WORKSHOPS
Workshop with Oron Catts Section 1
Nov 28 2018 | 9 - 11am

333 E River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States

beaker wirh specimin in it next to text "Oron Catts Biology on the Pedestal"

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Workshop: Tissue Engineering | November 28, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. & November 29, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
This workshop is for artists and humanities practitioners.

Tissue engineering enables researchers to grow three-dimensional living tissues of varying sizes, shapes, and types. These technologies escape the biomedical research labs, as increasing numbers of commercial biological products enter free markets, creating a major influence on popular perceptions of life, death, body, self, and medical thinking. Due to this transition from scientific labs to popular culture, tissue engineering technologies have increasingly become an area for artistic engagement.

This two-day intensive workshop will introduce artists and humanities practitioners to basic principles of animal tissue culture and tissue engineering, as well as to its history in science and arts. For more information, contact Boris Oicherman (boris@umn.edu).

 

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Oron Catts

About the Artist

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.

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