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- Plastic Futures: biological li...
The Design Research Institute, RMIT...
Friday, November 20 at 2:00pm - SymbioticA Friday Seminar > W...
SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, Schoo...
Friday, November 13 at 3:00pm - SymbioticA Friday Seminar
Kings Park. Meet outside Aspects Gi...
Friday, November 6 at 3:30pm - SymbioticA Friday Seminar > Oi...
SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, Schoo...
Friday, October 30 at 3:30pm - SymbioticA Friday Seminar >
WASh Program (Western Australia, Sh...
Friday, October 23 at 3:30pm - SymbioticA Friday Seminar > S...
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Friday, October 16 at 3:30pm - SymbioticA Friday Seminar >
SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, Schoo...
Friday, October 2 at 3:30pm - SymbioticA Friday Seminar
SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, Schoo...
Friday, September 25 at 3:30pm - SymbioticA Friday Seminar > Ga...
Garage Mahal
Friday, September 11 at 3:30pm - SymbioticA Thursday Seminar > ...
SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, Schoo...
Thursday, September 3 at 3:30pm
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- SymbioticA Friday Seminar > The Immortalization of Billy Apple: A science art collaboration 9:27pm Feb 3
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Plastic Futures: biological life, art and design innovation
A public symposium discussion addressing intersections of biotechnology, art, design and cultural change, and the outcomes of SymbioticA’s intensive Biotechnology Workshop hosted by RMIT University.
NOVEMBER 20, 2009, 2pm – 5pm; Open to the public
http://www.symb...iotica.uwa.edu.au/ http://liveness.org/plasticfutures
“We overlook only too often the fact that a living being may also be regarded as raw material, as something plastic, something that may be shaped and altered.” H. G. Wells 1895
“...the very borders between life and death, borders that are still so final, have become so open to negotiation and dispute. As indeed are all those entities such as tissues and ova, hovering between life and death, oscillating between vitality in a test tube or vat of information in a database or biobank…" Nikolas Rose, 2007.
The plasticity of biological life – its ability to change and evolve – is being entertained by new and rapidly accelerating technical capacity. Clearly, this raises new challenges, problems and opportunities that require careful attention.
Artists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, and others at SymbioticA; Centre for Excellence in Biological Arts (UWA), have been international leaders in engaging with these issues through artistic practice. Increasingly the role designers may have to play in this terrain is being explored and called into question.
From November 16th to 20th, RMIT’s School of Applied Sciences (BioSciences) and the School of Architecture and Design are hosting a one week intensive SymbioticA Biotech Workshop. This workshop is an introduction to biological techniques and issues surrounding the manipulation of living systems, offering a practical and theoretical introduction to the basics of biological techniques and the creation of biological art and design. Through applied ‘hands-on’ methods, the broader philosophical and ethical implications of human intervention with other living things are explored.
Over the week, reports, comments and thoughts arising during the workshop will be posted to a blog, including a twitter feed. People can follow the action at: http://liveness.org/plasticfutures
This workshop closes with the wider discussion of an open forum. The aim of this forum will be to discuss and reflect upon the workshop, including the broader cultural, research and pedagogical issues it raises, for the benefit of both participants and a wider interested public.
Convened by Oron Catts and Pia Ednie-Brown
Time & Location:
2pm – 5pm
The Design Research Institute,
RMIT University,
Design Hub Gallery
Ground floor, Building 91, 110 Victoria Street, Melbourne.
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A public symposium discussion addressing intersections of biotechnology, art, design and cultural change, and the outcomes of SymbioticA’s intensive Biotechnology Workshop hosted by RMIT University.
NOVEMBER 20, 2009, 2pm – 5pm; Open to the public
http://www.symb...iotica.uwa.edu.au/ http://liveness.org/plasticfutures
“We overlook only too often the fact that a living being may also be regarded as raw material, as something plastic, something that may be shaped and altered.” H. G. Wells 1895
“...the very borders between life and death, borders that are still so final, have become so open to negotiation and dispute. As indeed are all those entities such as tissues and ova, hovering between life and death, oscillating between vitality in a test tube or vat of information in a database or biobank…" Nikolas Rose, 2007.
