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Genomics, the Arts & Popular Culture
Conference
This conference at Duke may be of interest to ARLIS members
within driving distance. I thought it added an interesting component
(genomics) to the study of arts and popular culture. It is free and
open to the public.
John
Genomics, the Arts & Popular Culture
Conference
November 4-6
240 Franklin Center (unless otherwise noted)
Duke University
Free and Open to the Public.
For more information, see www.genomeculture.org or contact
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Conference Schedule:
Thursday, November 4
7:30 p.m. Keynote Address 1
LIFE TRANSFORMATION - ART MUTATION
Artist and Author, Eduardo Kac
Professor and Chair, Art and Technology Department
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
107 White Lecture Hall, East Campus
Eduardo Kac's work reveals the alternately poetic, political,
personal, and philosophical approaches by which the artist
examines
contemporary life and speculates on our collective future. After
an
introduction contextualizing his pioneering telepresence work, in
progress since the mid-1980s, Kac will give examples and further
discuss his transgenic art. Kac has integrated many disciplines to
present an imaginative view of art's relevance to the contemporary
world, a view which has firm roots in the artist's background in
philosophy and literature. The artist is internationally
recognized
for his unique artwork which focuses on the relationships among
and
between humans, animals, machines, and different life forms. The
presentation will include a discussion of "GFP Bunny" (Alba,
the
green rabbit) and "Move 36", Kac's most recent work,
currently on
view at Gwangju Biennale, Korea, and Bienal de São Paulo,
Brazil.
Friday, November 5
10:00 -
10:30 Opening Remarks
Karla FC Holloway
William Rand Kenan Professor of English, Duke University
10:30 -
12:30 Panel 1: In Our Genes,
Science Fiction Looks Within
Chair: Priscilla Wald, Associate Professor of English and Women's
Studies,
Duke University
David Kirby, Lecturer in Science Communication, University of
Manchester
The Devil in Our DNA: A Brief History of Eugenic Themes in Science
Fiction
Films
Britt Rusert, Graduate Student in English, Duke University
GATTACA and the Shedding of Identity
Heather Schell, Assistant Professor, University Writing Program,
George
Washington University
The Fur beneath the Skin: Genes, Wolves, and Contemporary
Masculinity
12:30 -
2:00 Lunch
2:00 -
4:00 Panel 2: Arts of
Evolution
Chair: Jay Clayton, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and
Departmental Chair, Vanderbilt University
Lisa Lynch, Assistant Professor, English and Media Studies, The
Catholic
University of America
'Art is Not Terrorism:' Critical Art Ensemble and The Politics of
Genetic
Artwork
Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English,
Cornell
University
Radical Alterities: Interactive Art in the Age of Postevolutionary
Strategies
Alys Eve Weinbaum, Associate Professor of English, University of
Washington
Reproducing Race in an Age of Genomics
4:00 -
4:30 Break
4:30 Keynote Address 2
"The Double Helix in Hospital and Hollywood"
Wayne Grody, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Divisions of Medical Genetics & Molecular
Pathology,
Depts. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pediatrics & Human
Genetics
Director, Diagnostic Molecular Pathology Laboratory
UCLA School of Medicine
Film and Television Consultant
Saturday, November 6
10:00 -
12:00 Panel 3: Biotechnology
and Being
Chair: Ellen Wright Clayton, Rosalind E. Franklin Professor and
Director,
Center for Genetics and Health Policy, Professor of Pediatrics and
Law,
Vanderbilt University
Rob Mitchell, Assistant Professor of English, Duke University
Sacrifice and the Economics of
Genomics
Susan McHugh, Assistant Professor of English, University of New
England
Flora, not Fauna: GM Culture and
Agriculture
Hasan Shanawani, GELP Fellow, Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and
Policy, Dr of
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Reporting of Race in Genomics Studies--It's not Black and White
12:00 -
1:30 Lunch
1:30 -
3:30 Panel 4:
Genomics and the Social Terrain
Chair: Karla F.C. Holloway, William Rand Kenan Professor of English,
Duke
University
Celeste Condit, Professor of Speech Communication, University of
Georgia
How Culture and Science Make Race 'Genetic'
Stephanie Turner, Assistant Professor of English, University of
Houston-
Downtown
`If everything is transformed then what is extinction?' Transformation
and
Transgress in Julia Leigh's The Hunter
Erin Gentry, Graduate Student in English, Duke University
`The Old are Feeding on the Young:' Stem Cells, Longevity and the
Value of
Human Life
Lennard J. Davis, Professor of English, Disability Studies and
Medical
Education, University of Illinois Chicago
Reinventing Race in the Genetic Test Tube
This conference is funded by a grant from the NIH, co-authored by Jay
Clayton
and Ellen Wright Clayton of Vanderbilt University and Priscilla Wald
and Karla
Holloway of Duke University.
--
John J. Taormina
Director, Visual Resources Center
Dept. of Art and Art History
Duke University
Box 90764
112 East Duke Building
Durham NC 27708-0764
http://www.duke.edu/web/art/
Editor, Visual Resources Association
Bulletin
http://www.vraweb.org
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