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Indigenous Australian Plant Use: A Guided Tour through Kings Park.
Speaker: Kings Park and Botanic Garden guide
Friday 6 November, 3.30-5pm
Off campus venue: Kings Park. Meet outside Aspects Gift Shop, next to Fraser’s Restaurant
Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth’s oldest and best loved par...k, is a living collection of the State’s natural and cultural heritage. This special guided tour, lead by the Kings Park Guides, will take the group on a walk to explore the bushland through landscaped parklands and garden’s which demonstrate the State’s botanical diversity. Discover plants which had, and often still have, practical uses for both Aboriginals and Europeans.
Cost is $4 per person towards that goes toward the Kings Park Guides.
For those without transport, there will be cars leaving out the front of School of Anatomy and Human Biology at 3pm.
The guided tour will be followed by a delightful afternoon picnic in the park. Bring a plate or drink.
For more information on Kings Park visit: http://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/
All welcome.
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Indigenous Australian Plant Use: A Guided Tour through Kings Park.
Speaker: Kings Park and Botanic Garden guide
Friday 6 November, 3.30-5pm
Off campus venue: Kings Park. Meet outside Aspects Gift Shop, next to Fraser’s Restaurant
Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth’s oldest and best loved par...k, is a living collection of the State’s natural and cultural heritage. This special guided tour, lead by the Kings Park Guides, will take the group on a walk to explore the bushland through landscaped parklands and garden’s which demonstrate the State’s botanical diversity. Discover plants which had, and often still have, practical uses for both Aboriginals and Europeans.
Cost is $4 per person towards that goes toward the Kings Park Guides.
For those without transport, there will be cars leaving out the front of School of Anatomy and Human Biology at 3pm.
The guided tour will be followed by a delightful afternoon picnic in the park. Bring a plate or drink.
For more information on Kings Park visit: http://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/
All welcome.
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Indigenous Australian Plant Use: A Guided Tour through Kings Park
Time:3:30PM Friday, November 6th
Location:Kings Park. Meet outside Aspects Gift Shop, next to Fraser’s Restaurant
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SymbioticA Friday Seminar >
Indigenous Australian Plant Use: A Guided Tour through Kings Park.
Speaker: Kings Park and Botanic Garden guide
Friday 6 November, 3.30-5pm
Off campus venue: Kings Park. Meet outside Aspects Gift Shop, next to Fraser’s Restaurant
Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth’s oldest and best loved par...k, is a living collection of the State’s natural and cultural heritage. This special guided tour, lead by the Kings Park Guides, will take the group on a walk to explore the bushland through landscaped parklands and garden’s which demonstrate the State’s botanical diversity. Discover plants which had, and often still have, practical uses for both Aboriginals and Europeans.
Cost is $4 per person towards that goes toward the Kings Park Guides.
For those without transport, there will be cars leaving out the front of School of Anatomy and Human Biology at 3pm.
The guided tour will be followed by a delightful afternoon picnic in the park. Bring a plate or drink.
For more information on Kings Park visit: http://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/
All welcome.
Read More
Indigenous Australian Plant Use: A Guided Tour through Kings Park.
Speaker: Kings Park and Botanic Garden guide
Friday 6 November, 3.30-5pm
Off campus venue: Kings Park. Meet outside Aspects Gift Shop, next to Fraser’s Restaurant
Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth’s oldest and best loved par...k, is a living collection of the State’s natural and cultural heritage. This special guided tour, lead by the Kings Park Guides, will take the group on a walk to explore the bushland through landscaped parklands and garden’s which demonstrate the State’s botanical diversity. Discover plants which had, and often still have, practical uses for both Aboriginals and Europeans.
Cost is $4 per person towards that goes toward the Kings Park Guides.
For those without transport, there will be cars leaving out the front of School of Anatomy and Human Biology at 3pm.
The guided tour will be followed by a delightful afternoon picnic in the park. Bring a plate or drink.
For more information on Kings Park visit: http://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/
All welcome.
