A presentation of outstanding wearable technology projects from the School of Design at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. From prototype to final design, Anne Niemetz will be discussing design strategies for creative expressions with wearable technology while presenting projects that have been created by her students, including World of Wearable Art finalist garments.
Art|Sci's current artists-in-residence Lucie Strecker and Klaus Spiess present the performative installation XCurrency as a work in progress. Their artistic research explores experimental currency systems that can negotiate value through their liveness when mediated by interfaces with consumers and their affective resources.
XCurrency is based on Lucie Strecker’s and Klaus Spiess’s previous work ‘Hare’s blood+’ which reflected on artworks incorporating animal relics. The artists designed a synthetic gene from a Joseph Beuys multiple that contained hare’s blood and spliced it into living cells which were put up for auction. The bids at the auction were linked to the living and dying processes of the cells, positioning them as agents in the making of value, in line with a counter-economy envisioned by Joseph Beuys.
Whether proposing exchange by liveness within an auction or as now relating the informational virtuality of the expanded genetic alphabet of XDNA with speculation on the financial markets, the artists always propose a reciprocal qualitative dependency between currencies and their consumers.
Lucie Strecker and Klaus Spiess have been developing transdisciplinary performances and installations that address biopolitical issues for many years. A former endocrinologist, psychosomaticist and medical anthropologist, Klaus Spiess now works as an artist and associate professor at the Medical University of Vienna. Lucie Strecker is an performance artist and researcher and holds a senior postdoc position at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Performances and installations by both artists have been shown at Budascoop Kortrijk, Tanzquartier and Belvedere/21er Haus, Vienna, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, the BEALL Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, the Onassis Cultural Center Athens and the OK Center, Linz, where the duo were awarded an Honorary Mention (2015) at the Prix Ars Electronica. They have published numerous articles on their transdisciplinary performances in Performance Research, Kunstforum International, Springerin and The Lancet, among others.
Beginning at 5:35pm as part of the Embodiment and Evolution panel, Victoria and Takashi will lead a presentation discussing their Birdsong Diamond: Japan installation which took over the Large Space in Tsukuba this past January.
DAWN FAELNAR / VICTORIA VESNA / SIDDHARTH RAMAKRISHNAN
Hox Zodiac Cookbook
November 30, 2016
5:00pm
Fowler Museum
The Hox Zodiac Cookbook comes from a collaboration between Victoria Vesna and neuroscientist Siddharth Ramakrishnan, a dinner series inspired by Hox genes which codify body plans across the animal kingdoms.
Bio-Artist KATHY HIGH will give a public presentation on her creative work in the emerging field of biological art, a field referred to as "bioart". She will introduce her influences and her interests and amazement with bio-art history.
Kathy High is an internationally recognized, award winning interdisciplinary artist from New York currently working with living systems, animals, and biology and art. She produces videos, sculptures and installations around issues of gender and technology, pursues queer and feminist inquiries into areas of bio-science, science fiction, and animal studies.
Her works have been shown in festivals, galleries and museums nationally and abroad, including the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center and Exit Art (NYC), the Science Gallery, (Dublin), NGBK, (Berlin), MASS MoCA (North Adams), Videotage Art Space and Para-Site Gallery (Hong Kong), Festival Transitio_MX (Mexico), among others. She has received awards for her works including grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2010), the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts.
She has had artist residencies with SymbioticA, art and science residency at the University of Western Australia (2009-20), the Bioart Society of Finland, Helsinki and Kilpisjarvi, Finland (2013) and in Hong Kong with the Asian Arts Council (2005).
Her UCLA exhibition opening April 16 is Waste Matters: You Are My Future and explores immune systems as autopoiesis, capable of maintaining themselves, looking at research in fecal microbial transplants and gut biomes to better understand the important function of bacteria in our bodies. This project looks at the metaphor of interspecies love, immunology and bacteria as players.
“The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA”
Thursday, February 16th
3:30 – 5:00 pm
IPAM Lecture Hall, Portola Plaza Building
Book Summary
The wandering gene is a breast cancer mutation, BRCA1.185delAG, which is characteristic of Jews. The book is a historical and scientific investigation that ranges from ancient Palestine and the Spanish Inquisition to the modern DNA lab and the Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses. At the heart of the narrative is a young Hispano woman who struggles with breast cancer until her proud and untimely death.
Copies of Jeff Wheelwright’s book will be available for purchase and the author will be present for signing
Art and Science Symposium | Microwave Festival 2011 藝術及科學研討會 Date 日期 29.10 {Sat六} Time 時間 14:00 - 17:00 Venue 地點 Lecture Theatre 1 (M3017), Level 3, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong 九龍塘歌和老街18號邵逸夫創意媒體中心L3演講廳1(M3107)
SPEAKERS 講者：講者：
I. Irène Hediger 艾蓮．海迪格 Co-Director and curator of the Swiss artists-in-labs program, Head of Sino-Swiss and Indo-Swiss Residency Exchange Project, Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts ICS, Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK), Zürich 瑞士蘇黎世藝術大學「實驗室藝術家」計劃聯合總監及策展人 Think Art – Act Science 思考藝術 - 科學行徑
II. Jill Scott 吉爾．史葛 Co-Director of the Swiss artists-in-labs Program, Professor for Research in the Institute Cultural for Studies in the Arts, Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK), Zürich 瑞士蘇黎世藝術大學藝術文化研究學院研究教授，「實驗室藝術家」計劃聯合總監 Neuromedia 神經媒介
III. Victoria Vesna 維多利亞．韋斯娜 Professor at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, and Founder/Director of the Art | Sci Center + Lab, UCLA School of the Arts and California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) 紐約帕森設計學院教授，加州大學洛杉磯分校藝術及科學中心創辦人及主席 Treading the Art|Sci path: Being in Between 藝術｜科學之路：擲界
IV. Peter Weibel 彼得．韋伯 Chairman and CEO of the ZKM/Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany 德國卡爾斯魯厄ZKM媒體藝術中心主席及行政總裁 The Future of Media: From Visual Media to Social Media 預言媒體未來: 由視覺媒體到社交媒體
