Gabriel Harp’s thesis defense* entitled, “Network Entrepreneurship in Biology, Art, & Design” will take place on April 2nd, 2007 from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Art & Architecture Auditorium.

The talk will address:
-the assessment of interdisciplinary creative work
-common denominators for working across boundaries in biology, art and design
-systems art
-my creative work as a response to and example of these parameters

*I should note that with the MFA program there is an effort to semantically differentiate “thesis defense” from “thesis presentation”. I understand it as a response to the “defensive” position that the term may place students in as having to back up their work is somewhat of a “scientific” context. While I largely agree with the sentiment, I maintain the term “defense” as a way to signal my own desire to be challenged within the Art & Design academic context. Without such challenges and my own responses to those challenges, I find it difficult to assess and integrate the value of the work I’ve done with other perspectives and processes.