San Francisco, California

http://biotechnique.blogspot.com/2007/10/public-program-bioaesthetics-california.html

Public Program: BioAesthetics, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, November 26, 2007

Presented by:
California College of the Arts
Graduate Fine Arts Program

BioAesthetics

November 26, 2007, 7-9pm
Timken Lecture Hall
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco
Admission: free

For more information contact Sophia Wang, Public Programs Coordinator: [email protected]

Biological entities serve as potent allegories for ideas of origination, purification, and the affirmation of a human role in the order of nature. This panel presentation and discussion will address the aesthetic language and landscapes of complexly regulated biological systems. Speakers include: Oron Catts, founder of SymbioticA, the world’s first collaborative art and science laboratory; Richard Doyle, Professor of English, Science Technology & Society and Information Science & Technology at Penn State University and Beatriz da Costa, Assistant Professor of Arts, Computation, & Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.

Oron Catts will present the early history of tissue culture laboratories and the guiding ideas that have given them form, Professor Doyle will give a presentation entitled “LSDNA” on ethno-psycho-botanical images
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/r/m/rmd12/mendocino.html
LSDNA 2001 version by Richard Doyle

and Beatriz da Costa will speak on biopolitical activism.

Further information:

California College of the Arts:
CCA Events Listing, November 2007

Oron Catts:
http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/
The Tissue Culture & Art Project

Richard Doyle:
Richard Doyle: Mobius
http://www.personal.psu.edu/rmd12/
Penn State, Department of English Faculty Directory
http://english.la.psu.edu/facultystaff/Bio_Doyle.htm
http://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/DoyleBio

Beatriz da Costa:
Beatrizdacosta.net
http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/

Official Website: http://biotechnique.blogspot.com/2007/10/public-program-bioaesthetics-california.html

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