The plasticity of biological life – its ability to change and evolve – is being entertained by new and rapidly accelerating technical capacity. Clearly, this raises new challenges, problems and opportunities that require careful attention.
Artists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, and others at SymbioticA; Centre for Excellence in Biological Arts (UWA), have been international leaders in engaging with these issues through artistic practice. Increasingly the role designers may have to play in this terrain is being explored and called into question.
From November 16th to 20th, RMIT’s School of Applied Sciences (BioSciences) and the School of Architecture and Design are hosting a one week intensive SymbioticA Biotech Workshop. This workshop is an introduction to biological techniques and issues surrounding the manipulation of living systems, offering a practical and theoretical introduction to the basics of biological techniques and the creation of biological art and design. Through applied ‘hands-on’ methods, the broader philosophical and ethical implications of human intervention with other living things are explored.
Over the week, reports, comments and thoughts arising during the workshop will be posted to a blog, including a twitter feed. People can follow the action at: http://liveness.org/plasticfutures
This workshop closes with the wider discussion of an open forum. The aim of this forum will be to discuss and reflect upon the workshop, including the broader cultural, research and pedagogical issues it raises, for the benefit of both participants and a wider interested public.
Convened by Oron Catts and Pia Ednie-Brown
Time & Location:
2pm – 5pm
The Design Research Institute,
RMIT University,
Design Hub Gallery
Ground floor, Building 91, 110 Victoria Street, Melbourne.
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A public symposium discussion addressing intersections of biotechnology, art, design and cultural change, and the outcomes of SymbioticA’s intensive Biotechnology Workshop hosted by RMIT University.
Time:2:00PM Friday, November 20th
Location:The Design Research Institute, RMIT University, Design Hub Gallery Ground floor, Building 91, 110 Victoria Street, Melbourne
SymbioticA day 4 Biotech Art Workshop: organ farming, tissue culturing, hype and expectations. all before morning tea. http://liveness.org/plasticfutures/
SymbioticA Check out the action at the BioTech Art Workshop: http://liveness.org/plasticfutures/
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SymbioticA Friday Seminar > What is Science and Technology Studies?
Speaker: Hannah Rogers
Friday 13 November, 3- 4.30pm*
*Please note change to time to 3pm
Can a bridge be racist? Is objectivity stable? And what is really going on in science labs? While this talk won't answer these questions, it will examine how thinkers... in Science & Technology Studies have approached these questions.
What is Science and Technology Studies? What does Science and Technology studies have to offer artists working with science and technology? Hannah Rogers will give an overview of the field and summarize major streams of thought in S&TS, with an eye to offering good narratives from the history, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology of science- to interest artists working with science and scientists considering their own histories, in the form of histories and theoretical frameworks.
Hannah is a PhD candidate in Science and Technology Studies at Cornell
University and is currently completing her fieldwork as a resident at SymbioticA.
She received her Master's degree in 2006 from Cornell for a study of tactical media practitioners. Her research at SymbioticA is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Society for Humanities.
All welcome.
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Speaker: Hannah Rogers
Friday 13 November, 3- 4.30pm*
*Please note change to time to 3pm
Can a bridge be racist? Is objectivity stable? And what is really going on in science labs? While this talk won't answer these questions, it will examine how thinkers... in Science & Technology Studies have approached these questions.
What is Science and Technology Studies? What does Science and Technology studies have to offer artists working with science and technology? Hannah Rogers will give an overview of the field and summarize major streams of thought in S&TS, with an eye to offering good narratives from the history, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology of science- to interest artists working with science and scientists considering their own histories, in the form of histories and theoretical frameworks.
Hannah is a PhD candidate in Science and Technology Studies at Cornell
University and is currently completing her fieldwork as a resident at SymbioticA.
She received her Master's degree in 2006 from Cornell for a study of tactical media practitioners. Her research at SymbioticA is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Society for Humanities.
All welcome.
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Speaker: Hannah Rogers
Time:3:00PM Friday, November 13th
Location:SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia.
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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.
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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.
Read More
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.
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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
SymbioticA
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
