On Thursday, November 25th, 10:00am (classroom 11), as part of the course "THE906-Practice of Exhibition Design", we will have the pleasure to have Dr Adam Zaretsky with us on a guest lecture entitled “IT'S ALIVE! Understanding bio-art: art and biology exhibited”.
Dr. Adam Zaretsky is a bioartist and a Wet-Lab Art Practitioner mixing ecology, biotechnology, non-human relations, body performance and gastronomy. He is the founder and Director of the NADLinc Foundation in New York.
Dr Adam Zaretsky stages lively, hands-on bioart production labs based on topics such as: foreign species invasion(pure/impure), radical food science (edible/inedible), bioinformatics (code/flesh), tissue culture (undead/semi-alive), transgenic design issues (traits/desires), interactive ethology (person/machine/non-human) and physiology (performance/stress). He is a former researcher at the MIT department of biology.
Course Lecturer
Dr Sofia Paschou