SymbioticA Research Group (Perth, Australia)
and The Potter Lab (Atlanta, USA)
MEART – The Semi-Living Artist (originally known as
Fish and Chips) is a collaboration between Guy Ben-Ary, Phil Gamblen, Ian Sweetman, Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr, Dr. Stuart Bunt
(SARG), Dr. Steve Potter, Douglas Bakkum, Tom DeMarse, Radhika Madhavan, and Peter Passaro
(The Potter Lab). The project was demonstrated for the first time at Ars Electronica International Festival
(Linz, 2000) and was widely covered by the press. MEART was presented at various contemporary art exhibitions and festivals, including
Biofeel (BEAP, PICA, Perth, 2002),
ArtBots (Eyebeam Gallery, New York, 2003),
Challenges for a Ubiquitous Identity (Ciber@RT, Bilbao, 2004),
Australian Culture Now (ACMI, Melbourne, 2004),
Art Digital-2004 (1st MBCA, M’ARS Gallery, Moscow, 2005),
Artrage Festival (Black Box Gallery, Perth, 2005) and
Strange Attractors: Charm between art and science (The Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, 2006).
The SymbioticA Research Group
(SARG) is a collaboration begun in 2000 between artists, scientists, computer programmers and technologists at SymbioticA – The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia
(Perth). SARG explores through a research and development project aspects of creativity and artistry in the age of biological technologies.
The Potter Lab is a research group that was established in 1999
(Los Angeles, USA). It is directed by Dr. Steve Potter. It operates in the Neuroengineering Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology
(Atlanta, USA). The Potter Lab applies multi-electrode array culture dishes, 2-photon time-lapse microscopy, and high-speed imaging of neural activity to study dissociated cultures of mammalian neurons. They are especially interested in distributed activity patterns and information processing of these cultured networks.
Paula Gaetano Adi (AR) /
James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau (GB) /
Brandon Ballengee (US) /
Laura Beloff (FI) /
BioKino Group: Tanya Visosevic and Guy Ben-Ary (AU) /
David Bowen (US) /
Adrian David Cheok (SG) /
Carlos Corpa and Ana Garcia-Serrano (ES) /
Critical Art Ensemble (US) /
Joe Davis (US) /
Marta de Menezes (PT) /
Louis-Philippe Demers (CA) /
Erwin Driessens and Maria Verstappen (NL) /
Tagny Duff (CA) /
Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha (NL) /
Julie Freeman (GB) /
George Gessert (US) /
Ken Goldberg (US) /
Isa Gordon (US) /
Andy Gracie (GB) /
Paul Granjon (FR) /
Mateusz Herczka (SE) /
Floris Kaayk (NL) /
Verena Kaminiarz (CA/DE) /
Leonel Moura (PT) /
Orlan (FR) /
Plancton Art Studio: Mauro Annunziato and Piero Pierucci (IT) /
Nicolas Reeves (CA) /
Julia Reodica (US) /
Ken Rinaldo (US) /
Marcel.li Antunez Roca (ES) /
Kathleen Rogers (GB) /
Philip Ross (US) /
SymbioticA Research Group (AU) and The Potter Lab (US) /
Stelarc (AU) /
The Tissue Culture & Art Project (TC&A): Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (AU) /
Paul Thomas (AU) /
Bill Vorn, Emma Howes and Jonathan Villeneuve (CA) /
Natasha Vita-More (US) /
Adam Zaretsky (US)
