Image courtesy Suzanne Anker

LASER Talks in Santa Fe: Bioart and Gender in the Americas

SciArt Santa Fe hosts a FEMeeting LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Panel exploring Bioart and Gender in the Americas,with Leena Lee (Lena Ortega), Cecilia Vica, Carol Padberg and Suzanne Anker

WHEN: Sunday, July 30, 11am NM, USA (GMT-6). Find your timezone here 
WHERE: SITE Santa Fe, 1606 paseo de peralta santa fe, NM 87501 United States
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This LASER is a public presentation that marks the end of the FEMeeting 2023 Taos. As a highly international community, the program of FEMeeting 2023 “FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology” includes 70 presentations by 81 speakers from 9 countries.

SPEAKERS BIOS:

Cecilia Vilca is a Peruvian trans artist feminist, chola techno-witch and language activist. M.A. Digital Arts, Universitat PompeuFabra, Barcelona, Spain. Founding member of creative and digital heritage division, MyAP - Microscopía Electrónica y Aplicaciones en el Perú, Electron Microscopy Laboratory. 

Leena Lee (Lena Ortega) is a sound artist, researcher, designer, and teacher who explores nature-culture relationships with particular emphasis on the ecology of the sound environment, bioacoustics, and field recordings. She is a member of the research and production group Arte+Ciencia of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 

Carol Padberg is an artist, writer, educator and Co-Director, with Mary Mattingly, of the Low-Residency Concentration within the MFA in Studio Arts at the University of New Mexico. Carol weaves in collaboration with living Oyster mushrooms and is exploring their plastic digesting capacities. 

Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. Her practice investigates the ways in which nature is being altered in the 21st century. Chairing SVA’s Fine Arts Department in NYC since 2005, She continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department’s Bio Art Lab. 

FEMeeting is driven by the desire to develop and promote a more direct collaboration at the level of artistic and research projects between all individuals who identify with the female gender. Most of the program is organized as closed sessions, but the program also includes this public session that aims to encourage participation and attendance among all individuals interested in the topics of the conference independently of their gender.  Launched in 2017, the idea behind the conference “FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology” was orchestrated by the Portuguese artist Marta de Menezes and scholar Dalila Honorato

FEMeeting website https://femeeting.com

SPONSORS:

This LASER is presented by FEMeeting and SciArt Santa Fe, with support from The National Endowment for the Arts, the University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Fine Arts, and Fulbright.

The Leonardo/ISAST LASERs are a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of the LASERs is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 50 cities around the world. To learn more about how our LASER Hosts and to visit a LASER near you please visit our website. @lasertalks