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Life, death & biotechnia _
Date 7th April 2009
Tags biotech, EAF, symposium, bio-art
Life, death & biotechnia is a one-day symposium that brings together the artists participating in the Biotech Art – Revisited project, along with others involved in the discourses surrounding art/science collaborations. Many of the speakers were involved in the EAF's 2004 Art in the Biotech Era project, and their work is represented in the 2008 publication of the same name. The symposium offers a chance for the participants and the audience to consider the changes in the cultural landscape relating to art and biotechnology over the last five years. The artists will present their most recent questions, understandings and misunderstandings around areas as broad and opaque as ethical relationships to partial life, the endless limitations and opportunities for artists and scientists to (mis)understand the others disciplines, challenges for all kinds of taxonomies, the methods and manners of the 'infiltration' of biotechnology into every facet of ordinary life.
Wednesday 8th April
10am – 5pm
Venue: Mercury Cinema
Admission is free. Please book
(email info at eaf.asn.au or 08 8211 7508)
Convenors: Melentie Pandilovski & Linda Cooper
Speakers: Marcello Costa FAA, Professor of Neurophysiology, Flinders University; Linda Cooper, Director of the Bragg Initiative in the Department of the Premier and Cabinet South Aust; Niki Sperou, Catherine Fargher & Terumi Narushima, Oron Catts, Paul Thomas, Tanja Visosevic, Vicki Sowry, Andre Brodyk, Trish Adams. Invited respondent, Denise Kera, National University Singapore.
