As part of the School of Visual Arts Alone + Together Lecture Series at The University of Windsor we present:

Lorena Salomé

Biography: Lorena Salomé was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2003, she moved to Toronto, where she finished her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at OCAD-Ontario College of Art and Design. Her work has been presented in Canada, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Germany and the United States. She makes use of different technologies-video, electronics and mechanics-for her artwork.

www.lorenasalome.com

This event is sponsored by INCUBATOR laboratory, The school of Visual Arts at The University of Windsor.

The School of Visual Arts at the University of Windsor Presents

the  2010 / 2011 Visiting Artist Lecture Series:

Kate Hartman is an artist, technologist, and educator whose work spans the fields of physical computing, wearable electronics, and conceptual art. She is the co-creator of Botanicalls, a system that lets thirsty plants place phone calls for human help, and the Lilypad XBee, a sewable radio transceiver that enables your clothing to communicate. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured by the New York Times, BBC, CBC, and NPR. Hartman recently moved to Toronto to join the Digital Futures Initiative at OCAD University where she is the Assistant Professor of Wearable & Mobile Technology and the director of the Social Body Lab.

www.katehartman.com

BioARTCAMP is a two-week residency program at The Banff Centre directed by Dr. Jennifer Willet from The University of Windsor, Canada. BioARTCAMP is a hybrid workshop / conference / performance event where 20 national and international artists, scientists, filmmakers, and university students will work for two weeks to build a portable biology laboratory in Banff National Park.  BioARTCAMP will serve as a “field research station” housing a functional biological sciences lab and a variety of art/science projects.

The BioARTCAMP Video was co-produced by G-Netwerk & INCUBATOR

(Jeanette Groenendaal, Zoot Derks and Jennifer Willet) and serves an evocative artwork itself, while providing a glimpse of the BioARTCAMP experience to a larger general audience.

Credits:

Direction, Interviews, Camera, Edit: Jeanette Groenendaal and Zoot Derks

Music: Angus Leech and Dylan Leech

Audio Post Production: Warning Studio’s

BioARTCAMP Project Designer and Director:  Jennifer Willet

Project Manager: Tokio Webster

Participants:

Iain Baxter&, Angus Leech, Tagny Duff, Paul Vanouse, Marta De Menezes, Marie Pier Boucher, Kurt Illerbrun, Bulent Mutus, Jeanette Groenendaal, Zoot Derks, Jennifer Willet, Jamie Ferguson, Britt Wray, Kacie Auffret, David Dowhaniuk

A special thank you to:

Grant Yocom, Louise Baxter&, Joan Linder, Dylan Leech, Jean Macpherson, Karin Stubenvoll, Cindy Schatkoski, Mark Resch, Cassandra Piroutz, Susan Kennard, Jamie Fennell, Lori Rissling-Wynn, Ann Morrow, Amanda White, Jodi Vanderbeke, Moira Robertson, Nasseme Albonaimi, Otto Ritosa, Billie McLaughlin, Victor Romao, Josh Babcock, Meghan Krauss, Jennifer Barone, Gam Macasaet, Stephen Fields, Sherri Lynne Menard, Leigh Harold, Wissam Aoun, Rachel Manno, Anthony Brook, Nick Caulford, Tony Chatham, Robert Zwijnenberg, Judy Buchanan-Mappin, Praveen K. Saxena, Melentie Pandilovski.

We are grateful for support from the following partners:

The Banff Centre, The University of Windsor, SSHRC the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The Ontario Arts Council, Hostelling International , Parks Canada, Banff National Park, Glenbow Museum, The Art and Genomics Centre, at The University of Leiden, Fonds BKVB.

Occupy Science
Kira O’Reilly and Jennifer Willet
Noxious Sector Projects
Jan 05 – 30 2012

http://www.noxioussector.net/nsp/201201/

In 2008 artists Jennifer Willet (CAN) and Kira O’Reilly (UK) climbed into a sterile hood in a closed research laboratory at The University of Leiden and performed a set of tissue culture protocols feeding (CHOE) Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells. This photographic exhibition includes the results of that performative action.  This work was supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, and The Art and Genomics Centre at The University of Leiden in The Netherlands.  Photographer: Rune Peitersen.

