Dr. Adam Zaretsky Artist / Lecturer / Teacher / Art and Science Researcher
Art and Science : Art as Research : Bio-Art : Video: New Media : Performance Eco-Art : Art for Non-Humans : Tissue Culture : Transgenics : Embryology : Bioinformatics Art and Technology : Web/Interactivity : Digital Audio : Digital Imaging : Video Compositing Contemporary Critical and Cultural Theory, Visual/Material Culture
POB 659 Woodstock NY 12498 USA Phone: 1-845-663-3357 E-Mail: [email protected] general email: [email protected]
Education
Ph.D. Integrated Electronic Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Earned Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Arts Practice / Electronic Arts, 2012
Research Affiliate Laboratory for Industrial Microbiology and Fermentation, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Primary Investigator Arnold Demain, Ph.D. 1999-2001
M.F.A. Art and Technology, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1999
B.F.A. Art Studio, University of California at Davis, 1995
Teaching Experience
Professional Lecturer, Marist College, Media Arts, School of Communication and the Arts, Fall 2014 – Present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Marist College, Media Arts, School of Communication and the Arts, Fall 2013 - 2014
Visiting Adjunct Professor, New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Tisch School of the Arts, DIY-IGM Art: Intentional Genetically Modified Human Germline Arts, Fall 2013
Kraus Visiting Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, DIY-IGM Art: Intentional Genetically Modified Human Germline Arts, Spring 2012University, DIY-IGM Art: Intentional Genetically Modified Human Germline Arts, Spring 2012
Head of School, The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd. (VASTAL), The Waag Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008-2009
Guest Performance Teacher, The Das Arts Foundation (Stichting DasArts), Block 28, Renting the Shade of a Tree, Mentors - Dirk Verstockt and Ricky Seabra, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008
Spring Visiting Professor for Vivoarts: Art and Biology Honors Course, The Arts and Genomics Centre, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands 2007
Adjunct Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Integrated Electronic Arts Coursework: Web, Imaging, Interactivity, Video, Vivoarts: Art and Biology Studio, Animal Enrichment Arts with Kathy High 2004-2006 Adam Zaretsky Page 2
Clinical Associate Professor, VivoArts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Integrated Electronic Arts Coursework: Web, Imaging, Interactivity, Video, Vivoarts: Art and Biology Studio, Animal Enrichment Arts 2002-2004
VivoArts Professor, Department of Art and Architecture, University of Western Australia, School of Fine Arts, Vivoarts: Art and Biology Studio with Oron Catts as well as an Honorary Visiting Research in the Department of Human Anatomy as a part of SymbioticA,
Visiting Artist and Associate Professor, CIA, Conceptual Information Arts, Art Department, San Francisco State University. Teaching three classes: Art and Biology Studio, Intro to Art and Technology and New Communication technologies (WWW). Fall Semester 2001.
Publications
Axioms on Art and Gene Action: Pathways to Expression, Chapter 30, Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture, Ed. Meredith Tromble and Charissa, 2016
OOPS: Object Oriented Psychopathia Sexualis: Gendering Methods of Transgenesis and the Material Vitalist Aesthetics of Bioart, Chapter 6, Object Oriented Ontology and Feminism Edited by Katharine Behar for University of Minnesota Press, 2016 Zaretsky, A, iGMO: Inherited Genetic Modification Orgiastics, Institutional Critique to Hospitality: Bioart Practices. A critical Anthology. Edited Assimina Kaniari, art history and theory series, awaiting publication Jan. 2017
Adam Zaretsky. “Animal Enrichment and the The VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd.” Inflexions 7, “Animating Biophilosophy” (March 2014). 218-245. www.inflexions.org, http://www.inflexions.org/n7_zaretsky.html With Video and Images: http://www.inflexions.org/n7_zaretsky_images.html
"Viva Vivo! Living Art Is Dead”, META-LIFE: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, ALife and the Arts, A Leonardo-MIT Press e-book edited by Annick Bureaud, Roger Malina and Louise Whiteley, pg. 324-328, 2014
BioSolar Cells: Making a Field for Interpretation Two Year Report and Proposal for Future Research, by Zaretsky, Adam, Ph.D., 126 pages; presented as a part of Ja Natuurlijk, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (GEM), den Hague, Netherlands, EU, 2013, http://www.biosolarcells.nl/onderzoek/maatschappelijke-aspecten/artist-in-lab-making-a- field-of-interpretation-for-biosolar-cells.html
Dissertation, VASTAL: The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics, Ltd. by Zaretsky, Adam, Ph.D., RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, 2012, 203 pages;
NA/SA (New Art/Science Affinities), Published by: Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University + CMU STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, ed. Régine Debatty and others, pg. 98, 2011 Adam Zaretsky Page 3
La Mutation Aleatoire N’est Pas Un Mal, Art et Activisme, Inter, Art Actuel, pg. 62-63, 2011
GOF®P: The GloFish® Freedom and Reconciliation Project Adam Zaretsky, TDR: The Drama Review Provocation 54:4 (T208) Winter 2010. New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pg. 2-3
Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age", Edited by Dmitry Bulatov, book contains two DVDs, pg. 112-113 plus 11 min. video documentary, NCCA, Kaliningrad, 2009. ISBN: 978-5-94620-054-7
Imagining Science: Art, Science and Social Change, Ed. Sean and Timothy Caufield, “Birdland” pg. 15-18, University of Alberta Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-88864-508-1
Art in the Biotech Era, edited by Melentie Pandilovski., “pFARM” and “Recombinant I- Ching Collective”, Adelaide Australia : Experimental Art Foundation, 2008 pg. 114-118 164-165 ISBN 0949836524
Birdland e Balde de Facs (Birdland and FACS Bucket), Published: Nada Journal, Novembro, Nº 10. Portugal, 2007
Transient Creatures (Catalogue), Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China 2008
The Bioart Initiative, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute Arts Department with the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies(CBIS), RPI, Troy, NY, USA 2008.
