery25 (G25) provide space for artists at all levels of development. Both are located at the Edith Cowan University Mount Lawley Campus.
Performances, recitals, and events are also encouraged within the restraints of the exhibition calendar.
Application information is attached. Please direct all questions to the ECU Galleries Coordinator.
To find out more about ECU Galleries please visit the website.
Applications close July 31st 2021
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CFP SLSA Energy
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
September 30 – October 3, 2021 (ONLINE)
Extended Deadline: June 1, 2021
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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Congratulations to Brandon Ballengée who was recently awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Ballengée will continue to work with South Louisiana coastal communities and the biodiversity of the Gulf of Mexico on the project Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf.
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ONGOING:
Experimenta Life Forms
Featuring Tissue Culture and Art Project Biomess
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