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Indigenous Australian Plant Use: A Guided Tour through Kings Park
Time:3:30PM Friday, November 6th
Location:Kings Park. Meet outside Aspects Gift Shop, next to Fraser’s Restaurant
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SymbioticA Friday Seminar > Oil Spill Emergency off WA Coast
Speaker: Dr Jill StJohn, Wilderness Society
Friday 30 October, 3.30-5pm
It is over two months since a West Atlas mobile offshore drilling unit leaked oil about 250 kilometres north of Truscott, and 690 kilometres west of Darwin. The fourth attempt at plugging t...he leak has been postponed due to equipment failure. The leak is considered to have covered 45,000 square kilometres of ocean.
Following a mass protest in the city of Perth on Friday morning at 11am, the WA Marine Co-ordinator of the Wilderness Society, Dr Jill St John, will present a paper outlining the enormity of the leak, dangers to the marine life in the vicinity and what individuals can actually do to make a difference.
Dr Jill St John joined the Wilderness Society in 2008 as the Marine Co-ordinator in WA. Jill has a passion for all things marine, especially fish.
Studying and working at both Sydney and James Cook Universities, Jill specialised in the ecology of coral reef fishes. She spent two years researching coral trout in Okinawa, Japan at Seikai National Fisheries Institute before moving to Perth to work as a Research Scientist in the Department of Fisheries. “In Perth I researched iconic temperate reef fish for eight years and often told both recreational and commercial fishers that my real clients were the fish.” Tired of the never-ending blamebrawls between “rec” and “commercial” fishers, Jill decided to leave fisheries to campaign for better marine protection in WA.
With its huge coastline and small population, WA has escaped the marine problems of the more populated east. However, the recruitment failure of the famous rock lobster fishery and the recent oil and gas leak suggests WA is catching up quickly.
All welcome.
FLASH MOB PROTEST
When: This Friday Oct 30th@11am
What: Dress in black, grab a sign & join in protest the beat until it stops= flash mob protest
Where: APPEA office, 190 St. Georges Tce., Perth City.
Why? To say Never Again… to the oil and gas industry & gain better protection for Kimberly marine life!
Please send this around to friends/family/colleges and anyone who is interested!
And print one out for a notice board!
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Speaker: Dr Jill StJohn, Wilderness Society
Friday 30 October, 3.30-5pm
It is over two months since a West Atlas mobile offshore drilling unit leaked oil about 250 kilometres north of Truscott, and 690 kilometres west of Darwin. The fourth attempt at plugging t...he leak has been postponed due to equipment failure. The leak is considered to have covered 45,000 square kilometres of ocean.
Following a mass protest in the city of Perth on Friday morning at 11am, the WA Marine Co-ordinator of the Wilderness Society, Dr Jill St John, will present a paper outlining the enormity of the leak, dangers to the marine life in the vicinity and what individuals can actually do to make a difference.
Dr Jill St John joined the Wilderness Society in 2008 as the Marine Co-ordinator in WA. Jill has a passion for all things marine, especially fish.
Studying and working at both Sydney and James Cook Universities, Jill specialised in the ecology of coral reef fishes. She spent two years researching coral trout in Okinawa, Japan at Seikai National Fisheries Institute before moving to Perth to work as a Research Scientist in the Department of Fisheries. “In Perth I researched iconic temperate reef fish for eight years and often told both recreational and commercial fishers that my real clients were the fish.” Tired of the never-ending blamebrawls between “rec” and “commercial” fishers, Jill decided to leave fisheries to campaign for better marine protection in WA.
With its huge coastline and small population, WA has escaped the marine problems of the more populated east. However, the recruitment failure of the famous rock lobster fishery and the recent oil and gas leak suggests WA is catching up quickly.
All welcome.
FLASH MOB PROTEST
When: This Friday Oct 30th@11am
What: Dress in black, grab a sign & join in protest the beat until it stops= flash mob protest
Where: APPEA office, 190 St. Georges Tce., Perth City.
Why? To say Never Again… to the oil and gas industry & gain better protection for Kimberly marine life!
Please send this around to friends/family/colleges and anyone who is interested!
And print one out for a notice board!
