Cynthia is currently looking for other venues that may want to host this exhibition later this year.

The image below shows digital videomicrograph stills of adult stem cells from my blood changing fates in the laboratory over 7 days to become beating cardiac cells:

at the “Virtual Anatomies” Symposium @ The University of Queensland next week

Full Symposium details: http://www.ched.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=159754&pid=40622

I will be discussing my early use of scientific imaging technologies and and the ways that I have re-interpreted scientific data from an artistic perspective. I will give examples from some of my artworks and art/science collaborative projects.

My video HOST will also be shown as a large-scale 3 channel outdoor projection at Parer Place, QUT CPI during the Symposium closing event, see the image still below.

The image is to be included in the Art & Science Collaborations - DIGITAL2011: The Alchemy of Change   http://www.asci.org/

 This will be ASCI’s 13th International Digital Print Competition/Exhibition, to be held at the New York Hall of Science, September 3, 2011 – February 5, 2012

Image Description: “Changing fates” is the term biomedical scientists use to describe the process of redirecting some adult pluripotent stem cells into becoming other types of cells. My “Changing Fates_004” digital print shows modified digital videomicrograph image data of adult stem cells extracted from my blood, changing into beating cardiac cells “in vitro” after seven days. These cellular changes occurred in response to the introduction, on the third day in culture, of my scientific collaborator’s proprietary chemical mix - a form of contemporary Alchemy that may have the potential to materially modify or reconstruct our bodies.

Testing New Ground: An Interdisciplinary Discussion on Hybrid Habitats

has been accepted for presentation at ISEA2011 Istanbul next September.

Panel members in addition to myself are:

• Chair, Dr Leonie Cooper
• Dr Andrew Burrell
• Assoc. Prof. Angela Ndalianis

Panel Abstract

Unique synergies will emerge from this panel discussion on the habitat as theorists and artists speak to the ways in which their current research raises insights into contemporary modes of technologically mediated inhabitation.

With a focus on diverse sites that are both material/virtual, actual/imaginary, discussion will consider the issues at stake as we shift from imaging and thinking of the screen as a portal to other worlds or a mirror of those that we actually inhabit to alternative accountings of the hybrid and augmented experiences on offer.

The mixed realities of new urban destinations, artworks that employ game engines and 3D platforms to make visible the conditions for alternate life and consciousness,  space stations that are no longer just artificial worlds actually occupied by astronauts but augmented realities inhabited potentially by all earth dwellers  - these are all sites that move beyond established understandings of the integration of screen and communications technologies with physical architecture in the form of the digital city or the virtual worlds that have been conjured up through digital networks to be embodied by the user as avatar.

In contemporary culture, alternative forms of inhabitation, both imaginary and actual, embodied and sensorial, are being enacted that point to possible transfigurations of the screen as a habitat.

mellifera : neoNascent - experimedia, state library victoria as part of freeplay 2010

mellifera : neoNascent is a rebirth of the mellifera environment on the OpenSim platform. Inspired by an invitation to show mellifera at this years Freeplay Festival in Melbourne we have completely reworked the environment and also created a new version of mellifera – echoes of travels in new territories (2010). You can visit us at Freeplay or online in ReactionGrid (Caerleon-Mnmemosyne region)

This project and residency was supported by RMIT School of Art and the Design Reseach Institute, as part of ‘Drawing Out 2010′.

mellifera:

a mixed reality project

Trish Adams & Andrew Burrell

WEDNESDAY 7 TO FRIDAY 9 APRIL

OPENING THURSDAY 8 APRIL 12–12.45PM

LOCATION DRI DESIGN HUB GALLERY

ADDRESS RMIT BUILDING 91, CITY CAMPUS

OPENING HOURS WEDNESDAY 12–5PM THURSDAY 10AM–5PM FRIDAY 10AM–4PM

FORUM THURSDAY 8 APRIL 1 – 2.45PM

LOCATION DRI SEMINAR ROOM, LEVEL 3, RMIT BUILDING 91, 110 VICTORIA ST, MELBOURNE.

PARTICIPANTS DR. TRISH ADAMS, DR .ANDREW BURRELL, DR. LEONIE COOPER, MARTINE COROMPT, DOMINIC REDFERN – CHAIR A/P LINDA WILLIAMS

PUBLIC SCREENING FEDERATION SQUARE, THURSDAY 8 APRIL, BETWEEN 6.30 – 9.30

mellifera now has its own youTube channel. For video documentation of mellifera have a look at

http://www.youtube.com/user/melliferaProject