Kac, Eduardo. Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond. “Vivoarts” Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2007 pg. 267-276.
The Mutagenic Arts (Feature) and Bioart in Question (Interview), Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal, Electronic Magazine #23: BioArt (in French and English) 2006
The Workhorse Zoo Bioethics Quiz, (in Russian and French) Biomediale. Contemporary Society and Genomic Culture, The National Centre for Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad, Russia 2004
Viva Vivo!, Leonardo, Vol. 37, #1, pp. 90-92, 2004
The Workhorse Zoo Bioethics Quiz, The Aesthetics of Care, Biennial Electronic Art Perth, 2004
Endosymbiotic Formation of Organelles: The Spirochetal Case, Speed: Online Magazine of Technology, Media and Society 1997
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Research Experience
Invited guest of The National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine's International Summit on Human Gene Editing: A Global Discussion, Asked questions pertaining to my research which are in the video archive and on the record of the government transcript, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, December 1-3, 2015, http://nationalacademies.org/gene-editing/index.htm
Increasing Photosynthesis, BioSolar Cells, Wageningen, NL, 2011
Audited - Introduction to Experimental Biology 7.02 Covering Protein Biochemistry, Development, GFP E. Coli Protocols, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall, 2000
Introduction to Genetics, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall, 1998
Medical Entomology, University of California at Davis, Andy McClelend, Phd.1991
Experience
Widely traveled and capable cultural immersive, participatory observer/ethnographer and farmer: cocoa, rubber, organic and subsistence: Central America, Asia, South East Asia, Eastern and Western Europe. (Interested in El Salvador, Guatemala, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Serbia and Romania.)
Exhibitions
Emergent Ecologies Art Exhibit, Curated by Eben Kirksey, Grace Glovier, Cody Kohn, Kayli Marshall, Greg Umali, and Alexandra Palocz, Butler College, Studio '34 Café, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, 29th - March 30th, 2016
Group Exhibition, i / Material - Exposição de Arte Experimental, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Largo da Academia Nacional de Belas-Artes, 1249-058 Lisbon, Portugal, November 10, 2015 – November 27, 2015 Experiments in Biolistics: mutaFelch- - Methods of Transgenesis: Genegun (Biolistics), Queer New York International Arts Festival and Grace Exhibition Space, http://www.grace-exhibition- space.com/performance.php?event_id=472, 2014 and Kapelica Gallery, Ljublian, Slovenia, EU, http://allevents.in/ljubljana/dr-adam-zaretsky-2211-demonstracija-projekta-2411- performans/399907086828022 , 2014 Methods of Transgenesis: Genegun (Biolistics): Moss, Biopolitical Tactics, MultiSpecies Salon, www.multispecies-salon.org, Babycastles Gallery + Interspace, Manhattan, NY, 2014 Methods of Transgenesis: Genegun (Biolistics): Worms, Gorleaus Laboratory, Leiden University, 2014 FIST.SAVE.MOP.BAIT (Forced Interspecies Symbiosis Transgenic Solar Animal Vegetable Environmental Microinjection Organismic Personality Behavioral Audio Integrity Test) Ja Adam Zaretsky Page 5
Natuurlijk, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (GEM), Ine Gevers curator, den Hague, Netherlands, EU, 2013, www.ja-natuurlijk.com
Heads, Shoulders, Genes & Toes, Professor Judith Rushin, Guest Curator, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, 2013
VASTAL, Workhorse Zoo, part of the project The Worldly House. An archive inspired by Donna Haraway's writings on multi-species co-evolution, (Ein Archiv inspiriert von Donna Haraways Schriften über Multispezies- Koevolution) compiled and presented by Tue Greenfort in dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, 2012
Mustard Seeds: Cross Mutagenesis in the Errorarium, installation and lecture, Hortus Botanicus, Leiden, Netherlands, 2012, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbJqzTz-XD4
Delivered, Sealed in the Vastal Virginarium, Uncommitted Crime, How art and biotech affects us, Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, Den Haag, 2012, Curated by Arthur Crucq, Laura Mudde, Erik-Jan Ligtvoet. 2012.
Solar Zebrafish and Errorarium (with Mason Juday and Casper Electronics), Hands on multispecies microinjection and public photosynthetic personality data tabulation, Llowlab, Lowlands Festival, Biddinghuizen, 2012. Supported by Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), The Arts and Genomics Centre, Leiden University, Waag Society and BioSolar Cells.
