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Die Kunst hat sich biotechnologischer Verfahren angenommen und jetzt stellt sich die Frage, ist sie in der Lage, die sozialen Implikationen der angeblich neutralen Biowissenschaft aufzuzeigen und zu kritisieren?
Die Ausstellung "Put on your Blue Genes" will auf diese Fragen Antworten geben.
Biotech-Kunst und die Verheissungen der Biotechnologie.

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The Arts & Genomics Centre, Public Launch
Saturday 25th June, 2005
Trippenhuis, KNAW, Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam
10:30 Reception
11:00 Welcome and launch by the KNAW, Robert Zwijnenberg and Helen
Chandler from the Arts and Genomics Centre and special guest.
11:30 Session: BioArt: Medium meets Message
Featuring Jens Hauser, curator of "L'Art Biotech'" (Nantes, 2003),
Jeffrey Wyckoff, artist and Director of Intravital Imaging, Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, New York and Joe Davis, artist in
residence at MIT.
13:30 Session: Contamination or Cross-fertilisation?: Artists in
Laboratories Featuring Helen Chandler on the Arts and Genomics Centre’s plans for an Artists in Labs programme, Huub de Groot of Leiden University’s Faculty of Science on work at the NMR laboratory and Jill Scott on the Swiss Artists in Labs experience.
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The Arts and Genomics Centre
SILS, A1.15 Kruislaan 318, Postbus 94062, 1090GB Amsterdam
Tel: +31 (0)20-525 7789
Fax: +31 (0)20-525 7934
info@artsgenomics.org
www.artsgenomics.org

Apply for a chance to present your work at the launch of the Centre

The Arts and Genomics Centre is now actively searching for artists who work or plan to work in the field of biogenetic art. In particular, the centre is offering the opportunity for artists to present their work and make an appeal for a collaboration with scientists at the centre’s official launch on Saturday 25th June at the Trippenhuis of the KNAW in Amsterdam. To apply for the opportunity to present your work at the public launch of The Arts and Genomics Centre, please send a CV, examples of work and a short statement explaining your interest in biogenetic art (in Dutch or English) to the address below. If selected you will be asked to prepare a 5-minute presentation of your current work and given the opportunity to explain your proposal and ask for collaborative assistance from scientists in the audience.

Helen Chandle
The Arts and Genomics Centre
A1.15, Kruislaan 318
Postbus 94062
1090GB Amsterdam

Telephone: +31 (0)20 525 7789
Email: info @ artsgenomics.org
Web: www.artsgenomics.org

Official Launch of The Arts and Genomics Centre