SymbioticA Biotech Workshop

November 16 to 20, 2009.

Workshop Participants

Daily posts with photos, written by research participant, Girish Sagaram, about activities and discussions during the week can be read here:
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5

SYMBIOTICA ART/DESIGN WORKSHOP @ RMIT:

SymbioticA BioTech Art and Design Workshop
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
16-20 November 2009

Workshop Leaders:
Oron Catts, SymbioticA Director, UWA
Greg Cozens, SymbioticA Chief Scientific Collaborator, UWA

Learn how to engineer life, from the molecular to the tissue level during an intensive 5-day Art and Design Workshop

SymbioticA’s BioTech Art and Design Workshop is an introduction to biological techniques and issues surrounding the manipulation of living systems. Artists, designers and researchers from various disciplines engage in the biological science lab to utilise language and techniques into their practice and research.

The workshop is a practical and theoretical introduction to the basics of biological techniques and the creation of biological art and design. Through applied ‘hands-on’ methods, the broader philosophical and ethical implications of human intervention with other living things will be explored.

Workshop Presented by:
SymbioticA, University of Western Australia
RMIT School of Architecture and Design

Workshop Hosted @:
RMIT School of Applied Sciences (BioSciences)

A symposium/forum event was held on Friday 20th, 2-5pm. You can read about that here.