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| artscience@theinterface 2009 |
| Date | | Fri 27 Mar 2009 | | Time | | 3:30pm | | Venue | | SLQ Auditorium 2 - Enter Level 2 through the security and cloak room.
See Level 2 map here -
Level 2 Map | | Stream | | Innovation and Invention |
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.
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 | Dusan Bojic - As a writer, artscience researcher and interdisciplinary based artist, Dusan Bojic is working to establish a project-based, artscience laboratory and artscience hub in Brisbane.
He will also create a Queensland network to develop and disseminate strategies to improve and support the practice of interdisciplinary collaboration between new media art and the biomedical and clinical sciences.
The INCEPTAG project, through experimentation, exhibition and publication will situate new media art activity within a scientific, social, educational and environmental context in Queensland. INCEPTAG’s mission will also be to develop theoretical discourse about the reintegration of science and art, and to extend public awareness of these new developments and their relevance to culture, industry and education. | | | Keith Armstrong - Keith Armstrong has specialised for 17 years in collaborative, hybrid, new media works with an emphasis on innovative performance forms, site-specific electronic arts, networked interactive installations, alternative interfaces, public arts practices and art-science collaborations.
His ongoing research focuses on how scientific and philosophical ecologies can both influence and direct the design and conception of networked, interactive media artworks.
Keith's artworks have been shown and profiled extensively both in Australia and overseas and he has been the recipient of numerous grants from the public and private sectors.
He was formerly an Australia Council New Media Arts Fellow, a doctoral and Postdoctoral New Media Fellow at QUT’s Creative Industries Faculty and a lead researcher at the ACID Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design.
He is currently a part-time Senior Research Fellow at QUT and an actively practicing freelance new media artist. | | | Svenja Kratz - Svenja Kratz is an interdisciplinary Brisbane-based artist whose art explores the impact of new technologies on concepts of the self, other, and the body, has worked with scientists at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation. Her work is a kind of lament in memory of Alice, an 11 year old girl whose bone cancer cells taken in 1973 are now used widely in bio-experimentation.
Svenja has taught a number of computer and contemporary arts based subjects including Experimental New Media, Experimental Imaging, Creative Interactivity, Digital Publishing, Cyberstudies and Writing for the Web.
She is currently co-teaching Imaging Culture (Experimental Imaging and Video) with Anne Smith at Griffith University while completing her PhD in bio-media arts at QUT. | | | Sam Bucolo - Professor Bucolo is a former Research and Development Director of the Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design.
As Prinicipal Consultant, he provided strategic advice and support, and assisted ACID in transferring knowledge from research activities into strong commercial outcomes.
His recent research has focused on a virtual reality-inspired diversionary therapy for young burns victims, and has been designed for medical device company Diversionary Therapy Technologies. The medical device won for Diversionary Therapy Technologies the Australian leg of the UK-based business competition Technium Challenge International. The project originated at the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design, based at QUT, and involved a range of researchers including doctors, designers, children's authors and engineers. | | | Greg Hooper - Dr Greg Hooper lectures in the Information Environments and Multimedia programs at the University of Queensland. He has a degree in Cognitive Science with a PhD in Psychiatry.
His Synapse residency at the Queensland Brain Institute involves the exploration and exploitation of the interaction between environmental and brain dynamics with application to both generative art systems and neuroscience.
Previous work by Hooper indicates that patterns in the continuous entropy of music signals can be used to classify music genres and the ’sociability’ of music. The more recent EEG sonification showed that brain dynamics reflected structural properties of the music that a listener was hearing, and that these structural properties were themselves audible in music derived from the brain dynamics.
The long term goal is to produce art work derived from the dynamics of an environment such that the art works trigger meaning and emotional states similar to those produced by the original environment. A positive result from this research program would provide a twofold result - the generative art systems and validation of the model(s) underlying the analysis of brain dynamics. | | | Patricia Adams - Patricia Adams’ work has explored the implications for artistic expressions and representations of corporeality of the experimental techniques of biomedical engineering.
Her doctorate focused on aesthetic inquiry into the implications for expressions and representations of corporeality in relation to contemporary biomedical engineering and incorporated stem cell research that entailed the manipulation and redirection of adult stem cell fates.
The project took the form of practical and theoretical investigations into cellular responses, and was framed within the matrices of both an innovative collaborative art/science research model and the evolving process of practice-led arts research.
The exploratory research was discursively located within the system/environment paradigm.
This allowed for boundaries between the philosophic and scientific disciplines of:
1. epistemology
2. ethics and aesthetics and
3. biology and technology to become nodes in a relational network associated with:
1. living and non-living,
2. sentience and consciousness and
3. conceptions of humanness. | | | Oron Catts - 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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