SymbioticA Friday Seminar_

Date 22nd August 2008 - 22nd August 2008
Tags event, Australia, seminar

SymbioticA 'The art and science collaborative research laboratory'

Speaker: Oron Catts
22nd August
3.30-5pm

An introduction to the work undertaken at SymbioticA the first research laboratory that enables artists to engage in wet biology practices in a biological science department.

SymbioticA, the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, is an artistic laboratory dedicated to the research, learning and critique of life sciences. SymbioticA is the first research laboratory of its kind in the world, in that it enables artists to engage in wet biology practices in a biological science department. Renowned in particular for pioneering the field of art and biology, SymbioticA provides an opportunity for researchers to pursue curiosity-based explorations free of the demands and constraints associated with the current culture of scientific research while still complying with regulations. SymbioticA also offers a new means of artistic inquiry, one in which artists actively use the tools and technologies of science, not just to comment about them, but also to explore their possibilities.

All welcome.


Websites

http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/friday_afternoons

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