Guest: Oron Catts

Date: 2014-09-07  14:00 ~ 2014-09-07  16:00

Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)

LANGUAGE: English (with Chinese translation)

Due to seat limitation, we reserve the right to give priority to applicants with the most relevant experience. For reservation please email to: membership@chronusartcenter.org (please indicate your full name, contact info and the number of reservation).

ABOUT WORKSHOP:
Tissue engineering and regenerative biology are usually discussed in relation to biomedical research and applications. However in the last decade we witness a shift; there is a growing interest in exploring spin off tissue engineering and regenerative biology technologies for other ends, such as consumer products, art and design. This workshop will explore these developments in areas such as in vitro meat and leather, actuators and bio machine interfaces, speculative design and contemporary artistic practices. Oron Catts will draw on his extensive experience of using tissue engineering for non-medical ends to speculate about what lead to these applications and their possible future development and applications. Avoiding utopian and dystopian postures and using the notion of the contestable, this workshop will also highlight some philosophical and ethical consideration stemming from the use of non-medical approaches to regenerative biology.

ABOUT WORKSHOP LEADER:
Oron Catts is the Director of SymbioticA, The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia.
Oron Catts is an artist, researcher and curator whose pioneering work with the Tissue Culture and Art Project which he established in 1996 is considered a leading biological art project. In 2000 he co-founded SymbioticA, an artistic research centre housed within the School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia. Under Catts’ leadership SymbioticA has gone on to win the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in Hybrid Art (2007) the WA Premier Science Award (2008) and became a Centre for Excellence in 2008. In 2009 Catts was recognised by Thames & Hudson’s “60 Innovators Shaping our Creative Future” book in the category “Beyond Design”, and by Icon Magazine (UK) as one of the top 20 Designers, “making the future and transforming the way we work”.