VASTAL, Solo Show, Verbeke Gallery, Antwerp Belgium (EU), 2011-2012
G®FRP: The GloFish® Freedom and Reconciliation Project, Multispecies: Swarm, in New Orleans & Certified Copy at the Verbeke Foundation, Belgium 2010
Genegun/Shotgun and Dangerous Liasons, Imagining Science Exhibition, Art Gallery of Alberta, 2008-2009 & Festival Key of Life, Leiden NL 2009 & Wunderkammer, Verbeke Foundation 2010 & Alter Nature: We Can, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium 2010
Big Cat Toys, Detourned Menu, The Lab San Francisco, CA 2006
Exhibition and Lecture, Dias de Bioart, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain, A Project by Capsula, 2007
Détourned Menu: Food in the Form of Activism, GLACK with Tanya Visosevic, The Lab, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2006
Eating: Exploring What How and Why We Eat, Salina Art Center, Salina KS 2005
Art et Biotechnologies, Conference performance lecture and DVD Anthology (1st and 2nd edition) Louise Poissant, Ernestine Daubner Edts. Presses de L’Université du Québec, 2003
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Curator: Singularity Systems, DOME 5: Flesh Pod, Version>03 | Technotopia vs. Technopocalypse, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, 2003
The Pig Wings Project by the Tissue Culture & Art Project in collaboration with Adam Zaretsky, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 2003
Workhorse Zoo Bioethics Quiz Documents L'art Biotech exposition, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes France, 2003
The Pineal Extendor, SEAFair, Skopje Electronic Arts Fair, Consciousness and New Technologies, Skopje Macedonia 2003
MMMM… , Biofeel, Biennial of Electronic Arts Perth, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art 2002
Workhorse Zoo, Unmediated Vision, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas 2001
MicroSushi, Society and Genomic Culture, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Macedonia 2001
Screenings
Dangerous Liasons, Leiden University Embryology Arts Honors Class in collaboration with Jeanette Groenendaal and Zoot Derks and the Participating Students of Vivoarts 2007, The Arts and Genomics Centre, Leiden University shown at:
Imagining Science Exhibition, Art Gallery of Alberta, 2008-2009
Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age, IX MediaForum 2008, Part of the XXX Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad branch, Russia). Curator Dmitry Bulatov. August 2008
Transient Creatures, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China 2008
Walls No Walls, Tijdelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands, Curated by Patricia de Ruijter 2008
2007 MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Science, Enter3, CIANT, Prague, Czech Republic.
PCB-HB CH11, Living Culture Screening, Eyebeam, 2006
Ovarium, First Prize, Bienal Ibizagráfic, 2006 Exerpts Traveling in: Selfportraits, VideoChannel Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburg, 2005 Biennale of Video & New Media Santiago/Chile 2005 Adam Zaretsky Page 7
Videologia Festival Volgograd/Russia in Collaboration with Barbara Groves, 2005 New Media Caucus/CAA video, Lisa Dorin, Curator, 2005
GLACK: This video was made while conducting research at SymbioticA, the School of Anatomy and Human Biology's Art & Science Collaborative Lab in the University of Western Australia, Perth. In CTEC- Clinical Training and Education Centre within The Hill International Medical & Surgical Workshop, Collaboration with Tanja Visosevic
Transient Creatures, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China, 2008
In the Presence of the Body 1+2, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS), RPI, Troy, NY, USA 2006
Art of the Biotech Era, The EAF, Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts, Australia 2004
Bioart Worshops
Microsushi, A workshop by Marta de Menezes and Adam Zaretsky, Design Fiction, MIT Media Lab, 2016
Public EcoArt Seed Sculpting Lab, Curator Jen Zakin, with Saugerties boys and girls club, The Long Spoon Collective, A Traditional Andean Offering Ceremony created by Adolfo Ibanez Ayerve, Chicken Dancing with Linda Mary Montano and more, Re:Seed Saugerties, 204 Washington Ave, Saugerties NY, August 13th, 2016, supported by Arts Mid Hudson, http://www.reseedsaugerties.com/seedsculptinglab/
Workshop: DIY Hybrid DNA Isolation: How to Extract DNA from Anything Living, Former Asylum Goussis Building, Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science Conference, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, May 2016
DIY Hybrid DNA Isolation & Microinjection Arts, A Skill - Share Lab, Organizer: Nurit Bar-Shai, Genspace, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
Tattoo Traits Led by Adam Zaretsky as a part of Laboratory Life, curated by Andy Gracie, Collaborators: Zack Denfield, Helen Bullard, Simon Hall, Microwave Festival, Hong Kong, China, 2011, Funded by The Wellcome Trust, 2011, http://extendedart.scm.cityu.edu.hk/?critique=dna-tattoo
Non-Human Enrichment Art, 100 Days of Manifestation, No Border Cafe, Bblackboxx, Basel, 2011
Senior Artist, BioARTCAMP: a Rocky Mountain Expedition in Art and Biology, Banff Centre / Banff National Park, Banff, Canada, 2011.
