Experimenta Life Forms: Arts Forum - Oron Catts

Watch award winning artist, researcher, curator and Experimenta Life Forms artist, Oron Catts, in a special arts forum lecture. In his talk, ‘Biological art and its discontents’, Oron Catts traces the cultural and scientific developments that led to the emergence of biological art as a new form of art practice. From Alexis Carrel, Stéphane Leduc and Edward Steichen to contemporary lab craft and art, this talk provides a critical look at the development of biological art. About the Speaker | Oron Catts Oron Catts is an artist, designer, researcher and curator whose pioneering work with the Tissue Culture & Art Project is considered a leading biological art project. In 2000 he co-founded SymbioticA, which has gone on to win the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in Hybrid Art (2007), the WA Premier Science Award (2008) and became a Centre for Excellence in 2008. Catts’ work has been exhibited at MoMA, New York; The Centre Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, among others. Catts was a Research Fellow in Harvard Medical School, a visiting Scholar at the Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University, and a Professor at Large in Contestable Design at the Royal College of Arts, London. In 2012-2013 he set up a biological art lab called Biofilia – Base for Biological Art and Design, at the School of Art, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, where he was a Visiting Professor. https://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/ Experimenta Life Forms: International Triennial of Media Art, presenting at Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, 19 March – 9 May 2021. The exhibition tours nationally until 2023. Check the website for further details. http://www.experimenta.org/lifeforms Recorded Presentation: 19 March 2021, in Hobart on nipaluna country. Presented by Experimenta & Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania.