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Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age", Edited by Dmitry Bulatov, book contains two DVDs, pg. 112-113 plus 11 min. video documentary, NCCA, Kaliningrad, 2009. ISBN: 978-5-94620-054-7
SNS Reall Fonds and Mondriaan Stichting, Viva la Vivo, The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd. (VASTAL), The Waag Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008-2009
SNS Reall Fonds and Mondriaan Stichting, Viva la Vivo, The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd. (VASTAL), The Waag Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008-2009
Vastal, VivoArts School for Transgenic Aestetics Ltd
is a temporary research and education institute of Adam Zaretsky and Waag Society. Waag Society has proudly invited Adam Zaretsky to be artist in residence over the course of 2009. During this period Zaretsky will research, give lectures and courses on Art and Life Sciences.
Life Sciences are seen as breakthrough technology. But as the research after and the use of, the genome – the code of life – for the medical, agricultural and military industries moves on, why not also genomics for art?
Hardware, software and wetware (the genetic building blocks of living organisms) are combined in new applications that raise urgent questions about aesthetics and ethics, about usefulness and necessity, about the borders between life and death, between art and science.
Courses, lectures and other activities will be presented and will contribute in the demystification of Life Sciences.
The course is for artists, designers, scientists and anyone who is curious about life.
Life Sciences are seen as breakthrough technology. But as the research after and the use of, the genome – the code of life – for the medical, agricultural and military industries moves on, why not also genomics for art?
Hardware, software and wetware (the genetic building blocks of living organisms) are combined in new applications that raise urgent questions about aesthetics and ethics, about usefulness and necessity, about the borders between life and death, between art and science.
Courses, lectures and other activities will be presented and will contribute in the demystification of Life Sciences.
The course is for artists, designers, scientists and anyone who is curious about life.
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Adam Zaretsky
Adam Zaretsky Adam Zaretsky is a PhD candidate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The past years, Zaretsky has taught VivoArts: Art and Biology Studio, an experimental ‘living art’ production class.
Adam Zaretsky graduated in Art Studio from University of California. He has an Art and Technology MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. He worked as a Research Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as an organic farmer and is a sex worker / activist.
Adam Zaretsky graduated in Art Studio from University of California. He has an Art and Technology MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. He worked as a Research Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as an organic farmer and is a sex worker / activist.
see glove box performance on vimeo
see video life DNA performance
ART for Non Humans performance
see video
Accompanying performance for the lecture. Plants are carnivores that wait for the meat to die.
Waag Society & Adam Zaretsky - The Stedelijk Museum Performance
see part 1, 2 and 3 on vimeo
- May
Saturday 23 May: EcoArt lab course
Speakers: Boo Chapple and Theun Karelse
13.00 – 17.00 hours
location: Theater Anatomicum at the Waag
(by registration info@vastal.eu)
Tuesday 26 May: EcoArt lecture
Speakers: Andy Gracie and Brandon Ballengée
20.00 – 22.00 hours
location: Theatrum Anatomicum at the Waag
Saturday 30 May: Organic Hybrid DNA Isolation lab course
13.00 – 17.00 hours
Speakers: Patrick Faas
location: Theatrum Anatomicum at the Waag
(by registration through info@vastal.eu)
Tuesday 2 June: Radical Food Lecture
20.00 – 22.00 hours
Speakers: Patrick Faas and Michiel Korthals
location: Theatrum Anatomicum at the Waag
- SeptemberFriday 11 September: Solar Transgenics, Synthetic Biology, Nanotech Biomimicry, Post-Natural History and Green Biofuel
Lecture with Huub de Groot and Rich Pell
location: Flamingoserre, Plantage Middenlaan 41 a, 1018 DC Amsterdam
20.00 – 22.00 hours
Tuesday 15 September: Tissue Culture
Lab with Oron Catts
location: Theatrum Anatomicum at the Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam
13.00 – 17.00 hours
Tuesday 15 September: Bio-art, bio-ethics
Lecture with Oron Catts and Matteo Pasquinelli
location: Theatrum Anatomicum at the Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam
20.00 – 22.00 hours
Saturday 19 September: Sequence DNA by Chance
Lab (by registration through info@vastal.eu)
location: Theatrum Anatomicum at the Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam
13.00 – 17.00 hours
Tuesday 13 October: Living Imprint: BioArt / BioPolitics
20.00 – 22.00 hours
Speakers: Jennifer Willet and Marta de Menezes
Moderator: Ellen ter Gast
location: Theatrum Anatomicum at the Waag0
November
Wednesday 11 November: Body Art Lecture
20.00 – 22.00 hours
location: Theatrum Anatomicum at the Waag
Thursday 12 November: Body Art Lab
19.30 – 21.00 hours
location: Bouwkeet van Stedelijk Museum, de Baarsjes
Saturday 14 November: Body Art Lab
14.00 – 17.00 hours
location: Bouwkeet van Stedelijk Museum, de Baarsjes
Tuesday 17 November: Animal Enrichment
14.00 – 22.00 hours
location: Theatrum Anatomicum at the Waag