Biotechnologies announce the emergence of major breakthroughs and fresh insights into various fields of knowledge in the near future: new medical treatments, improvements in agriculture, the mapping of the genomes of various species, the customized reconfiguration of bodies. Such potent promises are both fascinating and disquieting, raising many uncertainties and posing questions difficult to resolve.
During this colloquium, international theorists and artists will explore these issues by presenting research and artworks situated at the intersection of art, science and artificial systems.
5 - 8 October 2004
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Québec, Canada
Organisers: Louise Poissant, Ernestine Daubner & Christine Bernier
Speakers: Suzanne Anker, Roy Ascott, Louis Bec, Bioteknica (Shawn Bailey et Jennifer Willet), Éric Bonabeau, Annick Bureaud, Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr (The Tissue Culture and Art Project), Critical Art Ensemble (Steve Kurtz), Joe Davis, Jean Décarie, Sara Diamond, Diana Domingues, Ollivers Dyens, Hervé Fischer, George Gessert, Jens Hauser, Eduardo Kac, Ted Krueger, Michaël La Chance, Ellen K. Levy, Eduardo Miranda, Julien Nembrini, Louis-Claude Paquin, Ken Rinaldo, Lucia Santaella, Nell Tenhaaf, Guy Théraulaz, Inga Svala Thorsdottir, Stephen Wilson, Adam Zaretsky