Lundgren Room, Life Sciences Building, Syracuse University, NY
Renée Crown Honors Symposium presents:
Exploring BioArt – Transgenic Human Co-Creation & Germline Aesthetics
Please join us for an engaging and provocative seminar by Adam Zaretsky, Ph.D. (Ionian University) as part of the Renee Crown Honors Symposium. This event is a collaboration between Boryana Rossa (VPA), Karin Nisenbaum (Philosophy), and me, with support from the Renée Crown Honors Program Team and Director, Danielle T Smith. Please forward to whoever is interested, all are welcome!
Discussion & Treats to Follow
This interactive session will showcase wet lab bio art workshops designed for non-biologists, offering an unconventional perspective on reproductive technology, germline aesthetics, and transgenic human co-creation. Adam Zaretsky’s work blurs the boundaries between science and art, challenging legal, ethical, and social perspectives on embryogenesis and development as bio art. Topics will also include cryogenic storage, human colonies, and novel approaches to archiving biological expression.
Join us as we rethink the intersections of biology, creative practice, and speculative futures!
Adam Zaretsky
Postdoctoral researcher at the C:Hub moving image
Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Audio and Visual Arts (Ionian University)
https://inarts.eu/en/lab/staff/zaretsky/
Adam Zaretsky, Ph.D., is a post-doctoral researcher at the HAL program, as well as a collaborating artist at InArts Lab of Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University. He is also a former researcher at the MIT department of biology, and has for the past decade been teaching an experimental bioart class called VivoArts at: San Francisco State University (SFSU), SymbioticA (UWA), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), University of Leiden’s The Arts and Genomic Centre (TAGC), and the Waag Society. His art practice focuses on an array of legal, ethical, social and libidinal implications of biotechnological materials and methods with a focus on transgenic humans. Zaretsky stages lively, hands-on bioart production labs. At the present he is also a team member in the project “Rewilding Cultures” developed by the Feral Lab Network and co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.