As part of Science Gallery’s new exhibition VISCERAL: THE LIVING ART EXPERIMENT, ground-breaking art science lab SymbioticA will host a symposium that will cover cultural strategies that engage with and scrutinise development in the life sciences, with a particular emphasis on hands-on artistic research embedded within a biological laboratory. Two of SymbioticA’s co-founders and a selection of SymbioticA residents will speak on art and biology from different perspectives: political, ethical, historical, aesthetical and more.

Free event – For booking please check out www.sciencegallery.com/events

Speakers include:

Oron Catts, (AU)

Co-founder and Director of SymbioticA – the Centre of Excellence in biological Arts, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, the University of Western Australia. Co-curator of Visceral – the Living Art Experiment.

Kira O’Reilly (UK)

Artist

Adam Zaretsky (USA)

Artist and the headmaster of VASTAL (The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd.).

Marta de-Menezes (PRT)

Artist. Director of Ectopia – an Art and Science Centre in Portugal.

Deborah Dixon (UK)

Professor, Iinstitute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Wales.

Tagny Duff (CAN)

Artist and Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, Department at Concordia University and Director of Fluxmedia lab.

Miranda D. Grounds (AUS)

Professor, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia (UWA). Co-Founder of SymbioticA – the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, at the University of Western Australia.

Adele Senior (UK)

Lecturer at the Department of Drama, College of Humanities, University of Exeter.

Meredith Walsh (AUS)

Philosopher/Artist

Jennifer Willet (CAN)

Artist. Assistant Professor in the School of Visual Arts, at The University of Windsor in Canada. Founder of INCUBATOR: Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Ecology at The University of Windsor.

Ionat Zurr (AUS)

Artist/Researcher at SymbioticA – the Centre of Excellence in biological Arts, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, the University of Western Australia. Co-curator of Visceral – the Living Art Experiment.