Technoscience Salon
Thursday March 27, 2014
7:30-10:00 pm
Villain’s Beastro
Windsor, Ontario
Michelle Murphy, History and Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto
Natasha Myers, Anthropology, York University
Jackie Orr, Department of Sociology, Syracuse University, USA
Jennifer Willet, School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor
Discussant: Dehlia Hannah; Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
INCUBATOR Lab welcomes the Toronto Technoscience Salon to Windsor for a round table discussion, and a one-day workshop on bioart in post-industrial ecologies. Drawing participants from multiple universities as well as artistic and technical communities, the Toronto Technoscience Salon prompts playful and experimental engagements with the politics and practices of technoscience.
Life is not what it used to be. While cells, metabolisms, and genomes are made increasingly manipulable through scientific techniques, at the same time planetary changes to climate, water, and ecologies are dramatically altering the conditions for life. Speakers at this Salon share stories about the politics and practices of altering life forms and raise questions about the possibilities of re-imagining life in a post-industrial ecology.
A special thanks to our partners and sponsors: School for Arts and Creative Innovation, GLIER Great Lakes Research Institute, INTERMINUS Research Group, University of Windsor, Toronto Technoscience Research Unit, University of Toronto; Institute of Science and Technology Studies, York University; and SSHRC the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Alter Life: Biology in the Post-Industrial age workshop
Friday March 28, 2013
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Aaron Fisk; Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor
Rod Strickland; School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor
Jennifer Willet; School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor