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Time:3:30PM Friday, October 30th
Location:SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia
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Speakers: Michelle Outram, Simon Wise, Tania Visosevic, Cat Hope and Oron Catts
Michelle Outram, Simon Wise, Oron Catts, Tania Visosevic and Cat Hope, delegates on the WASh Program (Western Australia, Shanghai) will share stories on their recent visit to Shanghai, discuss future plans for the program, what it is and wh...y they’re doing it.
The aim of the WASh Program, established by the Australia-China Institute for Culture and the Arts (ACICA), is for West Australian media, electronic and interdisciplinary artists to develop their practices, profiles and arforms by establishing links and exchanges with a variety of institutions, organisations and local artists in Shanghai. The vision is a low-cost, long-term cultural and artistic bridging program.
WASh 2009, funded by the Department of Culture and the Arts, consisted of a delegation of six artists/artsworkers (Cat Hope, Oron Catts, Tania Visosevic, Sam Fox, Simon Wise & Michelle Outram) visiting Shanghai with ACICA Director Sheng Liang in September. During the visit, the group presented seminars/talks and attended meetings and social events, successfully establishing connections with organisations, institutions and artists.
Building from this success, WASh 2010, will be a 'pilot' program of linked artist residencies, lectureships and the presentation of works made possible through support from partner organisations in Shanghai and Australian funding.
All welcome.
Location: SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia.
Contact: Amanda Alderson amanda@symbiotica.uwa.edu.au
or 6488-7116
URL: http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activit
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Michelle Outram, Simon Wise, Oron Catts, Tania Visosevic and Cat Hope, delegates on the WASh Program (Western Australia, Shanghai) will share stories on their recent visit to Shanghai, discuss future plans for the program, what it is and wh...y they’re doing it.
The aim of the WASh Program, established by the Australia-China Institute for Culture and the Arts (ACICA), is for West Australian media, electronic and interdisciplinary artists to develop their practices, profiles and arforms by establishing links and exchanges with a variety of institutions, organisations and local artists in Shanghai. The vision is a low-cost, long-term cultural and artistic bridging program.
WASh 2009, funded by the Department of Culture and the Arts, consisted of a delegation of six artists/artsworkers (Cat Hope, Oron Catts, Tania Visosevic, Sam Fox, Simon Wise & Michelle Outram) visiting Shanghai with ACICA Director Sheng Liang in September. During the visit, the group presented seminars/talks and attended meetings and social events, successfully establishing connections with organisations, institutions and artists.
Building from this success, WASh 2010, will be a 'pilot' program of linked artist residencies, lectureships and the presentation of works made possible through support from partner organisations in Shanghai and Australian funding.
All welcome.
Location: SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia.
Contact: Amanda Alderson amanda@symbiotica.uwa.edu.au
or 6488-7116
URL: http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activit
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Time:3:30PM Friday, October 23rd
Location:WASh Program (Western Australia, Shanghai)
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SymbioticA Friday Seminar > Synthetic Kingdom
Speaker: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
What does design have to offer to a biotech revolution?
Daisy Ginsberg uses design to explore the implications of emerging and unfamiliar technologies, science and services. This includes creating compelling narratives that allow us to quest...ion our unprecedented future, using design to open up new thought areas and unravel the complexity of invisible science. Over the last 18 months Ginsberg has been exploring how the two very disparate scales of molecular science and human design interact. At the Royal College of Art, London, she began researching synthetic biology, the application of engineering principles to biology, the abstraction of the chaos of life into standardised components and systems. Daisy has now moved into the lab, designing a Synthetic Biology Protocol for SymbioticA during her residency.
Prior to the MA Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art, Ginsberg read Architecture at Cambridge University, worked in urbanism and spent a year at Harvard learning about narrative and design research. Her time at the RCA was spent exploring what design - integral to the developments of the Industrial and Information Revolutions - has to ‘offer’ to a Biotech Revolution.
More information: http://www.daisyginsberg.com/
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Speaker: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
What does design have to offer to a biotech revolution?
