Dr. Jennifer Willet, an artist who has worked for 20+ years in the field of bioart, engaging hands-on biotech protocols towards the production of contemporary art. She will present her ongoing research across the arts, sciences, and humanities focusing on the notion that biotechnology can be reimagined as a technology of love. This concept will be applied to interspecies relationships in the laboratory, institutional bureaucracy and lab management techniques, and the design and construction of creative biotech laboratory spaces. Willet will highlight several artworks including When Microbes Dream, a giant wall installation that dwarfs the human viewer giving visitors a glimpse of imagined microbial perspective.
A large portion of Willet’s work is in collaboration with scientists at all career stages producing unexpected outcomes across the disciplines. In addition to producing Bioartworks, Willet studies the value of art/science collaborations. Willet will introduce audience members to a new public engagement series charting the value of radical interdisciplinarity in the lab called ART + SCIENCE = WOW!
Dr. Jennifer Willet is a Canada Research Chair in Art, Science, and Ecology, a Professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor, and Director of INCUBATOR Art Lab, founded in 2009. In 2017 she was inducted as a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists in the Royal Society of Canada, representing the emerging generation of intellectual leaders in Canada. Willet’s artwork is represented and managed by IOTA Institute in Halifax, NS. She lives in Windsor, Ontario with her spouse and two children.
www.incubatorartlab.com
@incubatorartlab
@jenniferwilletbioart
Organized by
Humanities Research Group – University of Windsor ⋅ 519 253 3000 Ext 3508 ⋅ hrgmail@uwindsor.ca
November 27 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Cost: free
Event Website/Tickets
Biology 113, University of Windsor
401 Sunset Avenue
Windsor,
N9B 3P4