in situ: art body medicine
Call for Submissions for Subtle Technologies 2007:
in situ: art body medicine
May 24th – May 27th 2007
University of Toronto, Toronto Canada
Submission Deadline January 3, 2007
“As scientific and technological breakthroughs prominently occupy our culture, we ask where the boundaries are. We are interested in investigating how we relate bodies in situ: as parts, as a whole, as systems; how we identify, map, modify, protect, violate, and heal.
We invite a wide interpretation of bodies including the molecular, physical, cultural, economic, legal, political, energetic, electrical and spiritual.
Examples of possible topics include:
Racial and Personalized Medicine
Tele-Medicine
Pharmaceuticalized Body
Organ Trafficking
Inter- Species Communications
History of Medicine
Reproductive Technologies
Addictions and Obsessions
Sexual / Gendered Body
Body Machine Interfaces and Sensors
Violated Body
Embryoid Bodies and Stem Cells
Infectious Agents and Diseases
Local or Traditional Healing Practices
New Therapeutic Paradigms
Population Dynamics and the Environment
Spiritual Body
Extropian and Post Human Investigations
Body and Performance, Body and Rituals
Bioethics
Trangenic Bodies and Tissue Engineering
Genomics Proteomics Metablomics and other -omicsProposals for the following will be considered:
workshops, performances, poster sessions, and symposium presentations.How to Apply:
Details are available on the online submissions form.
Also related, from the new issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac:
Bodies in Biotechnology: Embodied Models for Understanding Biotechnology in Contemporary Art (pdf) by Jennifer Willet