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SUMMARY:NATURE Lab Workshop With Marta De Menezes: 3-day DIY CRISPR
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a three-part DIY Workshop series on CRISP-CAS9\, a genome editing system.  Explore the possibilities modern  science offers artists\, with an internationally-renownedpioneer of biological arts. \n\n\n\nPrior to the workshop will be an introductory lecture from 5:30-6:30. de Menezes will reflect on the possibilities and strategies of identity and nature\, and how they interconnect and entangle. Then roll up your sleeves for three evenings of do-it-yourself scientific investigation with CRISPR! \n\n\n\nCRISPR refers to a range of novel gene editing systems that can be programmed to edit DNA at precise locations. It allows the permanent modification of the genes in cells of living organisms. CRISPR enables novel basic research and promises a wide range of possible applications from biomedicine and agriculture to environmental challenges. The previously unknown precision and simplicity of CRISPR and its possibilities has led to a wide diversity of reactions. While some welcome it as a gene editing revolution others urge for a worldwide moratorium\, especially when it comes to human germline modifications. Particularly controversial is the CRISPR given possibility to intervene in the evolution of organisms. \n\n\n\nWe will investigate and work with DIY CRISPR\, look into its materiality and artistic possibilities\, and discuss and explore socio-cultural\, political and ethical implications within our transdisciplinary group over the course of three days!  \n\n\n\nMore about Marta de Menezes \n\n\n\nMarta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist (b. Lisbon\, 1975) with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon\, and a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford. She has been exploring the interaction between Art and Biology\, working in research laboratories demonstrating that new biological technologies\, DNA\, proteins and live organisms can be used as an art medium. Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions\, articles and lectures. She is since 2005 artistic director of Ectopia – Experimental Art Laboratory and from 2009 director of Cultivamos Cultura – Association. \n\n\n\nMarta de Menezes’ work explores the possibilities modern biology offers to artists. She has been developing the use of biology and biotechnology as new art media\, conducting her practice in research laboratories that also are her art studios. She has been trying to not only portray the recent advances of biological sciences\, but to incorporate biological material into her art as a way to convey a discourse that is not possible with any other medium: using DNA\, proteins\, cells and bodies offer an opportunity to explore novel ways of representation and communication. In the artistic research and practice that Marta de Menezes has been developing over the last 20 years\, she experiments with living and pulsing material\, changing that material to express her concepts. \n\n\n\nThrough her art works she positions herself and the audience in a range of perspectives that allow different understanding of self through other\, through nature and our alternative selves. \n\n\n\nThe works to be discussed include de Menezes’ first seminal bioart project entitled “Nature?” (1998) that questions the definition of nature through a non-genetic manipulation of live butterfly wing patterns\, and her most recent projects that use the technology of CRISPR-cas9 to reengage with questions of identity as a species\, as animals\, as composites\, and multiples – and how we understand these concepts in relation to our future. The works discussed are a series called The origin of Species: Post evolution using CRISPR-Cas9 to silence a transgenic modification of corn\, creating a new variety simultaneously natural and genetically modified\, developed in collaboration with Mexican philosopher Maria Antonia Gonzalez Valeiro (UNAM-Mexico)\, with geneticist and immunologist Luis Teixeira (IGC-Portugal)\, Truly Natural – using genome editing of GMO organisms through CRISPR-Cas9 leading to removal of transgenes\, Immortality for Two– where the author and her collaborator (her partner)\, Luís Graça\, immortalize each other immune cells\, achieved by introducing cancer-inducing genes in the cells with a viral vector\, and the most recent project\, Anti-Marta: self and non-self\, looking at antibodies between parents\, in collaboration with her partner\, immunologist Luís Graça (UNICEL Group\, Intituto de Medicina Molecular – Portugal). For more information\, please visit  http: http://martademenezes.com/ \n\n\n\nNATURE Lab [North Troy Art Technology and Urban Research in Ecology] is the Sanctuary’s resident ecological education program. NATURE Lab promotes sustainability\, and urban research in ecology using art\, technology and science. Programming is open to novices and experts alike. We are currently in development of the NATURE Lab Urban Environmental Center\, a resource for community science. \n\n\n\nPictures from the Event: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event is co-sponsored by the Vollmer Fries Lecture series\, the Arts Department and the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-lab-workshop-with-marta-de-menezes-diy-crispr/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:"Nature?" with Marta De Menezes
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exploration of how modern science can be incorporated into the artistry field with the help of an internationally-renowned pioneer of biological arts. \n\n\n\nIn her talk Nature\, Marta de Menezes will reflect on the possibilities and strategies of identity and nature\, and how they interconnect and entangle. The lecture will include an educational demonstration of using scientific technology as a creative form. Followed by a 3-day CRISPR workshop with Marta. Come with an open mind and be ready to discuss and debate this gene editing technology\, CRISPR.  Please remember that this a workshop to promote creative thinking using a DIY version of this technology\, combining art and science and interdisciplinary investigations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore about Marta de Menezes \n\n\n\nMarta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist (b. Lisbon\, 1975) with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon\, and a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford. She has been exploring the interaction between Art and Biology\, working in research laboratories demonstrating that new biological technologies\, DNA\, proteins and live organisms can be used as an art medium. Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions\, articles and lectures. She is since 2005 artistic director of Ectopia – Experimental Art Laboratory and from 2009 director of Cultivamos Cultura – Association. \n\n\n\nMarta de Menezes’ work explores the possibilities modern biology offers to artists. She has been developing the use of biology and biotechnology as new art media\, conducting her practice in research laboratories that also are her art studios. She has been trying to not only portray the recent advances of biological sciences\, but to incorporate biological material into her art as a way to convey a discourse that is not possible with any other medium: using DNA\, proteins\, cells and bodies offer an opportunity to explore novel ways of representation and communication. In the artistic research and practice that Marta de Menezes has been developing over the last 20 years\, she experiments with living and pulsing material\, changing that material to express her concepts. \n\n\n\nThrough her art works she positions herself and the audience in a range of perspectives that allow different understanding of self through other\, through nature and our alternative selves. \n\n\n\nThe works to be discussed include de Menezes’ first seminal bioart project entitled “Nature?” (1998) that questions the definition of nature through a non-genetic manipulation of live butterfly wing patterns\, and her most recent projects that use the technology of CRISPR-cas9 to reengage with questions of identity as a species\, as animals\, as composites\, and multiples – and how we understand these concepts in relation to our future. The works discussed are a series called The origin of Species: Post evolution using CRISPR-Cas9 to silence a transgenic modification of corn\, creating a new variety simultaneously natural and genetically modified\, developed in collaboration with Mexican philosopher Maria Antonia Gonzalez Valeiro (UNAM-Mexico)\, with geneticist and immunologist Luis Teixeira (IGC-Portugal)\, Truly Natural – using genome editing of GMO organisms through CRISPR-Cas9 leading to removal of transgenes\, Immortality for Two– where the author and her collaborator (her partner)\, Luís Graça\, immortalize each other immune cells\, achieved by introducing cancer-inducing genes in the cells with a viral vector\, and the most recent project\, Anti-Marta: self and non-self\, looking at antibodies between parents\, in collaboration with her partner\, immunologist Luís Graça (UNICEL Group\, Intituto de Medicina Molecular – Portugal). For more information\, please visit  http: http://martademenezes.com/ \n\n\n\nNATURE Lab [North Troy Art Technology and Urban Research in Ecology] is the Sanctuary’s resident ecological education program. NATURE Lab promotes sustainability\, and urban research in ecology using art\, technology and science. Programming is open to novices and experts alike. We are currently in development of the NATURE Lab Urban Environmental Center\, a resource for community science. \n\n\n\nThe event is co-sponsored by the Vollmer Fries Lecture series\, the Arts Department and the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-with-marta-de-menezes/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:"How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance" with Author L. A. Kauffman
DESCRIPTION:In L.A. Kauffman’s new book\, How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance\, the mobilizing coordinator of the 2003-2004 Iraq War protests explains what makes today’s grassroots resistance different from past movements in America. \n\n\n\n\nWhen millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 Women’s Marches\, there was an unmistakable air of uprising\, a sense that these marches were launching a powerful new movement to resist a dangerous presidency. But the work that protests do often can’t be seen in the moment. It feels empowering to march\, and record numbers of Americans have joined anti-Trump demonstrations\, but when and why does marching matter? What exactly do protests do\, and how do they help movements win? \n\n\n\nIn this original and richly illustrated account\, organizer and journalist L.A. Kauffman delves into the history of America’s major demonstrations\, beginning with the legendary 1963 March on Washington\, to reveal the ways protests work and how their character has shifted over time. Using the signs that demonstrators carry as clues to how protests are organized\, Kauffman explores the nuanced relationship between the way movements are made and the impact they have. How to Read a Protest sheds new light on the catalytic power of collective action and the decentralized\, bottom-up\, women-led model for organizing that has transformed what movements look like and what they can accomplish. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nL.A. Kauffman has spent more than thirty-five years immersed in grassroots movements\, as a journalist\, historian\, organizer\, and strategist. Her writings on organizing and social movement history have been published in The Guardian\, The Nation\, The Progressive\, Mother Jones\, the Village Voice\, n+1\, The Baffler\, and many other outlets. \n\n\n\nKauffman was a central strategist of the two-year direct action campaign that saved more than 100 New York City community gardens from bulldozing in 1999; she masterminded the campaign’s most notorious action\, the release of 10\,000 crickets in One Police Plaza during a city land auction. \n\n\n\nKauffman was the mobilizing coordinator for the massive antiwar protests of 2003 and 2004\, which remain some of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history. More recently\, she was a key organizer of successful campaigns to save two iconic New York City public libraries from being demolished and replaced by luxury towers. She is currently involved in a range of organizing projects to oppose the Trump presidency. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a conversation with L.A. Kauffman on the importance of standing in solidarity in the fight to end oppression against minorities through protest!  \n\n\n\nADVANCED PRAISE FOR HOW TO READ A PROTEST \n\n\n\n“A seasoned activist shares her wisdom on the struggle for social change\, using political movements such as Black Lives Matter\, the Women’s March\, and the Bonus Army as examples.”—O\, The Oprah Magazine \n\n\n\n“Explores protesting as an act of faith . . . How to Read a Protest argues that the women’s marches of 2017 didn’t just help shape and fuel a moment—they actually created one.”—Masha Gessen The New Yorker \n\n\n\n“Kauffman’s new book offers critical historical analysis and strategic insights\, raising provocative and complex questions about the relationship between protests and movement building. Every organizer and social movement historian should read it.”—Barbara Ransby\, author of Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/how-to-read-a-protest-the-art-of-organizing-and-resistance-with-author-l-a-kauffman/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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