Seed Bombing Lab, Hybrid DNA Isolation Lab, (De)Mystified Bioinformatics Lab, Tissue Culture Scupture Lab, Art for Non-humans Lab and Body Alterity Lab, The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd. (VASTAL), The Waag Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008-2009 Adam Zaretsky Page 8
Unsealed: Sterile Field Inter-Public Body Art Performances, Glovebox Design: Adam Zaretsky and Mason Juday, Performance Artists Curated by Adam Zaretsky and Marije Jannsen, Performance artists: Kira O’Reilly, WARBEAR, Jeanette Groenendaal, Zoot Derks, Boryana Rossa, Oleg Mavromatti, Sarah Hamilton, Jennifer Willet, Adam Zaretsky, bionihil and giuliana videopirate, Theatrum Anatomicum at the Waag and Bouwkeet van Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2009
Seed Bombing Lab, Hybrid DNA Isolation Lab, Art for Non-humans Lab and Body Alterity Lab, The Das Arts Foundation (Stichting DasArts), Block 28, Renting the Shade of a Tree, Mentors - Dirk Verstockt and Ricky Seabra, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008
Hybrid DNA Isolation workshop:
Herbologies / Foraging Networks seminar & workshops, Pixelache, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, 2010
13th International Festival of Performance Ex Teresa Arte Actual, “Controlled Accidents” (Accidentes Controlados) Mexico City, Mexico, Curated Edith Medina, 2008
Transient Creatures, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China 2008
The Aesthetics of Life, University of Exeter, England, May 2008
UCLA Art | Science center, Los Angeles CA, USA 2008 http://artsci.ucla.edu
The University Of Leiden, Leiden, Holland, The Art and Genomics Centre and Gorleaus Laboratory, As a part of an Honors Class "BioArt: Contemporary Art and the Life Sciences" Taught by Jennifer Willet. 2008
Dias de Bioart, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain, A Project by Capsula 2007
Hybrid DNA Isolation, EcoArt and Enrichment for Non-humans Workshops, Eyebeam, Summer School, 2006
Trangenic Bacteria Painting: a two-day workshop on behalf of The Arts & Genomics Centre at Leiden University's Faculty of Science, 2006
Hybrid DNA Isolation Lab for Artists w/ Oron Catts, Rules of Engagement York, England and (without Oron Catts) Kloone & at the international workshop on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects of Genomics, International School for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam with The Arts and Genomic Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2005
Anatomy for Artists: Aesthetic Cow Eye Dissection Lab Co-Taught/Co-presented with Julia Reodica, MassArt, Boston MA 2003 Adam Zaretsky Page 9
Artist’s Lectures
Design Fiction, MIT Media Lab, Hosted by Mary Maggic, 2016:
TransJohn, I'm Only Dancing, lecture.
Microsushi, A workshop by Marta de Menezes and Adam Zaretsky.
Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science Conference, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, May 2016:
BioQueering Methods of Transgenesis, Panel, Statements in Hybrid Art: Chair: Anna Hatziyiannaki, Art Historian,
iGMO, Solo Exhibition, Parallel Exhibition with Stelarc, Municipal Gallery of Corfu,
Chair, panel: Art & Biology, Fungi decay as an art form, Patricia Noronha, ITQB New University of Lisbon, Portugal, Doing the Taboo: Examining Affect and Participation in Bioart, Marie Mart Roijackers, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Bioart under the lens of a Kantian Microscope, Jessica Donato, Goldsmiths College, UK,
Artistic and Scientific Advisory Board.
After Biopolitics, SLSA, Houston Texas, 2015, http://litsciarts.org/:
BioQueering Methods of Transgenesis, Panel: Object-Oriented Feminism – Dead or Alive 2: Out of Body Chair: Katherine Behar, Baruch College,
Errorarias: Concert for Bipolar Flowers, Panel: Performative Experiments in Multispecies Contact Zones (III): Plant Thinking Chairs: Dehlia Hannah, Arizona State University and Eben Kirksey, University of New South Wales
Obesity and the Bolus of the Beyond: A Sociopolitical Reading of Metabolic Syndrome, Panel: The Biopolitics of Art and Criticism Chair: Sean Matharoo, University of California, Riverside
Zaretsky, A, Chair, Panel, Felt Bioart: Flesh, Difference, Affect Disability Studies as a Gateway Towards Understanding Transgenic Transhumanism Chair, Adam Zaretsky, Marist College Dementia: Art and Personhood Melissa Liu, University of Washington, Seattle Human Embodiment & Beyond Kira deCoudres, Hampshire College, Transgenic and Differently Abled: Disability Studies for Genetically Modified Humans Adam Zaretsky, Marist College, http://litsciarts.org/slsa15/wp- content/uploads/2015/09/SLSA-Conference-Program-Public-Draft-Revised-Nov- 9FINAL.pdf
Augmentation without Boundaries, 14th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR2015), Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 2015: Adam Zaretsky Page 10
