[Sci-tech-public] Colloquium - April 5th with Lisa Cartwright

[Bianca Sinausky]

"The Subway Series"

A Joint Colloquium Between Harvard History of Science and MIT Program in
Science, Technology, and Society

 

Critical Art Practice and Biomedical Citizenship 

Lisa Cartwright

 University of California, San Diego

 

Abstract:

This talk moves across the work of contemporary artists who engage in
science practice and collaboration as a form of social engagement and
institutional critique, bringing their work explicitly into dialog with
issues of participatory biological citizenship and public engagement in
discourses of risk and information assessment and management. Beginning with
the recently revitalized physical biological systems work of Hans Haacke
from the late 1960s and moving through the 'tactical biopolitics' and
'contestational biology' performances of Critical Art Ensemble and Beatriz
da Costa, and concluding with a discussion of Natalie Jeremijenko's
'environmental health clinic,' model, I consider the art historical paradigm
of institutional critique out of which this model of inter-institutional
practice emerged; the working arrangements across universities,
laboratories, galleries, and industry that have made these communities of
practice possible; and the example of the state's attempt to manage the flow
of biological agents as material and intellectual property.

 

 

 

Monday, April 5, 2010

4pm

MIT, E51-095

 

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