18 August 2012 :: Faculty of Architecture, Design & Planning, University of Sydney
biome is a cluster of researchers, practitioners and artists investigating natural paradigms as a language shared in biology, mathematics, music, behavioural studies, engineering, interaction design and architecture. Digital derivations of biological systems, biomimetics, are increasingly informing research in a diverse range of disciplines. The biome Symposium engages in conversations that explore a mathematical language (code, script, parameter, algorithm) as a natural paradigm, and transfers of this language into and out of the diverse fields of biology, mathematics, music, behavioural studies, engineering, interaction design and architecture.
Register for this free event via Eventbrite – http://biome.eventbrite.com or go to the biome website http://biome.cc/symposium.html
Critical Animals
Critical Animals, a creative research symposium held as a part of This Is Not Art, is now calling for proposals to participate in the 2011 festival.
DEADLINE – APRIL 1, 2011
Critical Animals is a forum for students, researchers, writers, artists, thinkers and curious individuals who are critically engaged with creative and experimental art practices.
It’s an opportunity to present papers and ongoing research, as well as to challenge creative practices and work collaboratively with others in the field. Critical Animals aims to strengthen the links between practice and theory with a flexible definition of research that encompasses creative, experimental, interrogative and practice-lead approaches.
The symposium is particularly interested in promoting crossdisciplinary and collaborative approaches. In assessing your proposal they’ll be looking at how they can program you and your work to form interesting conjunctions with other artists and thinkers.
This year’s symposium will take place over three days, from Friday 30 September to Sunday 2 October, in Newcastle, NSW. Papers, panels, presentations. Critical Animals are keen to receive proposals from artists and researchers who are investigating or putting into practice specific areas of theory and philosophy. From explorations of form and methodology, to issues impacting on everyday life, they welcome research material and reflections on poetics, politics, aesthetics, practice-lead research, ecological art and ecopoetics, the social implications of art and the overlap between the arts and the sciences.
Experimental and non-traditional presentations are encouraged.
Submit proposals, questions, ideas and concerns to criticalanimals@gmail.com
www.criticalanimals.org
The Genealogies of Digital Light ARC Discovery Project [] presents Digital Light: Technique, Technology, Creation, a free symposium to be held at the University of Melbourne in March. This interdisciplinary symposium invites a number of leading international and Australian figures working with digital light-based technologies, including two artists previously commissioned by Experimenta, Lynette Wallworth and Van Sowerine.
Digital Light: 18 – 19 March 2011
SymbioticA Symposium :: Unruly Ecologies
26 – 28 November 2010 :: Perth & Mandurah, Australia
The ecology of biodiversity is based upon an uncertain definition, incomplete statistics and the need to act in a world without balance. While multiple flora and fauna databases have been established and are being coordinated, there is an urgent need to engage even more proactively with complex ecosystems and human responses. Artists, scientists, humanities scholars and conservationists will come together to talk of the matters of concern around the potentials and futures of biodiversity.
SymbioticA Symposium
The Body, Art and Bioethics is a symposium exploring the culture and ethics of the use and ownership of living material, from the cell to the whole body, in art, science, law and philosophy. Speakers include Dr Catherine Waldby (University of Sydney), Elizabeth Costello (writer), Dr Ethan Blue (UWA), Kathy High (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Dr Ionat Zurr (UWA), Dr Stuart Hodgetts (UWA), Oron Catts (Director SymbioticA).
Friday 6 August, 2010. $110 (including GST) registration. Students and unwaged free.
For more info email, sym@symbiotica.uwa.edu.au
Or visit, http://www.bodyartbioethics.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/#