Oocyte Aesthetic, Human Design and Mission Creep, exhibited video, DIY Embryology (with Jonathan Minard), Augmentation without Boundaries, 14th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR2015), Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 2015 MASH'D Workshop at the Fukuoka City Museum: Mixed Reality Food Art DNA: Hybrid DNA Isolation and Augmentation Bioart Lab, Augmentation without Boundaries, 14th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR2015), Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 2015 Panel discussion. Matters of Embodiment. Moderator: Julian Stadon. Participants: Julian Oliver, Nick Briz, Dewey-Hagborg, César Escudero. -ISMAR2015. Panel discussion. Bodies Embodiment and Data Aesthetics. Participants: Carl Smith, Joelle Bitton, Nick Briz, Heather Dewey Hagborg, Adam Zaretsky, Chris Henshke, , Augmentation without Boundaries, 14th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR2015), Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 2015 Exhibition Website: http://ismar2015.vgtc.org/ismar/2015/info/call- participation/data-body-artifact/ , http://marart.org/#/databodyasartifact
Oocyte Aesthetic, Human Design and Mission Creep, Neolife, SLSA 2015 Conference, Perth Australia 1-3 Oct 2015
Bioethics in Action, Visiting Scholar presentation, Princeton University, Class of Eben Kirksey, Environmental Art: Thinking, Making, Dreaming, Henry David Thoreau Freshman Seminar in Environmental Studies, Spring 2016
Multispecies Salon: Art + Life, Grace Exhibition Space, The Linda Mary Montano Art/Life Institute, Kingston NY, Adam Zaretsky, Boryana Rossa, Eben Kirksey, Matthew Gioia, Alison Beth Levy, Curated Adam Zaretsky and Grace Exhibition Space, Nov. 7, 2015,
Obesity and the Bolus of the Beyond: A Sociopolitical Reading of Metabolic Syndrome, Honors Course Lecture, Lieden University Medical Center (LUMC), 2014 Responsible Innovation (LDE), Living Lab, Leiden University in Den Hague, 2014
NADL Inc. : Ecology, Food Science, Biology, Animal Behavior and the Human Germline, Centre for the Arts in Society, Leiden University, 2014
Reading Through Embryologist’s Eyes, Metamorphoses of corporeality: Art-Body- Technology, Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University (AVARTS), Corfu, Greece, 16th - 17th May 2014
Bipolar Flower and contributing to the roundtable - Object-Oriented Feminism Roundtable: The Fluid Future of OOF (Roundtable), Fluid, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Soutern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 2014
Germline Art, Pratt Institute, NYC, Dept of Humanities/Media Studies, 2013
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Art=Life: Transfer Festival, Slovenia, 2013
DIY-IGM :: Germline Art, Dept of Humanities/Media Studies, Pratt Institute, 2013
FIST.SAVE.MOP.BAIT (Forced Interspecies Symbiosis Transgenic Solar Animal Vegetable Environmental Microinjection Organismic Personality Behavioral Audio Integrity Test), Postnatural, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2013
Finissage Yes Naturally with debate on public access to GMOs, Keynote: Adam Zaretsky, with Herman van Bekkem (Greenpeace), Lucas Evers (Waag Society), Dirk de Jong (Biobased Economy), Ton Matton (artist), Pieter van Bohemen (DIY biology), Per Staugaard (Biosafety advisor), David Louwrier (Phd), Ine Gevers, Laura Mudde. Chair: Robert Zwijnenberg, Curated by Ine Gevers and Laura Mudde, Platform The Commons, The Hague, 2013
Superplants: Towards a sustainable future?, symposium, Keynote: Dr. Jeremy Harbinson, with Peter Fend, Adam Zaretsky, Dirk Stemerding et.al., Curated by Ine Gevers and Laura Mudde, Museon, The Hague, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LrJ2UBxM6E
ART=LIFE Ecology, Food Science, Biology Animal Behavior and the Human Germline, Joint Special Seminar, School of Creative Media (SCM) and Department of Biology and Chemistry (BCH), City University Hong Kong and Genspace, Brooklyn NY, 2013
Mutate or Die, Confronting the Bacterial Sublime, Mutamorphosis, Tibute to Uncertainty, Prague, Czech Republic, 2012
Adam Zaretsky: Mutate or Die, Trust Me, I’m an Artist: Towards an Ethics of Art/Science Collaboration, Curated Anna Dmitriu, 2011
Art and Gene Action: Pathways to Expression:
Kresge Theatre, Carnegie Mellon University 2011
Transhumanism and Design Conference at Parsons New School of Design, Humanity+ International, New York City 2011
Alter Nature, Z33, Hasselt (BE) 2011
Visceral, Science Gallery, Dublin (IR), 2011
Aesthetic Problems in Solar Engineering, Grand opening BioSolar Cells & AlgaePARC, Hof van Wageningen, Wageningen (NL) 18.02.2011
Making a field of interpretation for Biosolar Cells, Theatrum Anatomicum, Studiolab, Waag Society in collaboration with Leiden University, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and gr Cells, Amsterdam (NL) 2011
1) Review Rob Mitchell’s Bioart and the Vitality of Media, 2) Humane Sacrifice, An Adam Zaretsky Page 12
Oxymoron?, 3) Death Issues in Vivoarts Practice and Life Studies Theory, 4) Object- Oriented Feminism 2: "Parts” - Object-Oriented Bioethics: gene application technology, trans-normative bioethics and posthuman(e) sacrifice of Transgenic Devices, SLSA, Indianapolis, 2010
Solar Zebrafish, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2010
Anatomy on the Range: Enhancement & Anti-Aesthetics in Human Genetic Alterity, Interactive Screen 1.0 Beautiful Lives, Banff New Media Centre, Canada 2010
