Workshop Topic: The purpose of the A&D Life workshop is to create space and stimulate a network for dialogue about the relationships between art, design, and the life sciences. Workshop processes can be described as attempts to critically identify and evaluate existing forms, structures, and strategies of creative engagement that span the artistic and life science domains. In these early stages of the organization’s development, the focus of A&D Life is to 1) understand the diversified viewpoints and approaches that structure creative engagement with the life sciences, 2) identify historical and contemporary precedents for work in these areas, 3) employ these theoretical and historical connections as catalysts for creative practices, and 4) register creative work as research that documents the complex, shifting relationships of art practice at the interface of contemporary social and scientific endeavor.
Workshop Coordinator: Gabriel Harp
Faculty Advisor: Patricia Olynyk
Organized with financial support (2005-2007) from the Rackham Graduate School, Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs
