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The Arts, Science and Technology Research Alliance (ASTRA) aims to bring together researchers across the University of Guelph whose interests lie within an intersection of the sciences, the humanities and the fine arts.


Jennifer Willet – April 1st 2010



Thursday april 1st 7:30pm
Science Complex Atrium

INCUBATOR: Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science and Ecology is a physical and theoretical hub, a new art/science laboratory at The University of Windsor.  It functions both as an apparatus in which environmental conditions can be controlled towards the assisted proliferation of life, but also as a site that supports the proliferation of new ideas.  Physically and metaphorically INCUBAITOR serves as site for innovative productive and performative imaginings of biotechnology as a technology of the body – a complex ecology – that implicates each of us intellectually and biologically in the continued propagation of the life sciences.  In 2011, in collaboration with The Banff Centre for the Arts, INCUBATOR will construct a portable laboratory in the Canadian Rocky Mountains – bringing internal scientific ecologies in direct contact with external ecological environments.

With this talk, Willet wishes to introduce the Art/Science Community to this new facility, with heavy emphasis on notions of ecology and democracy in imagining possible alternative biotechnological futures.  Willet will highlight the results of her new course, Bioart: Contemporary Art and the Life Sciences.  Additionally she will present her ongoing research and the bioart expedition planned for 2011.

Jennifer Willet is an internationally successful artist in the emerging field of BioArt. Her work explores notions of representation, the body, self and subjectivity, in relation to biotechnological and digital technologies with an emphasis on social and political criticism. She has exhibited, and presented her research extensively across Canada and internationally.  From 2000-2007 Willet and Shawn Bailey collaborated on an innovative computational, biological, artistic, project called BIOTEKNICA.

She taught in the Studio Arts Department at Concordia University from 2000-2007, and completed her PhD in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at the same institution.  Willet also taught “BioArt: Contemporary Art and the Life Sciences” for The Art and Genomics Centre at The University of Leiden in Spring 2008, and now works as an Assistant Professor in the School of Visual Arts, at The University of Windsor.  In 2009 she opened the first biological art lab in Canada, called INCUBATOR: Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Ecology at the University of Windsor.
Exhibitions include: the 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), and The Forest City Gallery London, Canada (2004), amongst others.  She has conducted research during residencies at The Banff Centre for the Arts Banff, Canada (2002, 2007, 2009), and SymbioticA, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (2004, 2006).

www.jenniferwillet.com

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jswillet@gmail.com


Don Bruce — 27 January 2010

Cyrano de Bergerac: How did the Bold Free-Thinker of the 17t Century become the Unhappy Long-Nosed Lover of the 19th Century?

Wednesday January 27, 2010, 4.00-5.20, Mackinnon 317

Donald Bruce joined the University of Guelph from the University of Alberta in 2006 to become the Dean of Arts. His main areas of research and teaching are nineteenth-century French Literature, Literary and Cultural Theory, and what the French call épistémocritique, that is the interrelationship between literature and different forms of knowledge, their representation, and their realization in discursive (or other) contexts. In particular, he was worked on the interface between scientific and non-scientific discourses (particularly literature) in the Nineteenth Century. With Prof. C. McWebb (University of Waterloo) he recently completed a journal issue of Texte (University of Toronto) on Épistemocritique.


Niles Eldredge

Niles Eldredge at Darwin

Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life

Niles Eldredge, American Museum of Natural History

December 1, 2009, 7:30pm

Science Complex Atrium

When Charles Darwin set sail on the HMS Beagle in the waning days of December, 1831, he was still a month away from his 23rd birthday. But, though historians correctly emphasize that Darwin’s training as a naturalist had been minimal up to that point, nonetheless his work—with Robert Grant while in medical school (Edinburgh, 1825-1827) and as an undergraduate at Cambridge under the influence of John Stevens Henslow (1828-1831)—had exposed him to the rudiments of field collecting, microscope dissection, analysis of life histories (Grant), and the importance of variation (Henslow). Grant was an evolutionist—together with Darwin looking for phylogenetic connections between plants and animals; Darwin read Lamarck while in Edinburgh.

Darwin was testing—even  “experimenting” with—transmutation from the moment he collected fossil mammals at Bahia Blanca, Argentina in 1832. He wrote his first transmutationally-imbued essay (entitled February 1835) while in Valdivia, Chile—basing his thoughts on the replacement of extinct by living congeneric species primarily on his experiences at Bahia Blanca in 1832 and 1833. In the Fall of 1835, he visited the Galapagos, observing his predicted pattern of geographic replacement of congeneric species developed through his earlier observations in Patagonia and the Falkland Islands.

Darwin returned home, opening his “Transmutation Notebooks” in 1837, immediately seeing the “tree of life” as a simple prediction of the hypothesis of transmutation, and recording his discovery of natural selection in 1838 and 1839. With most of his theory in place, Darwin nonetheless refrained from publishing until forced to do so on receiving the fateful letter and manuscript from A.R. Wallace in 1858.


Chris Bauch — November 18 2009

“Voluntary vaccination policies and vaccine scares as a free-rider problem: mathematical modelling approaches.”

November 18, 2009, 4-5.20 pm.

Rozanski Hall room 105

Chris Bauch, PhD is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Guelph. He is a specialist in mathematical models of infectious disease transmission (dynamic models), and has experience in a broad range of modeling techniques, including differential equations, agent-based computer simulations, spatial models, stochastic models, and network models.  Dr. Bauch is interested in using models to assess the impacts of vaccination and other control strategies, in the incorporation of human behavioral elements into transmission models, and in the economic evaluation of infectious disease interventions.  Recent projects include cost-effectiveness analysis of universal Hepatitis A vaccination in Canada, modeling parental vaccinating behavior for pediatric infectious diseases under a voluntary vaccination policy using game theory, and using mathematical models in cost-effectiveness analysis to inform the development of new measles vaccine technologies for use in lesser-developed countries.  He has worked extensively with epidemiologists, health economics, physicians, and public health researchers on various interdisciplinary collaborations.


Please also save the dates and times for our Winter 2010 speakers:

Donald Bruce (School of Languages and Literatures) “Cyrano de Bergerac: How did the Bold Free Thinker of the 17th Century become the Unhappy Long-Nosed Lover of the 19th Century?” (4-5.20pm, January 27)

Fred Eidlin (Political Science) “The Method of Problems vs The Method of Topics.” (4-5.20pm, February 24)

John Cranfield (Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics) “Healthy, wealthy and tall(er): what heights tell us about the well-being of Canadians” (4-5.20pm, April 7)

Locations TBA. Please visit this blog (http://astra.uoguelph.ca) for further information.


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