Solar Zebrafish: Green Summer, Verbeke Foundation, Belgium, 2010
What Can Be Done For/With a Body?, The Makers, Interactive Screen 0.9, Banff New Media Institute 2009
Mutagenic Arts, BioArt: Contemporary Art and the Life Sciences in Jennifer Willet’s Incubator, School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor, 2009
Does Cloned Animal Safety take into account the effect of Aesthetics on the long-term Ecological effects of Food Chain Design?, Eye of the Storm, Arts Catalyst, Tate Museum, London UK, 2009
On the Mutagenic Arts, Art and Activism Series, UCLA Art | Science center, Los Angeles CA, USA, http://artsci.ucla.edu
Media Art in the Age of Transgenics, Cloning and Genomics, Panel at the New Museum, NY, Discussion of bio-art with artists Caitlin Berrigan, Adam Zaretsky, Brandon Ballengee and Kathy High, 2008
Transient Creatures, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China 2008
In the Presence of the Body 1+2, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS), RPI, Troy, NY, USA 2006
Birdland: Avian Developmental Embryology Arts Project, The Aesthetics of Life, University of Exeter, England, Chair: Marie-Pier Boucher, May 2008
SLSA Conference: New York University, Panel Chair and Presenter, Art Uses Biomatter Zaretsky, Ellis, Taylor 2007
Imagining Science Workshop, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, 2007
Exhibition Lecture and Bioart Workshop: Hybrid DNA Isolation Lab, Dias de Bioart, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain, A Project by Capsula 2007
Poker Club: Future Body, Adam Zaretsky and Régine Debatty, Six Cities Design Festival programme Edinburgh, Scotland 2007
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MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Science, Enter3, International Festival for Art, Science, and New Technologies, CIANT, Prague, Czech Republic 2007
Double Blind, Art and Biology Collaboration, Theorising Collaborations, (chair Zaretsky) Close Encounters, SLSA, 2006
Double Blind, Rules of Engagement - Science and Art Conference, University of York, UK, 2005
The Sociobiology of Netporn, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, NL 2005
On Mutaphobia, presented: @ 16 Beaver, Mutants @ Mass Moca, The Arts and Genomic Centre @ University of Amsterdam, DANM Colloquium @ UCSC 2005 and SLSA NYC 2006 pFARM, Musee D'art Contemporain De Montreal, Art & Biotechnologies Colloquium, Genetic Art / Hybrids, Montreal 2004
Viva Vivo! Living Art is Dead,The Slovenian Society for Aesthetics Ljubliana, Slovenia 2004
Rewilding the Americas from the Urban Out: Architectural Ecology for the Sustainable Urban Psyche, SubtleTechnologies Symposium, Toronto, Canada, 2003
Transhumanism from the Inside Out: Flesh Creatives and the Ethics of Body Design. Artists presenting work include Isa Gordon, Tara Mateik, Benjamin Bratton, Gallery Green and Adam Zaretsky, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, 2003
Anthrax and Architecture, Terrorism + Architecture, Fall Semester Symposium The Southern California Institute of Architecture, 2001
Posthuman Temptation, Eros and Mutagenesis:
Artists in Vivo panel, 4S: The Society for the Social Studies of Science Cambridge, Mass. 2001
Skopje Electronic Arts Fair, Society and Genomic Culture, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia2001
Arts Symposium, Art Studio and College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2001
Conceptual Information Arts, San Francisco State Universtity, 2001
Art and Technology Lecture Series, Renssalear Polytechnic Institute, I/Ear Studio Program 2001
Meow, Center for Advanced Technology, New York University, 2001 Adam Zaretsky Page 14
Art in the Age of Transgenics, Bio-Chotchkas and Better Mousetraps Panel, College Art Association, Chicago, 2001
Labs and Performance Lectures Online
Errorarias, Concert for Bipolar Flowers, Sylvius Lab, Leiden Institute of Biology, 2014 https://archive.org/details/Errorarias
Public microinjection Lab at Llowlabs Clear Channel Event 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE8YnjEB9mY&feature=related
Gm Zinc Fingers Art Plant Production 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0L5hQjJZ6o
Errorarium, Audio Visual Art Testing of engineered life 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1XIpbI_rk
Adam Zaretsky interview with Dr. Ir. Bert van der Zaal On whole genome reprogramming 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgvmvS0nEaQ
Public Speech on mutation and aesthetics with Artists and Scientists 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbJqzTz-XD4
DIY Embryology, Mellon Institute, Carnegie Mellon, 2013 http://www.deepspeedmedia.com/diy-embryology/
Documents, The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd. (VASTAL), The Waag Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008-2009: www.vimeo.com/vastal
What Can Be Done For/With a Body?, The Makers, Interactive Screen 0.9 and Interactive Screen 1.0 Beautiful Lives, Banff New Media Centre, Canada, 2010 Podcasts on iTunesU: http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/banffcentre.ca.1540604998.01540605 000
