EVENT: SymbioticA Friday Seminar

Australian artist Boo Chapple will discuss the 2009 Honours Class “BioArt: contemporary art & the life sciences” she recently ran at The Arts & Genomics Centre (TAGC), in Leiden, The Netherlands. The Class was an art and science crossover lab that encouraged students from various disciplines to foster interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between art, and life through hands-on laboratory protocols, and critical readings. During her time at TAGC, Boo also cooperated with Leiden University Prof. Dr Ron de Kloet in an ArtScience project on stress.

Boo Chapple is an artist and researcher whose conceptually driven practice has been enacted across a diverse range of media including sound (installation, performance, design), performance installation, video, and art/science projects. Boo was a SymbioticA resident in 2004 and 2006. The bone audio speakers she researched during her year long Australia Council SymbioticA residency will be exhibited in “Art in the Age of Nanotechnology” from the 24 September - 29 November 2009 at the John Curtin Gallery. In 2007-08 she undertook at 12 month residency at the Design Research Institute, RMIT.

She has received several sound commissions (ABC/The Listening Room, Performance Space) and exhibited work in national and international contexts, including Ars Electronica, the Beijing Biennale of Architecture, the San Francisco MoMA and Enter3, Prague. She has been an invited panellist at the Whitney Museum, an invited speaker for Eyebeam, NYC and presented work at numerous national and international art events and conferences. Her writing and art projects have been published in Leonardo Journal, Aminima, Art of the Biotech Era and Plastic Green.

For more information on Boo’s practice, visit: http://residualsoup.org

All welcome.