Bio-engineered Living Entities in Art: Aliveness, Duration, and Movement in Bricolage

Ziggy O’Reilly is a PhD student in the Social Cognition for Human Robot Interaction Line at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova. She completed her Masters of Biological Arts at SymbioticA, within the School of Human Sciences, at the University of Western Australia.

Dr Christina Chau is a lecturer at Curtin University in the School of Media, Culture, Art and Social Inquiry. She is the managing editor for Deleuze and Guattari Studies, published a book titled Movement, Time, Technology and Art (2017 Springer), and also published in the areas of kinetic sculpture, robotics and online visual culture.

Nathan Thompson is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring the possibilities of man/machine interaction and the hidden corners that arise from this relationship. Mostly he implements machine/robots that play along the blurred edge of the interactive while showing independent thought, only slightly tethered to the audience’s actions.

Guy Ben-Ary, is a Perth based artist and researcher. He currently works at SymbioticA, the centre for excellence in biological arts at the University of Western Australia. Recognised internationally as a major artist and innovator working across science and media arts, Guy specialises in biotechnological artwork, which aims to enrich our understanding of what it means to be alive.