SFU’s School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) just published an article about Art/In Forum’s Knowledge Partner, Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter and her project, BioArt in Canada. We’re highlighting this quote with double asterisks!
“[The] potential evolution of art into new spaces (undersea or in deep space), or as new media (living art or genetic design), suggest that arts may be the new strategic literacy.”
Later this summer, we’ll be hosting a virtual meet and greet with Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter and PhD student Ludmila Lima de Morais. Come hear them talk more about new art forms, their findings on BioArt in Canada, the role of museums today, and what WhiteFeather has called, the potential opportunities for the “integration of art production, critique and consumption into daily life.“
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Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter is an internationally recognized Canadian artist and researcher. WhiteFeather holds a PhD in Biological Art through SymbioticA, The University of Western Australia, and an MFA in Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia University. Her doctoral thesis, “The Witch in the Lab Coat” was a TechnoFeminist negotiation of science biocultures by using ‘taboo’ materials such as menstrual fluid in tissue engineering protocols and producing DIY lab hardware; this included witchcraft as performed resistance to medicalized control over women’s bodies. Dr. Hunter’s recent projects include Sentient Clit—The Pussification of Biotech, an exploration of 3D-bioprinting clitorises embedded with her menstrual stem cells differentiated to neuronal types, in order to produce a synthetic organ that responds to stimuli. The project was awarded an Ars Electronica 2024 S+T+ARTS Prize jury nomination.
Ludmila Lima de Morais is a Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) in Vancouver, Canada. She holds an MFA in Intermedia from the University of Alberta, a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Universidade de Brasília, and a Licentiate Teaching Degree in Visual Arts from Claretiano University in Brazil. Her research and artistic practice explore immersive environments, interactive art, memory, dreams, migration, and the relationship between humans, nature, and technology. Working across virtual reality, 3D animation, robotics, sound, and installation, Ludmila creates works that investigate how digital and material environments can shape embodied experience.
Read more on the SFU blog.
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