Seminars

Oron Cattsは、バイオアートのパイオニアの一人であり、生きた生物を使って芸術作品を想像しています。今回は、Hela細胞を使った芸術作品の展示会を大阪ナレッジホールで開催するために来日されました。この機会に、奈良先端大でもセミナーをお願いしました。このような芸術作品にはまだ馴染みがないと思いますが、将来的には大きく発展する可能性を秘めており、多数の聴講をお願いいたします。

Oron Catts氏の略歴
Oron Catts is an artist, researcher and curatorof Western Australia. Under Catts’ leadership SymbioticA has gone on to win the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in Hybrid Art (2007) the WA Premier Science Award (2008) and became a Centre for Excellence in 2008.
In 2009 Catts was recognised by Thames &category “Beyond Design”, and by Icon Magazine (UK) as one of the top 20 Designers, “making the future and transforming the way we work”.
Catts interest is Life; more specifically thescientists, Catts have developed a body of work that speaks volumes about the need for new cultural articulation of evolving concepts of life.
Catts was a Research Fellow in Harvard Medicalrecently set up a biological art lab called Biofilia - Base for Biological Art and Design, at the School of Art, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, where he was a Visiting Professor.
Catts’ ideas and projects reach beyond the confinesareas such as new materials, textiles, design, architecture, ethics, fiction, and food.