Oron Catts
oroncatts.bsky.social
Oron Catts
@oroncatts.bsky.social
UWA IAS 25th anniversary event - The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge airs nationally across Australia next week on ABC Radio National's Big Ideas.

8pm Wednesday 26 November, repeated midday Thursday 27 November

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
What are universities for today? The usefulness of "useless" knowledge - ABC listen
Are our universities facing an existential crisis by trying to be too many things? Places for learning, research, the production of new knowledge, the production of job-ready graduates, and profit-mak...
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Come to Yamaguchi on the the 17th to 19th of October. It will be interesting

www.ycam.jp/en/events/20...
Can we find a natureless solution?
“OpenLab” is a series of hybrid events that revolve around conferences as a core element, but also include exhibitions and workshops, giving visitors opportunities to familiarize with YCAM’s own resea...
www.ycam.jp
October 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
viad.co.za/bioart-desig...

If you are in Johannesburg (or online anywhere) on Tuesday the 26th, it may be of interest…I will be giving an inaugural Visiting Professor lecutre, titiled “Life is Not What it Used to Mean”, follow link to rsvp
Life is Not What it Used to Mean - VIAD
Imagining the New... as an ideological force of modernity, it is the black radical imagination which opens new possibilities for human life.
viad.co.za
August 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Join us for a public lecture by Luis Campos, Baker College Chair for the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Rice University, as he reflects on the 50th anniversary of the Asilomar DNA conference and its relevance to the future of biotechnology.

19 June | 6pm | UWA
tinyurl.com/35ymb6r2
May 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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PUBLIC TALK
Testimony to the Atom Bomb – A Survivor Speaks
In 1945 Teruko Yahata was 8 when she was exposed to an atomic bomb at her home in #Hiroshima.
She has since devoted herself to sharing her experience, to aid understanding #NeverAgain
12 May, 4–5pm | Fox Lecture Hall
tinyurl.com/3ps8tkv8
May 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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ARTIST TALK
Join Fiona Foley at the UWA School of Design for a special artist talk next week.
Fiona is a Badtjala woman who works at the intersections of law, history, Indigenous Knowledges and creative research.

When: 9 April, 12noon-1pm
Where: UWA ALVA Lecture Room G22
April 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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IAS MASTERCLASS
Join us on Monday 7th April for a Masterclass with writer and poet Sara M. Saleh

10am -12.30pm
🖋️REGISTER tinyurl.com/43w66vce

Sara Saleh is an award-winning writer, poet & human rights lawyer. Her poems, short stories & essays have been widely published in English and Arabic
April 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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www.pomconference.org/pom-perth-20...

Few more days extended - new Deadline 3rd April 2025 (AWST midnight) - also online presentations are possible under certain conditions
POM Perth 2025 - Synthetic Sentience
The University Of Western Australia - July 16-18, 2025
www.pomconference.org
March 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Artists Oron Catts (@oroncatts.bsky.social) and Dr. Ionat Zurr have been working with biological tissue as their art medium for the last 30 years—their projects ask "how will new knowledge about life change the concept of life itself?"

Watch the full video: youtu.be/RtpJ_jZSmOM?...
Art and Science: The Use of Life (Becoming Artsy S4 E4)
YouTube video by Getty Museum
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March 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Fantastic conference in July! Submit a short abstract - extended deadline until 29th March.
Hope to see you in Perth with @oroncatts.bsky.social and get updates on Symbiotica, see Alvin Lucier (or part of him) performing, discuss bio-computers,....
POM Perth 2025 - Synthetic Sentience
The University Of Western Australia - July 16-18, 2025
www.pomconference.org
March 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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The 5th Politics of the Machines Conference : Synthetic Sentience
Call for Abstract
Extended Deadline 29th March 2025

The POM-conference will explore the evolving politics of sentience across a wide array of fields.

www.pomconference.org/pom-perth-20...
POM Perth 2025 - Synthetic Sentience
The University Of Western Australia - July 16-18, 2025
www.pomconference.org
March 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Just putting it here, if you’re interested:

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Tissues, Cultures, Art
This book explores the authors' artistic and scholarly explorations of humans’ changing relations to life, both as material and as a concept.
link.springer.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Two films dealing with our 3SDC projects are finalist at the 2024 WA Screen Culture Awards:

3SDC to the Power of 4 Screens -
Alternative Content

Sunlight: YES- Feature Documentary / Non Fiction

wascreencultureawards.com.au/2024-nominees/
2024 Nominees - WA Screen Culture Awards
Discover the nominees of the 2024 WA Screen Culture Awards! All created and made by Western Australia’s magnificent film industry.  INNOVATION AWARDS NOMINEES Narrative Feature Film with budget under ...
wascreencultureawards.com.au
December 1, 2024 at 1:32 AM