Daisy Ginsberg uses design to explore the implications of emerging and unfamiliar technologies, science and services. This includes creating compelling narratives that allow us to quest...ion our unprecedented future, using design to open up new thought areas and unravel the complexity of invisible science. Over the last 18 months Ginsberg has been exploring how the two very disparate scales of molecular science and human design interact. At the Royal College of Art, London, she began researching synthetic biology, the application of engineering principles to biology, the abstraction of the chaos of life into standardised components and systems. Daisy has now moved into the lab, designing a Synthetic Biology Protocol for SymbioticA during her residency.
Prior to the MA Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art, Ginsberg read Architecture at Cambridge University, worked in urbanism and spent a year at Harvard learning about narrative and design research. Her time at the RCA was spent exploring what design - integral to the developments of the Industrial and Information Revolutions - has to ‘offer’ to a Biotech Revolution.
More information: http://www.daisyginsberg.com/
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Awash in Spatial Information: Promise, Limitations and Controversy
Speaker: E. J. Neafsey
What is spatial information? How is it constructed, maintained and controlled? With the current social valence of spatial information, it is critical that we have an understanding of its continuing development so we can leverage and... critique it effectively. This talk will seek to deeply engage the audience by way of small group conversations. Questions will focus on issues of deep contention (privacy, access, control, etc.), cultural encoding, possibilities for spatial information and those of interest to the group.
E. J. Neafsey is a Ph.D Candidate in the Environmental Information Science concentration at Cornell University. He completed his undergraduate work at Cornell in January 2005 and received his M.S. degree there in May 2008. He has taught geospatial information science and sustainable agriculture as part of his program at Cornell. Previous research focused on proximal sensing using diffuse-reflectance near-infrared spectroscopy for the estimation of key soil properties to soil classification and survey, in situ, in western and central New York. He is currently developing a spectral database for soil samples in southern New England and prediction models for key soil properties for archived, field benchmark and subaqueous soils in the region. Locally, he is working with the Western Australia Department of Agriculture and Food to update soils maps in the Wheatbelt using field, radiometrics and terrain data and enhance soil carbon measurement techniques.
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Speaker: E. J. Neafsey
What is spatial information? How is it constructed, maintained and controlled? With the current social valence of spatial information, it is critical that we have an understanding of its continuing development so we can leverage and... critique it effectively. This talk will seek to deeply engage the audience by way of small group conversations. Questions will focus on issues of deep contention (privacy, access, control, etc.), cultural encoding, possibilities for spatial information and those of interest to the group.
E. J. Neafsey is a Ph.D Candidate in the Environmental Information Science concentration at Cornell University. He completed his undergraduate work at Cornell in January 2005 and received his M.S. degree there in May 2008. He has taught geospatial information science and sustainable agriculture as part of his program at Cornell. Previous research focused on proximal sensing using diffuse-reflectance near-infrared spectroscopy for the estimation of key soil properties to soil classification and survey, in situ, in western and central New York. He is currently developing a spectral database for soil samples in southern New England and prediction models for key soil properties for archived, field benchmark and subaqueous soils in the region. Locally, he is working with the Western Australia Department of Agriculture and Food to update soils maps in the Wheatbelt using field, radiometrics and terrain data and enhance soil carbon measurement techniques.
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Awash in Spatial Information: Promise, Limitations and Controversy
Time:3:30PM Friday, October 2nd
Location:SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA
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pFARM :: Organic Fetish Biotech
Adam Zaretsky and the pFARM Collective
pFARM :: Organic Fetish Biotech documents the activities of the pFarm collective and its phantasmagoric, organic bio-tech experiments in inter-species fantasies, fetishes and flea-market offerings. Created by Adam Zaretsky and the pFARM Collective, t...he film explores cultural power relations between organic farming, recent advances in new reproductive technology and our domestic conceptions of wildness.
Zaretsky is a PhD Candidate in Electronic Arts at The Department of the Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He is a bioartist, performer, researcher and art theorist whose work focuses on Biology and Art Wet Lab Practice. He was the first international resident in SymbioticA, and not only enthusiastically participated in the labs but was instrumental in establishing SymbioticA's undergraduate academic program with the development of the VIVOART course. His work was shown in SymbioticA’s BIOFEEL exhibition in 2002.
No SymbioticA staff participated in Mr Zaretsky’s fetishes as far as we are aware.
For more information visit: http://www.pfarm.org/
Bring popcorn!
All welcome.
http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activit
Adam Zaretsky and the pFARM Collective
pFARM :: Organic Fetish Biotech documents the activities of the pFarm collective and its phantasmagoric, organic bio-tech experiments in inter-species fantasies, fetishes and flea-market offerings. Created by Adam Zaretsky and the pFARM Collective, t...he film explores cultural power relations between organic farming, recent advances in new reproductive technology and our domestic conceptions of wildness.
Zaretsky is a PhD Candidate in Electronic Arts at The Department of the Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He is a bioartist, performer, researcher and art theorist whose work focuses on Biology and Art Wet Lab Practice. He was the first international resident in SymbioticA, and not only enthusiastically participated in the labs but was instrumental in establishing SymbioticA's undergraduate academic program with the development of the VIVOART course. His work was shown in SymbioticA’s BIOFEEL exhibition in 2002.
No SymbioticA staff participated in Mr Zaretsky’s fetishes as far as we are aware.
For more information visit: http://www.pfarm.org/
Bring popcorn!
All welcome.
http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activit
"pFARM :: Organic Fetish Biotech" film screening
Time:3:30PM Friday, September 25th
Location:SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA
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Andrew Hayim De Vries will tour and discuss his latest art/design project Home Where Project #2 Garage Mahal. The house is designed and constructed using simple and cost effective industrial components and practices addressing the key areas of environmental sustainability to minimise the use of power and water and the ...necessity for maintenance of the property.
The Vertical Greenwalls, vegetable and other gardens on the property are watered by an integrated greywater recycling and rainwater catchment and subterranean drainage system. Through the combined use of natural ventilation and internal insulation, the Vertical Greenwalls and passive solar design throughout the property, Garage Mahal offers a cool sanctuary in the often harsh summer of Western Australia and warmth during winter months.
Andrew Hayim De Vries is a West Australian artist and designer based in Fremantle, W.A. Home Where Project #1 100 Hubble Street was an eclectic example of art, architecture and urban recycling that evolved over a period of 20 years in East Fremantle.
For more information visit:
Garage Mahal: http://garagemahalhome.com/
100 Hubble Street: http://www.hayimdevries.com/pages/projec
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The Vertical Greenwalls, vegetable and other gardens on the property are watered by an integrated greywater recycling and rainwater catchment and subterranean drainage system. Through the combined use of natural ventilation and internal insulation, the Vertical Greenwalls and passive solar design throughout the property, Garage Mahal offers a cool sanctuary in the often harsh summer of Western Australia and warmth during winter months.
Andrew Hayim De Vries is a West Australian artist and designer based in Fremantle, W.A. Home Where Project #1 100 Hubble Street was an eclectic example of art, architecture and urban recycling that evolved over a period of 20 years in East Fremantle.
For more information visit:
Garage Mahal: http://garagemahalhome.com/
100 Hubble Street: http://www.hayimdevries.com/pages/projec
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Speaker: Andrew Hayim De Vries at the Garage Mahal, Fremantle
Time:3:30PM Friday, September 11th
Location:Garage Mahal
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There is no way that a vague and jargon-heavy paragraph will give you any idea of what an artist's work will be. What is the purpose of a description of the work - is it meant to provoke thoughts? questions? confusion? Certainly not to actually tell the viewer what the work is or does. Because if I told you what the ...work was, why would you need to see it? Words like 'space', 'body' and 'relation' have all but no content when they are used to generalize in place of specific and meaningful gestures. Filling up a paragraph with words is a formal gesture, a placeholder occupying a comfortable location in the suburban neighbourhood of the work, not too close, and perhaps just civilly sharing a fence or some bushes.
Joshua Schwebel is a Canadian artist in the third person, currently in residence at PICA.
He will try to show you only the best,
only the best,
none of the worst.
http://joshuaschwebel.com/
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Joshua Schwebel is a Canadian artist in the third person, currently in residence at PICA.
