Alter/Altar: Artist Panel Discussion

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

A panel discussion featuring Amber Eve Anderson, Ashley Pastore, and Douglas Luman, moderated by Paula Burleigh. Watch the full conversation below.

pRUNE AFTER BLOOM: ARTIST PANEL DISCUSSION

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

A virtual panel discussion featuring Barrow Parke, Heather Brand, and Trisha Holt, moderated by Mari Christmas. Watch the full conversation below.

PERFORMANCE ANXIETY: ARTIST PANEL DISCUSSION

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

A virtual panel discussion featuring artists Eric D. Charlton, Taha Heydari, and Wednesday Kim, moderated by Paula Burleigh. Watch the full conversation below.

Bioscientific imaginaries: artist panel discussion

Wednesday october 7, 202o, 12:30 - 1:30 PM EST

Watch a virtual panel discussion featuring artists Kathy High, Marta de Menezes, and Jennifer Willet, moderated by Dr. Delia Byrnes.

About the participants:

Delia Byrnes is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Sustainability at Allegheny College. She researches and teaches environmental humanities with a focus on energy, the arts, and environmental justice in the contemporary US. She is currently working on a book project titled "Refining America: Energy, Infrastructure, and the Arts of Resistance in the US Gulf Coast" that examines how writers, artists, and activists imagine more just energy futures. Her essays and reviews appear in Modern Fiction Studies, The Global South, Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies, Environmental History Now, The E3W Review of Books, and The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada. 

Kathy High is an interdisciplinary artist / educator who collaborates with scientists, and considers living systems, animal sentience, and the ethical dilemmas of biotechnology and medical industries. She produces photographs, films, sculpture and installations posing queer and feminist questions into areas of bio-science that have been exhibited across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia. High is Head and Professor of Video and New Media in Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. She is a supporter of community DIY science and ecological art practices and is the project coordinator for a non-profit urban environmental center, NATURE Lab at The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Among many honors, she is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Guggenheim Foundation.

Marta de Menezes explores the intersection between Art and Biology, working in research laboratories demonstrating that new biological technologies can be used as new art media.In 1999 de Menezes created her first biological artwork (Nature?) by modifying the wing patterns of live butterflies. Since then, she has used diverse biological techniques including functional MRI of the brain to create portraits where the mind can be visualised (Functional Portraits, 2002); fluorescent DNA probes to create micro-sculptures in human cell nuclei (nucleArt, 2002); sculptures made of proteins (Proteic Portrait, 2002-2007), DNA (Innercloud, 2003; The Family, 2004) or incorporating live neurons (Tree of Knowledge, 2005) or bacteria (Decon, 2007). Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions, articles and lectures. She is currently the artistic director of Ectopia, an experimental art laboratory in Lisbon, and Director of Cultivamos Cultura in the South of Portugal.

Jennifer Willet is an internationally recognized artist in the 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. In 2009, Willet opened the first biological art lab in Canada, called INCUBATOR: Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Ecology.  For more, see www.incubatorartlab.com. Previously, Willet collaborated with Shawn Bailey on an innovative computational, biological, artistic, project titled BIOTEKNICA, she taught in the Studio Arts Department at Concordia University, and completed her PhD in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at the same institution. She now serves as Assistant Professor in the School of Visual Arts at The University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. Willet’s exhibitions include: the Arnolfini Museum, Bristol UK (2010), Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY (2009), Ars Electronica festival, Linz (2008), FOFA Gallery, Montreal (2007), ISEA San Jose, USA (2006), Biennial Electronic Arts Perth Perth, Australia (2004), The European Media Arts Festival Osnabrück , Germany (2003), La Société des arts et technologiques (SAT) Montreal, Canada (2005), among others. Jennifer Willet’s work is managed by IOTA Institute: https://iotainstitute.com/gallery/

Jennie Goldstein presents Handwork: Narratives of Craft from the Whitney Museum of American Art

Using the exhibition Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 at the Whitney Museum as a starting point, visiting scholar Jennie Goldstein will discuss how artists have taken up craft—its materials, methods, and strategies--to subvert prevalent standards of so-called “fine art,” often in direct response to the politics of their time. In challenging accepted ideas of taste, the artists discussed share in common the reclaiming of visual languages that have typically been coded as feminine, domestic, or vernacular. By highlighting marginalized modes of artistic production, these artists challenge the power structures that determine artistic value, and demonstrate that craft-informed techniques of making carry their own kind of knowledge, one that is crucial to a more complete understanding of the history and potential of art.

Domestic Displays: Artist talks and panel discussion, featuring Natalie Baxter, Stephanie Kantor, and Ian F. Thomas. Recorded on January 21, 2020 at Allegheny College

Speculative Geographies: Artist talks and panel discussion, featuring Andrew Erdos, Yasue Maetake, and Barry Underwood . Recorded on October 8, 2019 at Allegheny College.