333 E River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States
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WORKSHOP TWO: Life in Arts and Sciences: A Hands-On Workshop | November 30, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
This workshop is for students and scholars of life sciences.
In the life sciences, researchers study living systems by removing them from their environment and placing them in the sterile confines of the lab. Art often operates similarly: objects in galleries are isolated from every day life, giving viewers a new perspective. This workshop, designed for students and scholars of life sciences, blends these two worlds. It examines a practice from daily work in the lab—working in a sterile environment—and situates it in a museum gallery through the construction of a DIY sterile hood. This workshop will cover issues concerning sterility in science and art. It will also explore ways that art is utilizing the knowledge and application of life sciences to inform us about the nature of our bodies and the concept of life.
For more information, contact Boris Oicherman (boris@umn.edu).
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Oron Catts
Oron Catts is an artist, researcher, designer, and curator whose pioneering work with the Tissue Culture and Art Project (established in 1996) is considered a leading biological art project. In 2000 he co-founded SymbioticA, a biological art research center at The University of Western Australia.
Under Catts’s leadership, SymbioticA has gone on to win the inaugural Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in Hybrid Art (2007), the WA Premier Science Award (2008), and became a Centre for Excellence in 2008.