He will try to show you only the best,
only the best,
none of the worst.
http://joshuaschwebel.com/
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Speaker: Josh Schwebel
Time:3:30PM Thursday, September 3rd
Location:SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA
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Dr Perdita Phillips is showing the results of her 2009 Art Meets Vet Science Artist in Residency program at Murdoch University’s School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences. Her X-ray sculptures, photographs and drawings will be situated in both the clinical and research areas. Working on themes of internal and extern...al surfaces the artist has investigated diagnostic palpation as the point of contact between human and nonhuman worlds.
The artist floor talk will be followed by the exhibition opening at 5pm.
Perdita Phillips artistic practice includes sculpture, photography, drawings, sound, video and installation. Whilst materially diverse, underlying themes of ecological processes, and a commitment to a resensitisation to the physical environment, are apparent. Working with objects, environments, found things and made things, Perdy creates a world where everyday entities and events are brought out of their invisibility.
Perdy was an Australia Council SymbioticA resident in 2007/2008 and is undertaking a SymbioticA Adaptation residency, funded by the Sidney Myer Fund and The Australia Council InterArts Office in 2009.
Followed by In Vetland Exhibition opening 5- 7:30pm
Please note this week’s talk is being held at Murdoch University
In Vetland runs from 29 August to 25 September, Monday to Friday 9:00am — 5:00pm, Saturday and Sunday 12:00pm — 5:00pm, starting at the Anatomy Museum on the ground floor of the Vet Building, School of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences at Murdoch University.
Please RSVP to the exhibition opening for catering purposes vettrust@murdoch.edu.au or telephone 9360 2731
For more information visit:
www.perditaphillips.com/in_vetland_blog and www.veterinarytrust.murdoch.edu.au
All welcome.
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The artist floor talk will be followed by the exhibition opening at 5pm.
Perdita Phillips artistic practice includes sculpture, photography, drawings, sound, video and installation. Whilst materially diverse, underlying themes of ecological processes, and a commitment to a resensitisation to the physical environment, are apparent. Working with objects, environments, found things and made things, Perdy creates a world where everyday entities and events are brought out of their invisibility.
Perdy was an Australia Council SymbioticA resident in 2007/2008 and is undertaking a SymbioticA Adaptation residency, funded by the Sidney Myer Fund and The Australia Council InterArts Office in 2009.
Followed by In Vetland Exhibition opening 5- 7:30pm
Please note this week’s talk is being held at Murdoch University
In Vetland runs from 29 August to 25 September, Monday to Friday 9:00am — 5:00pm, Saturday and Sunday 12:00pm — 5:00pm, starting at the Anatomy Museum on the ground floor of the Vet Building, School of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences at Murdoch University.
Please RSVP to the exhibition opening for catering purposes vettrust@murdoch.edu.au or telephone 9360 2731
For more information visit:
www.perditaphillips.com/in_vetland_blog and www.veterinarytrust.murdoch.edu.au
All welcome.
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Speaker: Perdita Phillips. Followed by In Vetland exhibition opening
Time:3:30PM Friday, August 28th
Location:Anatomy Museum- ground floor of Vet Building, Murdoch University
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Waste-for-Life (WLF) is a loosely joined network of scientists, engineers, educators, designers, cooperatives, innovators, and documentarians that work internationally and inter-disciplinarily to develop poverty-reducing solutions to environmental and social problems. WFL works at the intersection of waste and poverty ...using low-threshold/low-cost technologies to add value to resources that are commonly considered harmful or of minimal worth, but are often the source of livelihood for society’s poorest members. Two WFL team members visited Buenos Aires for six months in 2007 and again in 2008 for an additional month. There, they met and worked with several cartonero or waste-picker cooperatives. This talk presents a view of these cooperatives through the lens of WFL and the potential affect the intervention may have on co-ops working within Buenos Aires vast garbage collection and recycling machinery.
