[spectre] Arts / Sciences ? - tesla salon, tuesday 16 may 2006

[Andreas Broeckmann]

tesla salon
tuesday, 16 may 2006, 20.30h

arts/sciences?
anna munster in dialogue with geert lovink


In the last five years there has been an intensification of artistic 
engagement with the life sciences. This has lead to new directions in 
media arts practice such as biometric interface design (the work of 
George 
Khut, <http://www.georgekhut.com/cardiomorphologies/description.html>http://www.georgekhut.com/cardiomorphologies/description.html) 
and bioart (Tissue Culture and 
Art, <http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au>http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/).

Can artists critically engage with the biotech economy through this 
kind of art work? Or is this another instance of art merging with 
cultures of cognitive and creative capitalism? What does this bioart 
tell us about the realities and problems of collaboration between the 
arts and sciences?

(in English / entrance free)



Anna Munster is a new media theorist and artist and a senior lecturer 
at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, 
Australia. She is the author of a new book, Materializing New Media 
(University Press of New England, 2006), and has published for the 
journals CTheory, Culture Machine, Australian and New Zealand Journal 
of Art among others as well as contributed to anthologies on new 
media and contemporary art. She works in sound, video and new media 
and has recently exhibited at the Australian Museum and at Eyebeam 
Gallery, New York. She is a member of the editorial committee of the 
online fibreculture journal 
(<http://journal.fibreculture.org>http://journal.fibreculture.org).

Geert Lovink is currently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin.

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