Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

We are pleased to announce three half-day, interdisciplinary workshops on the contemporary relationship between art, politics and the life science, supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Centre for the Advanced Study of Contemporary Performance Practice, and Centre for Social and Economic Aspects of Genetics.

Representing and Intervening: The World(s) of the GeneChip
March 15, 2:00-5:00
Institute of Advanced Studies, MR2-3

Speakers: Oron Catts (Perth, Australia), Brian Forde (Lancaster), Maureen McNeil (Lancaster), Thomas Söderqvist (Copenhagen), Richard Twine (Lancaster).

History: Bio-Remediation between Art and Science
March 29, 2:00-5:00
Institute of Advanced Studies, MR2-3

Speakers: Richard Bardgett (Lancaster), Mel Chin (Ashville, US), Georg Dietzler (Köln), Marcia Pointon (London).

Art, Science and Institutions
May 10, 2:00-5:00
Institute of Advanced Studies, MR2-3

Speakers: Bronac Ferran (London), Charlie Gere (Lancaster), Anna Munster (Sydney), Joseph Nechvatal (Paris), Kate O’Riordan (Lancaster).

Organisers: Adrian Mackenzie (Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster) & Paolo Palladino (History, Lancaster)

Attendance is free, but please pre-register: j.rye@lancaster.ac.uk

For further details, see:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/history/research/science_art_politics.htm