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PUBLIC TALK: Amplifying Ambiguity, Contesting Futures

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Today's date is Thursday, March 28, 2024
Amplifying Ambiguity, Contesting Futures : Public talk with SymbioticA resident Art historian Nora Vaage Other events...
In our contemporary Knowledge society, ideas for and about science are often shaped by the visions, scenarios and predictions offered by more or less clear-sighted actors within different societal spheres.

Entering into the contested terrain of which futures to prepare for, some of these visions are more ambiguous than others. This talk will discuss some of the artworks coming out of the SymbioticA Centre in relation to two other speculative projections of possible futures: The movement of Transhumanism, and the synthetic biology undergraduate competition iGEM.

Nora S. Vaage is an interdisciplinary researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is working on her PhD dissertation on artistic research and the ethics of bio art, of which the SymbioticA Centre is the main case study. Her Master?s thesis in Art History discussed the transgenic artworks of Eduardo Kac, and she also holds a Bachelor?s in Aesthetics. Nora is a member of the research group Cnature, the Cultural History of Nature. She is a lecturer in Art Theory and the ethics of images, and a seminar teacher in Visual Culture and Visual Rhetoric at the University of Bergen.
Speaker(s) Nora S. Vaage
Location SymbioticA, Room 228 Anatomy Physiology and Human Biology
Contact Chris Cobilis <[email protected]> : 6488 5583
URL http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/seminars
Start Fri, 03 May 2013 15:00
End Fri, 03 May 2013 16:00
Submitted by Chris Cobilis <[email protected]>
Last Updated Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:15
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