NAS Annuncia un Simposio Virtuale sulla cultura Visuale e le Bioscienze
L’ufficio delle Esposizioni e dei Programmi Culturali della National Academy of Sciences co-ospiterà il “Virtual Symposium on Visual Culture and Bioscience” dal 5 al 13 marzo, 2007, con il “Center for Art and Visual Culture” all’Università del Maryland a Baltimore County (UMBC). Durante questo evento, che avverrà in internet, esperti mondiali discuteranno sull’intersezione tra arti visive e scienza della vita: un gruppo di 30 partecipanti, compresi artisti, scienziati, storici, etici, curatori, sociologi e scrittori, presenteranno una varietà di prospettive su argomenti quali artisti in laboratorio, immagini d’arte e bioscienza, e le implicazioni sociologiche riguardo la crescita di connessioni tra i due campi.
La discussione, che sarà condotta attraverso un moderatore, sarà accessibile online al seguente indirizzo: www.visualcultureandbioscience.org.
Suzanne Anker, è un’artista visiva e una teorica che lavora con immagini genetiche, sarà la moderatrice della discussione. E’ co-autrice del “The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2004)” Ha curato “Gene Culture: Molecular Metaphor in Contemporary Art” (Fordham University, 1994), la prima mostra interamente dedicate all’intersezione tra arte e genetica. Anker insegna stroria dell’arte e teoria alla scuola di Visual Arts a New York City dove é dove ha la cattedra e direttrice dell’ ” ArtLab23″. E’ anche l’ospite di “BioBlurb su WPS1 Art Radio”. Questo evento è stato reso possible grazie al generoso supporto di Ralph S. O ‘Connor e della Fondazione Marian e Speros Martel. E’ sponsorizzato dall’ “Office of Exhibitions and Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences and UMBC”. Da più di 20 anni l’ “Office of Exhibitions and Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences” ha sponsorizzato esposizioni, concerti, e altri eventi che esplorano rapporti tra le arti e le scienze.
Partecipanti al Simposio:
Max Aguilera-Hellweg, Photographer, Writer, and Filmmaker, Cambridge, M.A.
Bergit Arends, Historian and Curator, Museum of Natural History, London
Andrew Carnie, Artist, Consultant, and Greater London Arts Professor at Winchester School of Art, Winchester, United Kingdom
Oron Catts, Artistic Director, SymbioticA: The Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Sydney
Catherine Chalmers, Artist, New York City
Helen Chandler, Former Scientific Manager, Arts and Genomics Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Carl Djerassi, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University, San Diego
Florian Dombois, Professor and Head, Institute for Transdisciplinarity, Bern University of the Arts, Bern, Switzerland
Troy Duster, Professor of Sociology, New York University, New York City
Sian Ede, Arts Director, UK Branch of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Applications, London
Sabine Flach, Lecturer, Center for Literary Studies, Berlin
Giovanni Frazzetto, Molecular Biologist, London School of Economics and Political Science, London
David Freedberg, Professor and Director, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, New York City
Karl Grimes, Professor, School of Communications, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Jens Hauser, Independent Curator and Writer, Paris
Marvin Heiferman, Professor, New York School of Visual Arts, New York City
Vladimir Mironov, Research Associate Professor and Director of Bioprinting Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
Orlan, Performance Artist, Paris
Nancy Princenthal, Senior Editor, Art in America, New York City
Ingeborg Reichle, Art Historian, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin
Miriam van Rijsingen, Professor of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Michael Sappol, Curator-Historian, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, M.D.
Brad Smith, Researcher in Biomedical Visualization and Associate Dean of the School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Andrew Solomon, Writer and Board Member, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, N.Y.
Susan Squier, Brill Professor of Women’s Studies and English, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Eugene Thacker, Assistant Professor, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Richard Twine, Principal Investigator, ESRC Center for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Catherine Wagner, Photographer, San Francisco
Catherine Waldby, International Research Fellow, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Peter Weibel, Chairman, Center for Art and Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Richard Wingate, Lecturer, Center for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College, London