What happens when we design food systems without nature?
Wired Japan on the exhibition "PROJECT MRT-Natureless Solution/Rethinking Technology Separated from Sun, Soil, and Dung" by IAS Director @oroncatts.bsky.social &
@ionat.bsky.social Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media wired.jp/article/ycam...
UWA IAS 25th anniversary event - The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge airs nationally across Australia next week on ABC Radio National's Big Ideas.
8pm Wednesday 26 November, repeated midday Thursday 27 November
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Come to Yamaguchi on the the 17th to 19th of October. It will be interesting
www.ycam.jp/en/events/20...
viad.co.za/bioart-desig...
If you are in Johannesburg (or online anywhere) on Tuesday the 26th, it may be of interest…I will be giving an inaugural Visiting Professor lecutre, titiled “Life is Not What it Used to Mean”, follow link to rsvp
Join us for a public lecture by Luis Campos, Baker College Chair for the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Rice University, as he reflects on the 50th anniversary of the Asilomar DNA conference and its relevance to the future of biotechnology.
19 June | 6pm | UWA
tinyurl.com/35ymb6r2
PUBLIC TALK
Testimony to the Atom Bomb – A Survivor Speaks
In 1945 Teruko Yahata was 8 when she was exposed to an atomic bomb at her home in #Hiroshima.
She has since devoted herself to sharing her experience, to aid understanding #NeverAgain
12 May, 4–5pm | Fox Lecture Hall
tinyurl.com/3ps8tkv8
ARTIST TALK
Join Fiona Foley at the UWA School of Design for a special artist talk next week.
Fiona is a Badtjala woman who works at the intersections of law, history, Indigenous Knowledges and creative research.
When: 9 April, 12noon-1pm
Where: UWA ALVA Lecture Room G22
IAS MASTERCLASS
Join us on Monday 7th April for a Masterclass with writer and poet Sara M. Saleh
10am -12.30pm
🖋️REGISTER tinyurl.com/43w66vce
Sara Saleh is an award-winning writer, poet & human rights lawyer. Her poems, short stories & essays have been widely published in English and Arabic
www.pomconference.org/pom-perth-20...
Few more days extended - new Deadline 3rd April 2025 (AWST midnight) - also online presentations are possible under certain conditions
Artists Oron Catts (@oroncatts.bsky.social) and Dr. Ionat Zurr have been working with biological tissue as their art medium for the last 30 years—their projects ask "how will new knowledge about life change the concept of life itself?"
Watch the full video: youtu.be/RtpJ_jZSmOM?...
www.pomconference.org/pom-perth-20...
Fantastic conference in July! Submit a short abstract - extended deadline until 29th March.
Hope to see you in Perth with @oroncatts.bsky.social and get updates on Symbiotica, see Alvin Lucier (or part of him) performing, discuss bio-computers,....
The 5th Politics of the Machines Conference : Synthetic Sentience
Call for Abstract
Extended Deadline 29th March 2025
The POM-conference will explore the evolving politics of sentience across a wide array of fields.
www.pomconference.org/pom-perth-20...
Just putting it here, if you’re interested:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Two films dealing with our 3SDC projects are finalist at the 2024 WA Screen Culture Awards:
3SDC to the Power of 4 Screens -
Alternative Content
Sunlight: YES- Feature Documentary / Non Fiction
wascreencultureawards.com.au/2024-nominees/
