<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9px; "><b>hYbrid: /Reflections on Science and Art</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><b>PORTO. MNSR. 31 de Maio de 2008</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">hYbrid: /Reflections on Science and Art/ is focusing on </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">different <b>ethical perspectives</b> of Science and Art </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">collaborations, particularly in relation to the Life Sciences. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">31st of May </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis (MNSR), </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">Rua D. Manuel II, Porto </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">Porto-Portugal </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#333333" style="font: 9.0px Verdana; color: #333333"><b>hYbrid: Reflections on Science and Art </b>is the second meeting of a <br> series of Science and Art meetings we are planning to organise. Last <br> year’s meeting: <b>Culturas de Fronteira ou Intersecções de Arte e <br> Ciência</b>, promoted the creation of an international network aiming to <br> exchange experiences and know-how within these areas.<br> <br> In this year’s edition, we are focusing on different <b>ethical <br> perspectives</b> of Science and Art collaborations, particularly in <br> relation to the Life Sciences. We have thought of 3 distinct moments <br> of reflection to discuss the differences, similarities, cross <br> sections, juxtapositions in artists and scientists’ objectives, <br> sensibilities and background knowledge.<br> <br> 1) <b>Hybrids</b> will present some projects that deal with different <br> subjects, a portrait of life, and human, animal and cellular <br> interactions<br> <br> 2) <b>Reflections </b>will be centred on laboratory experiences<br> <br> 3) <b>Boundaries</b>, will focus on the impact of art and science <br> interactions on society<br> <br> Additionally, we are organising an exhibition to display works of some <br> of our guest speakers and other artists, aiming at reflecting the <br> central theme of this year meeting and bringing closer to the public <br> science and art creations.</font></p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><html><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">furher information at</span></font>: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; ">ww.ibmc.up.pt/hybrid/</span></html><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Participants: </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Beatrice Allegranti</b> (London, UK) is a Senior Registered Dance Movement </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Psychotherapist, Artistic Director of the Personal Text Public Body Lab </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">and Co-ordinator for the MA in Dance Movement Therapy at Roehampton </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">University, London. Her interdisciplinary experience over the past fifteen </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">years includes: performance and choreography for dance, theatre and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">film, training actors, dancers and therapists and clinical practice in adult </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">psychiatry within the UK National Health System. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.letsengage.co.uk/templates/page_03.php?cfp=page:BEA_0003">http://www.letsengage.co.uk/templates/page_03.php?cfp=page:BEA_0003</a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Oron Catts</b> (Perth, AUS) is an artist/researcher who uses living tissue </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">from complex organisms as his medium. He has exhibited and published </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">internationally and founded the Tissue Culture and Art Project in 1996 </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">and was Co-founder and is Artistic Director of SymbioticA: The Art & </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Science Collaborative Research Laboratory at The School of Anatomy & </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Human Biology, University of Western Australia. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au">http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au</a>/</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Siân Ede</b> (London, UK) is Arts Director for the UK Branch of the Gulbenkian </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Foundation where she led the first arts funded Arts and Science programme </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">to encourage artists and arts organisations from across the art forms to </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">engage with new thinking and practice in science and technology. She </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">also works with science institutions to develop arts programmes. She </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">regularly runs salons for artists and scientists and has commissioned and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">edited diary and poetry anthologies addressing art and science. She </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">frequently advises, writes, speaks and chairs debates on Art and Science </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">in Britain and internationally.</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>George Gessert</b> (Oregon, USA) was born in 1944 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">He received a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley, </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">and an MA in painting and serigraphy from the University of Wisconsin- </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Madison. Since 1985 his work has focused on the overlap of art and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">genetics. He has participated in many exhibitions and his writings have </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">appeared in numerous publications. Gessert has served as editor for art </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">and biology for Leonardo since 1996. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.viewingspace.com/genetics_culture/pages_genetics_cultur">http://www.viewingspace.com/genetics_culture/pages_genetics_cultur</a> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">e/gc_w02/gc_w02_gessert.htm</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Jens Hauser</b> (Paris, France) is a Paris based art curator, writer, cultural </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">journalist and video maker focusing on the interactions between art and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">technology, and on transgene and contextual aesthetics. He is currently </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">a lecturer at the Institute of Media Studies at Ruhr University </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Bochum/Germany, and has been a guest lecturer internationally in several </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">institutions. Hauser is also a director of creative radio pieces, sound </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">environments and documentary films, which have been shown in festivals </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">and as video installations in museums worldwide. In 1992, he has been </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">a founding collaborator of the European culture television channel ARTE </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">and regularly contributes to its programs.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Louis-Marie Houdebine</b> (Paris, France) has studied mechanisms of animal </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">and particularly milk protein gene expression for forty years in the French </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">National Institute of Research in Agronomy (INRA). He is expert in several </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">national biosafety committees for several years. He has also been expert </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">for particular evaluation I WHO, FAO, EFSA, Codex Alimnetarius and OECD. