This is a past event
Film and Visual Culture Research Seminar
Oron Catts
Tissue culture and Art Project, Director of SymbioticA,
The University of Western Australia
will give a talk entitled:
Contextualising Biotechnological Art—Living Biological Objects on the Pedestal
Thursday, 15 March, at 3:30PM
Room 224, Sir Duncan Rice Library
For more than two decades, world leading bio-artist and theorist Oron Catts has been using semi-living tissue technologies and manipulating the fragments of life for artistic expression. Over this time, due to the constant developments in science and technology, the mindsets and relationships to the concept of life has shifted quite significantly. By constructing or growing and displaying a new class of semi-living organism outside of the body we are lead to question our perception of life, identity and our position as humans amongst objects in modern and future culture.
The talk will explore the role played by different cultural institutions, research settings, artists and curators,in their dealings with biotechnological artifacts. It attempts to situate the existence of biotechnological artifacts within a timeline and scale of global scientific, technological, economic and cultural narratives. Oron Catts is the Director of SymbioticA, The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at the University of Western Australia. Catts is an artist, researcher, designer and curator whose pioneering work established the leading biological art project ‘Tissue Culture and Art project’ in 1996.
The talk is free and all are welcome to attend!
- Speaker
- Oron Catts
- Hosted by
- Department of Film and Visual Culture
- Venue
- The Sir Duncan Rice Library, Room 224
- Contact
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The talk is free and all are welcome to attend