Dr. Jennifer Willet will travel to Turkey present her BioARTCAMP project to The International Society for Electronic Arts.  On a panel co-chaired with Marie Pier Boucher (Duke University) Willet, Paul Vanouse (UBuffalo) and Tagny Duff (Concordia University) will report their experiences while camping and building a portable bioART Laboratory in Banff National Park in July 2011.

BioARTCAMP was directed by Willet as a co-production between INCUBATOR lab and The Banff Centre, and sponsored by The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The Ontario Arts Council, University of Windsor, Hosteling International, the Glenbow Museum, and The Art and Genomics Centre, at The University of Leiden, and Fonds BKVB.

http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/panel/bioartcamp-laboratory-ecologies-wild-west

Dr. Jennifer Willet from the School of visual Arts will present INCUBATOR: Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Ecology at the Subtle Technologies symposium in Toronto June 03-05 2011.  Her presentation will highlight her work on building a bioart laboratory at The University of Windsor, and her new undergraduate course: BioART Contemporary Art and the Life Sciences.

http://www.subtletechnologies.com/festival/schedule/presentation?p_id=2

Senior participating artists and scientists have already been selected to join this project; however applications for student participants in BioARTCAMP are being accepted until May 10, 2011.

Four Canadian post-secondary students (or recent graduates) with interest and/or experience in bioart will be selected to participate as apprentices in BioARTCAMP. These students will contribute to the smooth running of BioARTCAMP, assist senior artists with their research, and receive feedback on their own work from senior participants.

Individuals who wish to apply may do so through The Banff Centre website.

Links:

http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1151

http://bioartcamp.blogspot.com/

For More information, please contact Jean_Macpherson@banffcentre.ca

BioARTCAMP will host an artist speakers series where visiting artists and scientists will present their research to a general audience.  Additionally, panel discussions will serve as an opportunity for participants to reflect on the BioARTCAMP experience. The schedule of speakers and events appears below.

9:30 am Coffee, Tea, and Danish (bottled water all day)

10:00 am Opening Remarks

10:10 am – 10:40 am     Jennifer Willet   (20 min, plus questions)

BioARTCAMP: A Rocky Mountain Adventure in Art and Biology

10:40 am – 11:00 am     Tagny Duff   (15 min, plus questions)

11:00 am – 11:20 am     Angus Leech   (15 min, plus questions)

“Why: Songs of Love, Murder and Biotechnology”

11:20 am – 11:40 am     Dr. Bulent Mutus   (15 min, plus questions)

Simple Methods for Detecting and Quantifying Sour Gas (Hydrogen Sulfide) in the Environment

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm   LUNCH

1:40 pm – 2:40 pm     Colleen Sharpe, Derek Besant   (20 min, plus questions)

2:00 pm – 2:20 pm     Paul Vanouse   (15 min, plus questions)

2:20 pm – 2:40 pm     Marie Pier Boucher   (15 min, plus questions)

3:00 pm     Depart For Banff Park Museum

3:40 pm – 4:00 pm     Banff Park Museum Talk

6:00 pm     Banff Dinner

9:30 am     Coffee, Tea, and Danish (bottled water all day)

10:00 am – 10:20 am     IAIN BAXTER&   (15 min, plus questions)

10:20 am – 10:40 am     Marta De Menezes   (15 min, plus questions)

Nature and other Adventures

10:40 am – 11:00 am     Kurt Illerbrun   (15 min, plus questions)

11:00 am – 11:30 am     Panel Discussion   (20 min, plus questions)

Tokio Webster, Britt Wray, Kacie Auffret, Jamie Fergus, David Dowhaniuk

11:30 am – 1:00 pm     LUNCH

1:20 pm – 1:40 pm     Adam Zaretsky   (15 min, plus questions)

1:40 pm – 2:00 pm     Melentie Pandilovski   (15 min, plus questions)

2:00 pm – 2:35 pm     Jeanette Groenendaal + Zoot Derks   (10 min video, 15 min talk, plus questions)

OPEN SOURCE

Links:

http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1151

http://bioartcamp.blogspot.com/