Retool Earth – Ehlrich Formula Commentary, Adam Zaretsky Live skype Speech, 2008: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1696202332207068678&ei=5I1OSYbeLI- YrALN8oT4Cw&q=adam+zaretsky
Dynamic Seeding Musical Bioreactor by Tissue Culture & Art in collaboration with Adam Zaretsky. Music by Lindsay Vickery with Darren Moore. (April 05, 2008): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6_KfILCk4o 2008
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Dangerous Liasons, Leiden University Embryology Arts Honors Class in collaboration with Jeanette Groenendaal and Zoot Derks and the Participating Students of Vivoarts 2007, The Arts and Genomics Centre, Leiden University :
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mve5b8RW6_8 Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBKgimtgWuM Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgZ6o8FIeiE
Video Appearances for Documentary or Video Art
DIYsect, Mary Tsang and Ben Welmond, Chapter 3: "Fear of the Unknown", 2015, http://www.diysect.com, rough cut: https://vimeo.com/110360442 password: diysect
DIY Embryology, Jonathan Minard, Deepseed Media, 2012, http://vimeo.com/51410231
Blind Spot, actor in a feature film by Oleg Mavromati, Banya Starinna, Centre for Contemporary Art, Bulgaria, 2007, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc3Cidl1Ns0
Radio Appearances and Podcasts
From PRX’s Radiotopia, Nick van der Kolk’s Love and Radio features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. You’ve never heard anything like it before. New installments are added monthly. Interviewed by Britt Wray, New Media Science Journalist, http://loveandradio.org/
Leonardo "Creative Disturbance” Bioart - BioDesign - ALife, Interviewed by Yvan Tina,
Bioart Camp – Biologists, Artists, Philosophers and the Wilderness, A Britt Wray Podcast, The Tympanic Eclipse, Banff Centre, 2013 http://www.tympaniceclipse.org/2013/01/03/bioartcamp-biologist-artists-philosophers-and- the-wilderness/ A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 27 (Adam Zaretsky), Regine Debatty, ResonanceFM radio show and write up on We Make Money Not Art, 2013, http://we-make-money-not- art.com/archives/2013/04/ail-artists-in-laboratories-ep-22.php Colony Collapse Disorder Radio (CCD) #6 & 7 : Supercedure and Swarming Dedicated worker bee, EE Miller, 2008, colonycollapsedisorder.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/supersedure-swarming/
The Bio-Blurb Show w/ Suzanne Anker, wPS1 Art Radio, Edition #6: Artists in the Science Lab, 2005
Workhorse Zoo Bioethics Quiz, BEAP, The Aesthetics of Care? Symposium Online Lecture, UWA, Perth, Austrailia, 2002
Send in the Clones, To The Best of Our Knowledge, NPR 2001 Adam Zaretsky Page 16
Press, Online Review and Literary Mention
ON THE ROAD DOCUMENTING BIOARTISTS AND BIOHACKERS MEET THE DUO BEHIND DIYSECT, A WEB SERIES THAT EXPLORES THE POLITICS SURROUNDING A GROWING MOVEMENT By Daniel Grushkin Posted May 11, 2016, Popular Science. A Bonnier Corporation Company.
http://www.popsci.com/two-filmmakers-discuss-three-years-on-road-documenting- bioartists-and-biohackers
Opening the exhibition of Stelarc and Adam Zaretsky Written by Corfu Today Friday, the 20th May 2016 12:44 http://www.kerkyrasimera.gr/index.php/el-gr/topika/politismos/item/2232-egkainia- stin-ekthesi-ton-stelarc-kai-adam-zaretsky
Kiasma preserves hybrid DNA-extract new media "mashup" for over 6 years! 14 April 2016, Andrew Gryf Paterson & Ulla Taipale, 14.04.2016. http://www.pixelache.ac/posts/kiasma-preserves-hybrid-dna-extract-new-media- mashup-for-over-6-years
March 9, 2016, Who is Afraid of CRISPR Art?, By Eben Kirksey, Somatosphere, Science, Medicine, and Anthropology, A collaborative website covering the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry, psychology and bioethics http://somatosphere.net/2016/03/who-is-afraid-of-crispr-art.html
Guts to Embryology – The Intellectual Messiness of a Scholar in Pursuit Technoetic Arts, “Learning from Embryology: Situating Bioart in Complexism.” Blog review of DIY Embryology, http://www.sciartcenter.org/group-3/dave-charissa-week-16
International Summit on Human Gene Editing: missing voices, divergent views … What is the role of the artist? by Nicola Triscott (of Arts Catalyst) on December 9, 2015 https://nicolatriscott.org/2015/12/09/international-summit-on-human-gene-editing/
Trust Me, I'm an Artist, Towards an Ethics of Art and Science Collaboration - Anna Dumitriu, The book features projects by Adam Zaretsky, Neal White, Anna Dumitriu and Art Orienté objet, 2014 www.store.blurb.co.uk/ebooks/484484-trust-me-i-m-an-artist or www.itunes.apple.com/gb/book/id910464332
Bioethics™ : Life, Politics, Economics, Section: The Art of Life Between Speculation and Appreciation, Adam Zaretsky, The Workhorse Zoo Art and Bioethics Quiz, edited by Joanna Zylinska, Living Books about Life, Open Humanities Press, 2012, http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Bioethics%E2%84%A2
