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TOUCH ME FESTIVAL INTERSECTIONS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ART KONTEJNER + MULTIMEDIA INSTITUTE OPERATION:CITY - “BADEL” - ZAGREB SYMPOSIUM ABUSE OF INTELLIGENCE Sept. 13-15, 2005 Schedule: Sept 13, day first [room 12] 18:00-19:30 - first session: + Bojana Kunst (SI): Disobedient Connections: On Production of Monstruosity + Matthew Fuller (UK): Calculation Space 19:30-21:00 - second session: + Thomas Kaiser (DE) and Joe Davis (US) – presentation of artistic work Sept. 14, second day [room 12] 18:00-18:45 - first session: + Olivier Razac (FR): Reality TV and Biopolitics 18:45-21:00 - second session: + Jens Hauser (DE): Bios, Techne, Logos: Software and Hardware Approaches to Bioart + Oron Catts (AU): Victimless Utopia or Victimless Hypocrisy? Sept. 15, third day [room 15 – C.CRED] 18:00-19:30 + Natalie Jeremijenko (US): Silent Observers or Not: Scripting Reciporocity in Interactive Systems + Ivan Marušić Klif (HR): Allo, Allo – presentation of artwork Biographies: Bojana Kunst is a philosopher and art theorist. She works at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts. Her primary research interests are the problem of the body in the contemporary performance, theatre and dance, gender studies, philosophy of the body, art and technology, art and science, theatre and dance studies, representation of contemporary identities. For years she is working as dramaturge in dance and tehater, she is a member of the editorial board of the magazine for the contemporary performing arts Maska and vice-president of the Slovenian Society of the Aesthetics. She has authered two books: The Impossible Body - Body and Machine: Theatre, Representation of the Body and Relation to the Artificial (1999) and Dangerous Connections - Body, Philosophy and Relationship to the Artificial (2004). http://www.kunstbody.org/ Matthew Fuller is currently Reader in Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. He's member of renowned net.art group I/O/D. He is the author of 'Behind the Blip, essays on the culture of software', (Autonomedia 2003) and 'Media Ecologies, materialist energies in art and technoculture' (MIT 2005). http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma/staff/mfuller/ Thomas Kaiser works as a Research Engineer at the Clondiag GmbH in Jena, Germany. His research interests include data analysis/standardization, micro-/nanotechnologies, integrated optics, molecular biology, and currently DNA extraction/purification. In art he worked on (together with Joe Davis) imaging technology based on molecular interaction with potential for extraordinary resolution; proof-of-concept images made from DNA, vitamins, protein, gold and silver featured at "L' Art Biotech", 2003 bioart exhibition in Nantes, France; on development of theremin- and audio synthesizing-microscopes; new multi-channel audio microscope development with audio environments, performance; ongoing work in transformations of scientific perception. Joe Davisis a research affiliate in the Department of Biology, the Alexander Rich Laboratory at MIT. As an artist he has done extensive research in molecular biology and bioinformatics for the production of genetic databases and new biological art forms. His teaching experience in the MIT graduate architecture program (Master of Science in Visual Studies) and in undergraduate painting and mixed media at the Rhode Island School of Design has informed his artistic practice. He has exhibited in the United States, Canada, and Europe at Ars Electronica. He is the first artist to use DNA as an artistic medium in 1986 with the beginnings of the Microvenus project. Other of his projects include: Audio Microscope; Riddle of Life project; experiments with Andrew Zaretsky how Escherichia coli respond to sound; in the project Milky Way DNA Davis wants to put an image of the Milky Way galaxy into the cells of a mouse; recorded the vaginal contractions of women, and translated them into text, music, phonetic speech and ultimately into radio signals, which were beamed from MIT's Millstone radar to Epsilon Eridani, Tau Ceti, and two other nearby star systems. Olivier Razacearned his Ph. D. at the University Paris 8 - St. Denis. His research interest include issues of biopower, biopolitics and spectacularization of society. This young philosopher earned the international recognition with his much translated study Barbed Wire: A Political History (2000). In France he has drawn public attention by entering the reality TV debate with a reflection on the intrications between the society of spectacle and domestication The Screen and the Zoo: Spectacle and Domestication, from Colonial Displays to Loft Story (2002). Jens Hauseris a Paris based art curator, writer, cultural journalist and film maker. He has organised a huge show on biotechnological art at the National Arts and Culture Centre Le Lieu Unique Nantes/France, including eleven artists employing biotechnology as a means of expression, and published L'Art Biotech' (2003). His forthcoming exhibitions deal with the paradigm of "skin as a technological interface". He is teaching at universities and art schools internationally and is a PhD candidate in media studies at Ruhr University Bochum. Hauser has written and given conferences about the interaction of film culture and video games and on contemporary music. He is the director of creative radio pieces, sound environments and documentary films which have been shown in festivals and as video installations in museums. He is also regularly contributing to the european cultural channel ARTE since 1992, and is currently involved in two long-term film projects about bioart. Oron Cattswas Born in Finland, currently living and working in Western Australia. Tissue engineering artist. Co-founder and Artistic Director of SymbioticA, the Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA. Founder of the Tissue Culture & Art Project/TC&A (1996). Research Fellow at the Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication Laboratory, Harvard Medical School (2000-2001). Trained in product design and specialized in the future interaction of design and biological derived technologies. BA, (first Class Honours), and Visual Art (MA). Natalie Jeremijenkois Assistant Professor at the Visual Arts Department of the University of California San Diego. She is a new media artist who works at the intersection of contemporary art, science, and engineering. Her work takes the form of large-scale public art works, tangible media installations, single channel tapes, and critical writing. It investigates the theme of the transformative potential of new technologies - particularly information technologies. She has exhibited at prominent exhibitions and exhibition venues such as Dokumenta, Whitney Biennal, ZKM, PS 1, etc. http://visarts.ucsd.edu/faculty/njeremij.htm Ivan Maruöić Klifwas born in 1969 in Zagreb. Graduated from The School of Audio Engineering in Amsterdam in 1994. His interests include fine arts (light installations and kinetic objects), music and sound for theatre, film and television, stage design (theatre, film and television) and performance art. In recent years he started working with computers - mostly in the field of multimedia programming, interactive video and on problems of interfacing computers with the real world. Exhibited and performed in Holland, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Macedonia, Slovenia and Croatia.