Professor Caroline Baillie has recently been recruited as Chair of Engineering Education for the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at The University of Western Australia. Caroline is particularly interested in ways in which science and engineering can help to create solutions for the environment as well as social problems. Before coming to Perth, Caroline was Chair of Engineering Education Research and Development at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, where she was also cross appointed into Chemical Engineering, Sociology and Women's studies. Formerly she was lecturer at Imperial College, UK and the University of Sydney, as well as Deputy Director of the Materials Subject centre, part of the Learning and Teaching support network in the UK.
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Professor Caroline Baillie has recently been recruited as Chair of Engineering Education for the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at The University of Western Australia. Caroline is particularly interested in ways in which science and engineering can help to create solutions for the environment as well as social problems. Before coming to Perth, Caroline was Chair of Engineering Education Research and Development at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, where she was also cross appointed into Chemical Engineering, Sociology and Women's studies. Formerly she was lecturer at Imperial College, UK and the University of Sydney, as well as Deputy Director of the Materials Subject centre, part of the Learning and Teaching support network in the UK.
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Speaker: Caroline Baillie
Time:3:30PM Friday, August 21st
Location:SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA
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Australian artist Boo Chapple will discuss the 2009 Honours Class “BioArt: contemporary art & the life sciences” she recently ran at The Arts & Genomics Centre (TAGC), in Leiden, The Netherlands. The Class was an art and science crossover lab that encouraged students from various disciplines to foster interdisciplinary... exploration of the intersections between art, and life through hands-on laboratory protocols, and critical readings. During her time at TAGC, Boo also cooperated with Leiden University Prof. Dr Ron de Kloet in an ArtScience project on stress.
Boo Chapple is an artist and researcher whose conceptually driven practice has been enacted across a diverse range of media including sound (installation, performance, design), performance installation, video, and art/science projects. Boo was a SymbioticA resident in 2004 and 2006. The bone audio speakers she researched during her year long Australia Council SymbioticA residency will be exhibited in “Art in the Age of Nanotechnology” from the 24 September - 29 November 2009 at the John Curtin Gallery. In 2007-08 she undertook at 12 month residency at the Design Research Institute, RMIT.
She has received several sound commissions (ABC/The Listening Room, Performance Space) and exhibited work in national and international contexts, including Ars Electronica, the Beijing Biennale of Architecture, the San Francisco MoMA and Enter3, Prague. She has been an invited panellist at the Whitney Museum, an invited speaker for Eyebeam, NYC and presented work at numerous national and international art events and conferences. Her writing and art projects have been published in Leonardo Journal, Aminima, Art of the Biotech Era and Plastic Green.
For more information on Boo’s practice, visit: http://residualsoup.org
All welcome.
http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activit
Boo Chapple is an artist and researcher whose conceptually driven practice has been enacted across a diverse range of media including sound (installation, performance, design), performance installation, video, and art/science projects. Boo was a SymbioticA resident in 2004 and 2006. The bone audio speakers she researched during her year long Australia Council SymbioticA residency will be exhibited in “Art in the Age of Nanotechnology” from the 24 September - 29 November 2009 at the John Curtin Gallery. In 2007-08 she undertook at 12 month residency at the Design Research Institute, RMIT.
She has received several sound commissions (ABC/The Listening Room, Performance Space) and exhibited work in national and international contexts, including Ars Electronica, the Beijing Biennale of Architecture, the San Francisco MoMA and Enter3, Prague. She has been an invited panellist at the Whitney Museum, an invited speaker for Eyebeam, NYC and presented work at numerous national and international art events and conferences. Her writing and art projects have been published in Leonardo Journal, Aminima, Art of the Biotech Era and Plastic Green.
For more information on Boo’s practice, visit: http://residualsoup.org
All welcome.
http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activit
Speaker: Boo Chapple
Time:3:30PM Friday, August 14th
Location:SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA
SymbioticA SymbioticA BioTech Art Workshop: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 21 AUGUST. see www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/apply for more info
Source: www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au
SymbioticA’s BioTech Art Workshop is an introduction to biological techniques and issues surrounding the manipulation of living systems. Artists and researchers from various disciplines engage in the biological science lab to utilise language and techniques into their practice and research. ...