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">He has been participating for six years to a European Bioethics Course. He </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">also participates in biotechnology teaching at universities and high schools </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">in France. He also participates in public debates on GMOs and cloning </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">especially in France. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.biotethics.org/about/profiles/Louis-Marie_Houdebine.html">http://www.biotethics.org/about/profiles/Louis-Marie_Houdebine.html</a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Maria Lopes</b> (London, UK) is a visual artist and researcher based in Portugal </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">and the UK. Her current practice is transdisciplinar and based on issues of </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">memory and consciousness informed by life sciences and medical research </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">and presented in the form of time based installations. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">She has been working and showing nationally and internationally and also </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">teaching fine arts at ESAD CR in Portugal since 2000. She has studied fine </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">arts at the FBAUP in Porto, Portugal and did an MA at Goldsmiths College </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">in London. She is presently doing a practice based research degree at UCCA </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Farnham, UK. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.dgartes.pt/arteciencia/Manuela%20Lopes.htm">http://www.dgartes.pt/arteciencia/Manuela%20Lopes.htm</a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Riccardo Manzotti</b> (Milan, IT) is currently Assistant Professor of Psychology </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">at the IULM University in Milan. He teaches Psychology of Art and Psychology </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">of Media. His main interest is the conscious mind and the relation between </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">the subject and the object from Psychology to Aesthetic Experience. He </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">published several books and papers on the issue of conscious experience. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Recently he is focusing his research on the phenomenal aspects of artistic </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">experience and their connection with the seminal field of neuroaesthetics. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.consciousness.it/Manzotti/Index.htm">http://www.consciousness.it/Manzotti/Index.htm</a> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.consciousness.it/Psychology%20of%20Art/PsArtIndex.htm">http://www.consciousness.it/Psychology%20of%20Art/PsArtIndex.htm</a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Marta de Menezes</b> (Lisbon, PT) is a Portuguese artist, born in Lisbon in </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">1975, with a degree in Fine Arts (University of Lisbon) and a MSt in History </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">of Art and Visual Culture (University of Oxford). In recent years, she has </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">been exploring the interaction between Art and Biology, working in research </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">laboratories demonstrating that new biological Technologies can be used </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">as new art medium, and proving that laboratories can be art studios. Besides </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">researching into new ways to create art, Marta de Menezes is also an </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">accomplished artist using traditional media, with paintings frequently </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">representing insights from scientific research. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.martademenezes.com">http://www.martademenezes.com</a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Mário Montenegro</b> (Coimbra, PT) funded the theatre company MARIONET </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">in 2000, in Coimbra. Mário is its artistic Director, artist, screenwriter, scenic </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">designer, and producer. Since 2001 he has been interested in performing </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">arts and science cross-sections therefore he has written and produced with </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">MARIONET several science in theatre pieces, Revolução dos Corpos Celestes </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">(2001), O Nariz (2003), Os Lusíadas no Zoológico (2005), LED – viagem </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">ao interior de um computador (2006) and Bengala dos Cegos – o </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">descobrimento de Pedro Nunes (2006). In 2007 he has obtained an MA on </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Science in Theatre. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://marioneteatro.com">http://marioneteatro.com</a>/ </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://led-marionet.blogspot.com">http://led-marionet.blogspot.com</a>/</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Juan Luis Moraza</b> (Madrid, Espana) was a founding member of CVA (1979- </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">1985) and has participated in many exhibitions since 1980. He has </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">commissioned several exhibitions such as Incógnitas. Cartografías del Arte </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">contemporáneo en el País Vasco (Museo Guggenheim-Bilbao, 2007), Tejidos </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">-óseos, arquitectónicos, pictóricos- (La Casa Encendida, Madrid 2006; Museo </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">de Teruel, 2005), etc. He holds a PhD in Fine Arts at Universidad del País </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Vasco where he was a lecturer for seven years. He currently is Professor of </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">the Departamento de Escultura at Universidad de Vigo.</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Kira O’Reilly</b> (London, UK) is a UK based artist and she has been making </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">for ten years now. Her practice whilst wilfully interdisciplinary and entirely </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">undisciplined stems from a fine art background; it employs performance, </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">biotechnical practices and writing with which to consider the body as material </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">and site. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the UK and Europe, Australia </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">and China and featured in the recently published in Sk-interfaces: Exploding </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Borders – Creating Membranes in Art, Technology and Society, Edited by </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Jens Hauser, Liverpool University Press, 2008. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.kiraoreilly.com/blog">http://www.kiraoreilly.com/blog</a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Alexandre Quintanilha</b> (Porto, PT) graduated in theoretical physics at the </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) University. He devoted to biology in Berkeley </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">where he was director of the Environmental Study Centre until 1991 and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">director of the Biosphere Technology Study Centre from 1987 to 1990. He </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">went back to Portugal in 1990 and became director of the Experimental </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Cytology Study Centre and Professor at the Biomedical Science Abel Salazar </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Institute (ICBAS). In 1994 he was elected member of the European Academy. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">He is currently Professor at ICBAS, director of Molecular and Cell Biology </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Institute, and President of Board of Directors of Instituto de Engenharia </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Biomédica. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.ibmc.up.pt">http://www.ibmc.up.pt</a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Kathleen Rogers</b> (London, UK) is an artist, researcher and lecturer. Her </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">work explores the boundaries between art, science and technology. She has </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">been working with new media technologies and scientific related processes </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">since 1990 and her work has been presented at key international exhibitions, </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">festivals and conferences in Europe and the USA. Her writing has been </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">published internationally in numerous books and journals on art and technology. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Since 2000 her art practise has engaged with the scientific disciplines of cell </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">and molecular biology. She has collaborated with scientists and anthropologists </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">to conduct primary research on the themes of consciousness, ecology, biology </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">and genetics. Her current art practise engages with the cultural themes of </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">genomics. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.kathleenrogers.co.uk/2006/09/about_the_artist_1.htm">http://www.kathleenrogers.co.uk/2006/09/about_the_artist_1.htm</a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Jill Scott</b> (Zurich, CH) currently is Professor for Research in the Institute </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Cultural Studies in Art, Media and Design at the Zurich University of the Arts </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">(ZHDK) in Zürich and Co-Director of the Artists-in-Labs Program (a collaboration </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">with the Ministry for Culture, Switzerland) which places artists from all </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">disciplines into physics, computer, engineering and life science labs to learn </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">about scientific research and make creative interpretations. She is also Vice </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Director of the Z-Node PhD program on art and science at the University of </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Plymouth, UK. She has exhibited many video artworks, conceptual performances </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">and interactive environments in USA, Japan, Australia and Europe. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.jillscott.org">http://www.jillscott.org</a> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.artistsinlabs.ch">http://www.artistsinlabs.ch</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Soraya Vasconcelos</b> (Lisbon, PT) has a degree in Fine Arts (University of </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Lisbon, 2002) and finished a comercial photography course at Etic in the </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">same year. She holds a diploma in digital imaging from Universidade </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Autónoma de Barcelona (2003-2004), and participates in a photography </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">course run by Programa Gulbenkian Criatividade e Criação Artística (2005). </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">She exhibits solo and collectively since 2000. She obtained a scholarship </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">from DGArtes and Ciência Viva for an Arts in Residence scheme: Programa </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Rede de Residências: Arte, Ciência e Tecnologia, between October and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">December, 2007. She works and lives in Lisbon. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.artadentro.com/soraya_vasconcelos.htm">http://www.artadentro.com/soraya_vasconcelos.htm</a> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.sv-biop.blogspot.com">http://www.sv-biop.blogspot.com</a>/</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Jennifer Willet</b> (Montreal, Canada) is an internationally successful artist, </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">specializing in performance, installation, and reproductive </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">(analogue/digital/biological) technologies. Willet's work explores notions of </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">representation, authority, and subjectivity in relation to biological and digital </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">technologies with an emphasis on social and political criticism. She is PhD </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">candidate in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia University </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">in Montreal. From 2000-2007, Willet and Shawn Bailey collaborated on an </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">innovative computational, biological, artistic, project called BIOTEKNICA. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.bioteknica.org">http://www.bioteknica.org</a>/ </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://jenniferwillet.com/bio.html">http://jenniferwillet.com/bio.html</a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Ionat Zurr</b> (Perth, Australia) was born in England, currently living and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">working in Western Australia. Wet Biology Art Practitioner. Artist in </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">residence/PhD candidate in SymbioticA. Co-Founder of the TC&A Project. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Research Fellow at the Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication Laboratory, </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Harvard Medical School (2000-2001). Studied art history, photography and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">media studies. Specialising in biological and digital imaging as well as video </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">production. Currently a PhD candidate researching the ethical and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">epistemological implications of wet biology art practices. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/index.html">http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/index.html</a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><b>Robert Zwijnenberg</b> (Leiden, NL) is Professor of art history in relation to </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">the development of science and technology at Universiteit Leiden and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">Universiteit Maastricht. He has published on Renaissance culture and art </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">theory, philosophy of art, and on the relation between the arts and sciences. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">He is one of the founding members of The Arts and Genomics Centre </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">(Amsterdam) that aims at stimulating, initiating and supervising meetings, </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">discussions, collaborations, and exchanges between international artists, </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">genomic researchers and professionals from business and governmental </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana">organisations. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 8.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.artsgenomics.org">http://www.artsgenomics.org</a></font></div>
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