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A two-headed zebrafish. - Some personal observations on the relevance and urgency of collaborations between art, science and technology, Prof. dr. Robert Zwijnenberg, The Arts and Genomics Centre, 2011, http://moebiusjournal.org/bioart.html Rijk beraadt zich over genetisch aangepaste vis (Rich reflecting on genetically modified fish), deVerdieping Trouw, newspaper, 07/02/14, http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4492/Nederland/article/detail/3591885/2014/02/07/Rijk-beraadt- zich-over-genetisch-aangepaste-vis.dhtml
Difference on display:,diversity in art, science & society, Ine Gevers (Author), et al. NAi Publishers, NL, pg. 222-223, 2013 Dangerous Liaisons and other stories of transgenic pheasant embryology, We Make Money Not Art, Regine Debatty, 2009, http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/01/-yes- its-true-im.php
Day 1 at the VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics: Seed broadcasting workshop We Make Money Not Art: Regine Debatty, 2009 http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/05/vastal-vivoarts-school-for-tra.php
Tissue Culture Lab at the VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics (part 1) We Make Money Not Art, Regine Debatty, 2009 http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/09/vivoarts-school-for- transgenic.php
Tissue Culture Lab at the VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics (part 2) We Make Money Not Art, Regine Debatty, 2009 http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/09/-previously-image-of-the.php
Documentation of the Seedballing Ecoart Lab We Make Money Not Art, Regine Debatty, 2009 http://www.flickr.com/photos/nearnearfuture/sets/72157618588358421/
Bioethics in the age of new media, Joanna Zylinska, MIT press 2009, pg. 160-167
DNA in de keuken, Biokunstenaars over genetische manipulatie, Tracy Metz, NRC Handelsblad BV Sectie: Cultureel Supplement | Pagina: C08 10,07, 2009
Emily Voigt (fall/winter 2009). "The Art is Alive!". Isotope: A Journal of Literary Science and Nature Writing. http://www.emilyvoigt.com/isotope.html#content.
Believing the impossible, Stuart Kinmond, CMAJ • June 23, 2009; 180 (13). From the Fat of the Land: Alchemies, Ecologies, Attractions by Linda Weintraub, 2007 http://www.grandarts.com/exhibits/Fat-of-the-Land2.html
‘Ik wil weten wanneer een mens wildernis wordt’, Hester van Santen, NRC Handelsblad BV 05-04-2007
Where Cultures Get Culture, Jessica Pasko, Art News, October, pg. 60, 2007 Adam Zaretsky Page 18
Adam Zaretsky on Future Body, by Regine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art, 2007 http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2007/06/adam-zaretski--.php
Bio-artists bridge the gaps between arts and sciences, Jessica M. Pasko, Associated Press, 2006
Frankenart, By Jacqueline Keren, Metroland, vol. 29, # 37, 2006
The Artists in the Hazmat Suits, Randy Kennedy, New York Times 2005
Genetische Gemanipuleerde Kunst, Arjen Van Veelen, MARE, 2005
Bioartist Adam Zaretsky Sleeps with the Fishes, Wendy Wolfson, Profile, Red Herring, 2002
The Humperdinck Effect, Wendy Wolfson, Information Week, 2001
In Massachusetts, Science Gives New Life to Art, Pamela Ferdinand, The Washington Post, 2000
Science for Art’s Sake, Nature Magazine, Nature Vol 407, 12 October 2000, Pg. 668-670
Residencies
Sponsored Resident, The 2016 Scientific Delirium Madness Residency, a collaborative initiative of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and Djerassi Resident Artists Program (DRAP) http://www.djerassi.org/2016artists.html
Contemporary Artist Center, Troy NY 2008-2009
Etay Residency, Montreal, CA 2005
Contemporary Artist Center, North Adams MA 2005-2006
Awards, Fellowships and Grants
Awarded the John P. and Susan D. Diekman Fellowship, 2016 Scientific Delirium Madness Residency, a collaborative initiative of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and Djerassi Resident Artists Program (DRAP) Artist in Lab: Making a Field for Interpretation for BioSolar Cells, Supported by Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), The Arts and Genomics Centre, Leiden University, Waag Society and BioSolar Cells. 2010-2013, http://www.biosolarcells.nl/onderzoek/maatschappelijke-aspecten/artist-in-lab-making-a- field-of-interpretation-for-biosolar-cells.html
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Studiolab: Solar Zebrafish, collaboration of Waag Society, The Arts & Genomics Center (TAGC), Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (Innovatieregeling Cultuuruitingen of the Ministry of OCW) and TAGC/Leiden Institute of Chemistry, 2010- 2012
Honorable Mention, The Next Idea Voelstalpine Art and Technology Grant, Ars Electronic, Solar Zebrafish, Studiolab, 2010
SNS Reall Fonds and Mondriaan Stichting, Viva la Vivo, The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd. (VASTAL), The Waag Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008- 2009
pFARM, Experimental Television Center, Video Production Grant, 2005
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art Science and Technology, MMMM… and The Workhorse Zoo, 2001
In the Collection of
Orange Pheasant, King Willhelm-Alexander and the House of Orange, The Kingdom of the Netherlands Hybrid DNA Isolation Documents and Ephemeral Arts, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland