Courses
Upon the successful completion of the course the students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of diverse perspectives by actively engaging in commentary and discussions within the course context.
2. Express personal exploration and creativity through innovative bioresearch projects that showcase individual experiences and perspectives.
3. Develop and execute experimental food preparations, interspecies performances, or other unconventional projects as valid means of exploration and expression within the field.
4. Analyse and evaluate the intricate relationship between safety, aesthetics, and responsibility inherent in the field of study through hands-on experiences.
5. Collect and present weekly articles or images relevant to the subject matter for group discussion, sourcing information from diverse mediums including online sources, popular press, scientific journals, and trade magazines.
6. Explore the concept of living art as a medium and message, critically examining its complexities and nuances through multifaceted research and project work.
7. Utilise research time to challenge and decode personal cultural preconceptions, fostering a deeper understanding of how these perceptions influence creative processes within the field.
8. Develop detailed and creative research paths that infuse artistic and written projects with curiosity and exploration, ensuring a rich and innovative approach to project development.
With a focus on art-based research, arts-based educational research and art-based autoethnography, this module addresses the similarities and differences between art-based research methods and scientific research. Aim of this module is to promote alternative forms of research methods that include pluralistic and transgressive modes of inquiry, expression, representation and discourse.
The course includes the following topics:
1. Intro to Bioart and Biosafety Training
2. Art/Sci Research Methods and Experimental Design
3. Food Science: Gastronomic Arts, Radical Food Preparation Lab and Cooking Show
4. BioInformatics and Bioinfo Databody and Literary Studies Lab
5. Wet Lab, Dry Lab and Physiology Tech Bioinformatics Lab Visit
6. Bio-Art - Wet Biology Crossover Lab - Transgenic Hereditary Biology Arts - Embryology: Mutagenicv Developmental Biology Art, Molecular Biology Art - Transgenics and Methods of Transgenesis, Disembodied Life - Tissue Culture Arts
7. The Body in Performance, Developmental Biology and Tissue Culture lab continued with Performance Art
8. Hybrid - bioinfo bioart body group dinner
9. Ecology: Ecoart Field trip, introduction to creative field work
10. Ethology: Art for All Phyla - Non-Human Relation Explorations Aquarium Lab
11. Public DIYBIO Lab
12. Issues in Human Germline Editing and Transgenic Sculpting, presented during a Hospital Visit 13. Hybrid Bio-Art Final Presentations/Iterations
- Suggested bibliography:
Latour, B., & Woolgar, S. (1986). Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Rogers, H. S., Halpern, M. K., Hannah, D., & de Ridder-Vignone, K. (Eds.). (2021). The Routledge
Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Scott, J. (Ed.). (2006). Artists-in-labs: Processes of Inquiry. Vienna: Springer-Verlag.
Scott, J. (Ed.). (2010). Artists-in-labs: Networking in the Margins. Vienna: Springer-Verlag.
Scott, J., & Hediger, I. (Eds.). (2016). Recomposing Art and Science: Artists-in-labs. Berlin, Germany & Boston, MA: Walter de Gruyter.
Wershler, Darren, et al. The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies. U of Minnesota Press, 2022.
- Related academic journals:
Nature
Fungal Biol Biotechnol.
Palgrave Commun.
JAR.
Leonardo
Distance learning
Use of ICT in teaching, laboratory education, communication with students.
Sketch Pad/Lab Book: research notes, drawings, experimental designs, lexicon 10%
Living Sketches 30%
Art project: 20%
Hybrid Media Project: 30 %
In-class participation and discussions: 10 %
