[ARENA] Summer School in BIOART: Contemporary Art and Life Sciences

[DAVID ETXEBERRIA]

Summer School in BIOART: Contemporary Art and Life SciencesDATE

july 29 – august 02
DURATION

40h
MORE INFO

http://summerschool.esad.ipleiria.pt/course/bioart/
TARGET

Visual artists, fiction writers, art historians, political theorists,
geographers, scientists, musicians, researchers.  | 20 VACANCIES
OBJECTIVES

Bio art: Contemporary Art and Life Sciences is an innovative summer course
that will allow non-specialist to acquire theoretical and practical skills
in the biological sciences in its connection to the visual arts. This
course is therefore a crossover between the visual arts and biology for
students, researchers and others who want to explore the interdisciplinary
relationship in the intersections between art and life sciences through a
hands-on exercise: seminars, visits and the creation of artworks by
biological means are some of the topics that will be explored.
GUIDELINES

The Bioarte course results of a combination of theoretical seminars, which
will address issues such as the cultural representations of technoscience,
ethical issues and cultural of bioart. A practical component that will
focus in hands-on exercises, where it will highlighted the possibility of
transforming scientific ideas and abstract concepts into art objects, the
collection and selection of organisms for artistic purposes and, finally,
attended visits to the Biotechnology Laboratories of the Polytechnic
Institute of Leiria.
Across the course, it will be provided a vast cultural program.
LECTURER(S)
DAVID ETXEBERRIA

David Etxeberria is a visual artist (b. San Sebastian, 1977), with a degree
in Fine Arts from the School of Art and Design, a Master Degree in
Contemporary Culture and New Technologies at the New University of Lisbon
and is finishing his PhD. on the intersections between art and science in
the Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon. He has
explored in terms visual arts and academic research, the intersections
between culture and new technologies, including the ethical responsibility
of the bioartist. Exhibits individually since the late 90s and is
represented in collections nationally and internationally.
MARTA DE MENEZES

Marta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist (b. Lisbon, 1975) with a degree in
Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon, a MSt in History of Art and Visual
Culture by the University of Oxford, and a PhD candidate at the University
of Leiden. She has been exploring the intersection between Art and Biology,
working in research laboratories demonstrating that new biological
technologies can be used as new art medium. She is currently the artistic
director of Ectopia, an experimental art laboratory within a biological
research institute – the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência – in Lisbon, and
Director of Cultivamos Cultura in the South of Portugal.
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