TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp (BFBC) Panel of Participants focuses on hacking research methods with a specific emphasis on wetlab Bioart as “ethics in action”. Creative, hands-on In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) includes audiovisual art mash-ups, novel apparatus prototyping and bio-feral experiments in performance art and some heady workshops. But where does ferality and rewilding feed into understanding ovum and sperm stimulation and collection, fertilisation through artificial microinjection insemination, germline gene editing, cryogenic suspended animation archive banking and mutant embryo implantation studies?
The TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp “Do it With Others” in vitro
fertilisation camps (TTTlabs BFBC IVF):
1. New Repro-Rebirthing Retreat - Gestalt Bioart/Bodyart on the
Beach (TTTlabs BFBC IVF NR-RR GB/BB)
2. New Repro-Zombie Studies - Undead Bioart/Bodyart on the
Beach (TTTlabs BFBC IVF NR-ZS UB/BB)
3. New Repro-FlaOctomingopus - Non-Human Bioart/Bodyart on the Beach (TTTlabs BFBC IVF NR-FO N-HB/BB)
Adam Zaretsky, Ph.D., is a former researcher at MIT's Department of Biology and an experimental bioartist with over a decade of teaching experience. His art practice critically explores the legal, ethical, social, and libidinal implications of biotechnological materials and methods, with a particular focus on transgenic humans. Known for his engaging, hands-on bioart labs, Zaretsky creates dynamic spaces for bioart production.
He has led the VivoArts experimental bioart class at institutions including San Francisco State University (SFSU), SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia (UWA), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), The Arts and Genomic Centre (TAGC) at Leiden University, and the Waag Society. He is the Head of Research at Nadlinc (since 2016) and a Research Consultant at BEAK (since 2022) in New York. Since 2024, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts at the Ionian University, where he also serves as the Creative Director of TTTlabs and TTTfellows in the "Rewilding Cultures" project (2022-2026), part of the Feral Lab Network, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
More:
Transgenic Humans as Bioart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgRkqh2DFLY
On the Role of Artists in the Human Germline: https://vimeo.com/73838256
Superplants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LrJ2UBxM6E
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