Bio-Art Mixer #19

Bio-Art Mixer #19

106 Life Sciences Complex (Lundgren Room), Syracuse University

Talks by: Richard Pell (Art, Carnegie Mellon) and Yasir Ahmed-Braimah (Biology, SU)

 Followed by Q&A moderated by Jasmina Tacheva (iSchool, SU)

+ refreshments and informal talks.

 

Richard Pell (Art, Carnegie Mellon)

https://postnatural.org/

“The manipulation of life is one of the oldest and most popularly neglected forms of cultural production. It is evident in prehistoric cave dwellings, organic vegetable gardens, concentrated animal feeding operations, and myriad other sites and scenes. PostNatural History is the study of the origins, habitats, and evolution of organisms that have been intentionally altered by humans through captivity, breeding, or engineering. These lifeforms can tell us stories that challenge and transform our understanding of human culture.”

“Human desire, curiosity, and fear shape the evolution of certain plants and animals just as they shape architecture, technology, art, music, and sports. Portions of the living world are cultural works, with provenance, attribution, responsibilities, and consequences.”

–Rich Pell, This Is Not An Artifact

Richard Pell is an Associate Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon. He is the founder and executive director of the Center for PostNatural History (CPNH), an organization dedicated to the collection and exposition of life-forms that have been intentionally and heritably altered through domestication, selective breeding, or genetic engineering. The Center for PostNatural History operates a permanent museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and produces traveling exhibitions that have appeared in science and art museums internationally including the Victoria and Albert Museum and Wellcome Collection in London, the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, the CCCB in Barcelona, the ZKM in Karlsruhe, the 2008 Taipei Biennial, and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The CPNH has been featured in National Geographic, Nature Magazine, American Scientist, National Public Radio, and the Atlas Obscura. The CPNH has been awarded a Rockefeller New Media fellowship, a Creative Capital fellowship, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, and received generous support from Waag Society and the Kindle Project. His book, This Is NOT An Artifact was published by K-Verlag Press in 2023. Pell is a National Academy of Science KAVLI Fellow and was awarded the 2016 Pittsburgh Artist of the Year.

Yasir Ahmed-Braimah (Biology, SU)

https://artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/people/faculty/yasir-ahmed-braimah/

Talk: Evolution and Genetics of Species Differences

The Bio Art Mixer was initiated by Heidi Hehnly (Biology, SU) and Boryana Rossa (Film and Media Arts, SU) in collaboration with the Canary Lab and Bioinspired Institute and is a fundamental element of the Bio-Art Research Coalition of Syracuse

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