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<nettime> sentient creatures3: Bio Art at waag |
Joe Davis and Robert Zwijnenberg in Sentient Creatures On the 29th of October the third Sentient Creatures series will start, organized by artist Graham Smith at the anatomical theatre of the waag building in Amsterdam. In this series, two guests will discuss current issues in the arts, techniology and science. The first evening is dedicated to Bio-Art, a new genre that combines art and genomics and will feature artist Joe Davis and professor Robert Zwijnenberg. Sending data of vaginal contractions of ballerina’s into space, catching one-celled organisms with a (nano-) fishing-rod and a teremin that is triggered by light: a small selection of projects, initiated by Joe Davis. Davis is also a permanent artist in residence at MIT and might best be described as the captain Jack Sparrow of the art world. With his DIY peg leg (Davis lost his leg during an alligator-attack when fishing with his brother) that occasionally doubles as bottle-opener and his vivid imagination, Davis engages in a variety of projects that all combine (high) technology with art in the most fascinating and unpredictable ways. He was among the first artists interested in combining art with genomics and worked intensively with the e-coli bacteria. Davis will show his recent endeavors and discuss his current role as the godfather of Bio-Art. Also present on the 29th, professor Rob Zwijnenberg, who invited Davis for the first conference of the only Dutch Centre for Arts and Genomics in 2006. Mr. Zwijnenberg will address the question whether artists that permeate into or participate in the practice of the natural science (and the art that these artists produce) may be of relevance to the humanities. Does this new form of art provide the humanities an original and unexpected direct access to the life sciences, thus allowing scholars to participate in debates on these sciences from their own humanities perspective? What can the humanities learn from the results of completed and ongoing collaborative projects between artists and scientists? What do the humanities actually expect from these collaborations and why are they necessary? Joe Davis is a permanent artist in residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has recently been asked to devise a monument for the victims of Katrina in Mississippi. Robert Zwijnenberg is professor of history and theory of contemporary art in relation to the sciences and technology at Leiden University and Maastricht University. Zwijnenberg is director of The Arts and Genomics Centre (www.artsgenomics.org) where: Anatomickal Theatre, waag building, nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam when: 29th of October 2008, 8 pm - 10 pm admission: free stream: www.killertv.nl KillerTV is supported by: SNS Reaal Fonds, Interregeling, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Pauwhoffonds en MultimediaN # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org