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Workshop Topic: The purpose of the A&D Life workshop is to create space and stimulate a network for dialogue about the relationships between art, design, and the life sciences. Workshop processes can be described as attempts to critically identify and evaluate existing forms, structures, and strategies of creative engagement that span the artistic and life science domains. In these early stages of the organization’s development, the focus of A&D Life is to 1) understand the diversified viewpoints and approaches that structure creative engagement with the life sciences, 2) identify historical and contemporary precedents for work in these areas, 3) employ these theoretical and historical connections as catalysts for creative practices, and 4) register creative work as research that documents the complex, shifting relationships of art practice at the interface of contemporary social and scientific endeavor.
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Meetings
[[2007]]
Summer 2007: Ongoing: planning and coordination for long-term funding and creative strategy for the intersection of life science, art, and information technology
Tuesday April 3rd: Presentation Gabriel Harp: Sui generis, dealing with the epistemological and creative connections between life science, Western religion, cognitive development, and creative display.
February 9th, 4-5:30 pm: Ace 4 Art GROCS Design Lab Blog Meet in Design Lab One at the Duderstadt Center to participate in a GROCS project design meeting. Ace 4 Art's GROCS project will be discussed and design strategies will be discussed.
The Ace 4 Art Project "We envision a GROCS project that will enable individuals with tetraplegia (upper limb paralysis due to a spinal cord injury) to engage in online art collaboration. In order to participate in a visual art workshop, individuals with tetraplegia will utilize adapted technology devices appropriate to their level of physical function. Online art collaborations are not currently accessible to individuals using these adapted technologies. The focus of our project is to design a fully accessible collage workshop, which will enable groups or individuals to showcase their finished projects online, in a gallery exhibition, or in a public mural. The collage workshop will provide a channel for conversation and cooperation that is equally inclusive of all participants, regardless of the physical challenges presented by upper limb paralysis."
February 2nd, 3pm-5pm: Matt Shilan, PAPER FOLDING
"[The format will be] a lecture & short workshop for those wanting to learn more structures. I will discuss my work, how I started, its application in the design world, the art world, and the science world."
learn more about Matt Shilan
late-2006
Ricardo Dominguez presents Tales of Mayan Technologies Friday, December 8th at 5 p.m.
lunch meeting with A&D Life and Art & Design Grad Students at 12 noon (met at grad studios).
Forum Hall 4th floor of Palmer Commons The University of Michigan 100 Washtenaw Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109
RICARDO DOMINGUEZ is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He was co-Director of The Thing (www.thing.net ) an ISP for artists and activists from 2000 to 2004, and a former member of Critical Art Ensemble. His performances have been presented in museums, galleries, theater festivals, hacker meetings, tactical media events and as direct actions on the streets and around the world. Ricardo recently appeared in Coco Fusco's new video art work *A/K/A* as a strange FBI agent and also collaborated with her on recent net.art work (turistafronterizo.net) for the International inSite_05 (insite05.org) Art Interventions Festival. Ricardo also recently collaborated with artist Diane Ludin on (ibiology.net) which was presented at ISEA 2004 and at the MadridMedia Lab. Another of his recent collaborations is (specflic.net) a speculative distributed cinema project with artist Adriene Jenik. He recently became an Assistant Professor at UCSD in the Visual Arts Department and is also a Principle Scientist at the new edge technology institute CAL IT(2) (www.calit2.net ) where he will be researching and developing a performance project on nanotechnology entitled *b.a.n.g lab*.
Presented by A&D Life, Latina/o Studies Program, The School of Information, and The School of Art & Design.
[[2006]]
February 2nd John Klausmeyer, UM Exhibit Museum preparator; talk/discussion at noon; meet at the exhibit museum.
Alison Byrnes, Anna Perricci, Greg Oberle, Forest Bright, John Klausmeyer, Sarah Osborne, Gabriel Harp
February 9th Gabriel Harp, manuscript discussion: Genomic Cinema.
Chris Landau, Zack Denfeld, Greg Oberle, Ed Johnston, Gabriel Harp
February 16th Sarah Osborne, new work
Zack Denfeld, Sarah Osborne, Gabriel Harp
February 19th-23rd Endless Forms Installation Various members of A&D Life assembled and installed the exhibition.
March 10th Endless Forms Opening Reception,
6:30-9:30, WORK, 306 S. State St. Exhibition opening reception for the public
March 24th; Chris Landau, The Flocking Party.
Presentation of a thesis project. Open to the public.
April 6th Vita-Brevis
Description of Vita-Brevis and recent conference attendance by Zack Denfeld
Zack Denfeld, Chris Landau, Gabriel Harp, Forest Bright, Tim Flood
April 21st
Digital Kami Opening at the Nichols Arboretum Open to the public.
[[2005]]
October 31, 2005 Boryana Rossa: Robotics, art, and biology
Zack Denfeld, Brent Fogt, Greg Oberle, Carrie Mather, Colleen Cox, Ning Juang, Chris Landau, Ed Johnston, Gabriel Harp, Rich Pell, Mark Neilsen, Elona VanGent
November 17, 2005 Joint meeting with the Complex Systems workshop. These groups met to discuss and share their creative practices as a channel for common areas of exploration.
Michael Aylward, Forest Bright, Chris Landau, Greg Sawicki, Zack Denfeld, Katie Koelle, Greg Oberle, Ed Johnston, Elona VanGent, Katherine Weider, Sarah Buckius, Gabriel Harp
November 21, 2005 Art & Design faculty member Brad Smith discussed his work in the context of evolutionary developmental biology.
Gabriel Harp, Greg Oberle, Sarah Osborne, Chris Landau, Forest Bright, Zack Denfeld, Melanie Manos, Rich Pell, Elona VanGent, Brad Smith
December 8, 2005 Meeting to organize the Endless Forms exhibition and review the outside submissions.
Elona VanGent, Rich Pell, Alison Byrnes, Zack Denfeld, Chris Landau, Greg Oberle, Gabriel Harp, Ed Johnston
Events
Ricardo Dominguez presents '''Tales of Mayan Technologies
Friday, December 8th at 5 p.m.
Forum Hall
4th floor of Palmer Commons
The University of Michigan
100 Washtenaw Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
RICARDO DOMINGUEZ is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He was co-Director of The Thing (www.thing.net ) an ISP for artists and activists from 2000 to 2004, and a former member of Critical Art Ensemble. His performances have been presented in museums, galleries, theater festivals, hacker meetings, tactical media events and as direct actions on the streets and around the world. Ricardo recently appeared in Coco Fusco's new video art work *A/K/A* as a strange FBI agent and also collaborated with her on recent net.art work (turistafronterizo.net) for the International inSite_05 (insite05.org) Art Interventions Festival. Ricardo also recently collaborated with artist Diane Ludin on (ibiology.net) which was presented at ISEA 2004 and at the MadridMedia Lab. Another of his recent collaborations is (specflic.net) a speculative distributed cinema project with artist Adriene Jenik. He recently became an Assistant Professor at UCSD in the Visual Arts Department and is also a Principle Scientist at the new edge technology institute CAL IT(2) (www.calit2.net ) where he will be researching and developing a performance project on nanotechnology entitled *b.a.n.g lab*.
Presented by A&D Life, Latina/o Studies Program, The School of Information, and The School of Art & Design.
Members
Gabriel Harp (Graduate Coordinator) semeiotica blog
Community evolution interests me- from interspecies and intersexual interactions to the ways in which contemporary art and scientific practices affect perception and life history evolution. Currently, this means looking at the interactions and practices of evolution biology, genomics, art & design, and identity design for the marketplace of culture and ideas. I am currently a MFA candidate ('07) in the University of Michigan School of Art & Design. Previously, my research led to a Bachelor's degree in Biology and a Master's in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior from Indiana University, Bloomington. MFA thesis project: Boundary Expeditions: Network Entrepreneurship at the Interfaces of Biology, Conceptual Art, & Design
Patricia Olynyk (Faculty Coordinator) Art & Design Faculty bio
At Michigan, Olynyk teaches print media, courses on public art and installation, and offers courses that examine the intersections of art and the life sciences. With research interests grounded in interdisciplinary practices that include printmaking, sculpture, large-scale public art and biomedical imaging technologies, her recent work explores the miniaturization and manipulation of the natural world. Olynyk’s interactive installations, exhibited recently at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C., investigate the tenuous relationships between human culture, science and the environment, as well as the intersection of visual representation, sound, and the written word.
Projects
Networks
Local Organizations
BLUElab: a student group interested in sustainable design for communities; affiliated with the college of engineering BLUElab
iGEM/Michigan Synthetic Biology Team: uses engineering principles in the application of molecular biology to build things website
Global Organizations
Resources
websites
blogs of note
discussions
conferences
Bibliographies
Listserve
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Funding
Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops
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