ECO-Nuit Blanche and art/science collaboration at the Ontario Science Centre, Oct 3, 2013


ArtSciSalon Presents
 

ECO-Nuit Blanche and art/science collaboration at the Ontario Science Centre

Thursday Oct 03, 6:30-8:30
The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences
222 College Street · Toronto

 Jennifer Willet – Incubator (U of Windsor)
Ana Klasnja – Ontario Science Centre

Join us for an evening explore recent (and ongoing) collaborations between Incubator: Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science and Ecology, and the Ontario Science Centre !dea Gallery. (see poster here)

INCUBATOR Lab at the Ontario Science Centre: 4 years of student projects on display.

A presentation by Dr. Jennifer Willet and guests

INCUBATOR Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science and Ecology is an art/science laboratory in the School for Arts and Creative Innovation at the University of Windsor.  The INCUBATOR Lab functions as both a studio and a laboratory intended to support the proliferation of life and new ideas towards the production of bioart projects.  The INCUBATOR Lab is facilitates ongoing faculty and graduate level research and hosts the interdisciplinary undergraduate class BioART: Contemporary Art and the Life Sciences.

On October 05, 2013 an exhibition of 13 student bioart projects from the INCUBATOR Lab will go on exhibition at the !dea Gallery at the Ontario Science Centre.  “BioART: Contemporary Art and the life Sciences” is co-curated by Jennifer Willet and Ana Klasnja.  Additionally, INCUBATOR and the Ontario Science Centre are teaming up to co-produce an art/science performance event called the ECO NUIT PARADE as part of the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche the night of October 05 on Queen street West, Toronto.

With this talk, Willet (and participating students) will speak about INCUBATOR activities since 2009, and present some of the artworks included in the Ontario Science Centre exhibition and the ECO NUIT PARADE.

BioART: Contemporary Art and the life Sciences
!dea Gallery, Ontario Science Centre
Oct. 5, 2013 – Feb. 2, 2014
KACIE AUFFRET, BRYCE CLARK, LAUREN DIVITO, ERICA DOUGLAS, ERIKA DUCHENE, CHELSEA GREENWELL, ASHLEIGH GUNTER, AMANDA LAFLAMME, BRANDON LEMIRE, NATALIE NADEAU, TINA SUNTRES, STEPHEN SURLIN, AMANDA WHITE

Curated by Jennifer Willet and Ana Klasnja
http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/ScienceNow/IdeaGallery/Bioart/

ECO NUIT PARADE
Saturday October 05 2013  7:00 pm – 7:00 am
As part of the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
Location: CAMH Front Lawn, 1001 Queen Street West

Co produced by INCUBATOR Lab (Willet) and the Ontario Science Centre (Klasnja)
http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1302

Bios

Dr. Jennifer Willet is an internationally successful artist in the emerging field of BioArt. Her work resides at the intersection of art and science, and explores notions of representation, the body, ecologies, and interspecies interrelations in the biotechnological field.  She engages in performance, installation, photography and sculpture based artistic practices, mixed with protocols and life forms from the biological sciences.

Ana Klasnja is senior multimedia producer and curator of the !dea Gallery at the Ontario Science Centre

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