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Co-founder and director of SymbioticA, The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia.
Oron Catts is an artist and researcher at the forefront of the emerging field of Bio-art, whose work addresses the ethical and social implications of life sciences research and application.
n 1996, he co-founded of the Tissue Culture and Art Project with Ionat Zurr, to explore the possibilities of tissue culture manipulation and engineering as a form of artistic inquiry. Their work provocatively investigates the threshold between the living and the non-living.
Among other things, they construct three-dimensional sculpture and installation composed of live tissue. Past projects include semi-living food and leather, in which the “steaks” and “jackets” were cultured in a laboratory setting to ironically interrogate the possibility of victim-less meat-eating and leather production, the Pig Wings Project, in which several pairs of wings made from pig bone marrow stem cells were grown, and Extra Ear-1/4 Scale, in which a miniature replica of Australian performance artist Stelarc's left ear was grown using human cartilage cells.
Oron Catts has been a research fellow at the Harvard Medical School and has published and exhibited work internationally, including NY MoMA. Ars Electronica, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, National Gallery of Victoria (Australia) and much more.
SymbioticA was awarded the inaugural Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in Hybrid Art in 2007 and has a thriving residency and academic programme.
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 | artscience@theinterface 2009 - 3:30pm – 6.30pm
FREE
Hosted by Dusan Bojic, this symposium charts the ways in which art and science gravitate towards one another within contemporary culture.
Practising artists, curators, scientists, and academics will present individual, collaborative and interdisciplinary perspectives on key issues in the field of artscience.
Speakers include Dr Keith Armstrong, Svenja Kratz, Dr Sam Bucolo, Dr Greg Hooper, Dr Patricia Adams and Oron Catts. | | | Artscience - Biology and Art - 7pm – 8:15pm
FREE
What can we get from coupling biology and art?
Oron Catts, a West Australian artist and researcher at the forefront of Bio-art, addresses the ethical and social implications of life sciences research.
His work includes three-dimensional sculpture and installation composed of live tissue, such as the Pig Wings Project in which wings were grown from pig bone marrow stem cells.
Oron explains his unique commentaries on the interface of art and science. | |
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