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To: Joanne Roberts <[log in to unmask]>
Time: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:27:34 +0000
Subject: ART AND THE LIFE SCIENCES SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT


Dear Joanne Roberts

I thought this announcement would be of interest to our international
cyber-society participants.

Yours,
Irina Aristarkhova


ART AND THE LIFE SCIENCES
A SYMPOSIUM

DATE & TIME:

Sunday, 11 March, 2001; 2-5 pm.

VENUE:

Singapore Art Museum
71 Bras Basah Road Singapore 189 555

In recent years there have been dramatic developments in the life
sciences especially in the fields of biotechnologies, genetic
engineering, bio-informatics (e.g. genomics & proteomics),
bio-computing (e.g. DNA chip) and in nanotechnologies (e.g. molecular
manufacturing). These technological developments have introduced a
variety of methods, materials, processes and concerns for artistic
responses and manipulations. Contemporary artistic responses to these
developments in life sciences range from those that actively employ
them to produce art (e.g. DNA music, transgenic art, “artists’ genes”,
computer-generated artificial life and human-machine interfaces) to
those that aesthetically articulate the social, cultural and ethical
concerns regarding these technologies. The symposium seeks to explore
and expand on the aesthetic possibilities of the life sciences with
particular attention to the various socio-cultural, political and
ethical ramifications of such artistic development!
s.


Speakers:

FAITH WILDING
Director of Art, Carlow College, USA
Fellow, Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie-Mellon University


Artist and educator, Faith Wilding has been critically engaging new
bio-technologies in art exhibitions in museums and galleries
world-wide. Among them Museum of Contemporary Art, Toulouse, France;
Expo 2000; Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria; Rensselear Institute
of Technology, New York; Zentrum fur Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe,
Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Academy of Art,
Warsaw, Poland; Woman’s Building, Los Angeles; Cal Arts, Los Angeles;
Documenta X, Kassel, Germany; Whitney Museum of Art, New York. Faith
Wilding will be an Artist-in-Residence at the Department of Art Theory
& Art History, School of Fine Art, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
(Singapore) between 6-16 March, 2001.

GUNALAN NADARAJAN
Art Theorist and Independent Curator

Gunalan Nadarajan is an independent art theorist, writer and curator.
He has curated several art exhibitions, most notably ‘Ambulations’
(1999) and will be curating a major cyberarts exhibition as part of
the biennial NOKIA Singapore Art 2001/02 which will feature works in
VR environments, telematic robotics, net-art, and bio-tech art.
Gunalan Nadarajan is actively involved in the development of cyberarts
in Singapore.

IRINA ARISTARKHOVA
Senior Lecturer, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts

Irina Aristarkhova teaches courses in Cybertheory, Cyberculture,
Technology & Embodiment, Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory and
Feminist Theory. She is a contributing editor to the Moscow-based
journal Radek: Art, Theory, Politics, and edited a book “Woman Does
Not Exist: Contemporary Studies in Sexual Difference” (Syktyvkar
University Press & Moscow Center for Women’s Studies, 1999). In April
2001 Irina Aristarkhova will be joining National University of
Singapore, to conduct studio-based courses in cyberart and
cyberculture.

CHIA TET FATT
Department of Science and Technology Education
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Dr. Chia is a molecular geneticist specialising in the field of
recombinant DNA technology and genetic engineering of plants. His
primary speciality, where majority of his discoveries has occurred is
in orchids. Dr Chia’s academic interests are wide, ranging from
medicinal plants to gene therapy and development of novel educational
system. His scientific education and career took place at the National
University of Singapore and the Institute of Molecular and Cell
Biology. Dr Chia is presently an Associate Professor at the National
Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University.

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