[-empyre-] Week Three: Amanda White and Špela Petrič (with Dimitrios Stamatis, and Jasmina Weiss)

[Patrick Keilty]

Thanks Alana for introducing your work last week. It raised some great
questions, which I hope we address as the discussion progresses. Week three
brings us two new guests, Špela Petrič and Amanda White, with Dimitrios
Stamatis, and Jasmina Weiss, who we introduced last week.

Looking forward to this week's discussion!

Špela Petrič (SI), BSc, MA, PhD, is a Slovenian new media artist and
scientific researcher currently based in Amsterdam, NL. Her artistic
practice combines natural sciences, new media and performance. While
working towards an egalitarian and critical discourse between the
professional and public spheres, she tries to envision artistic experiments
that produce questions relevant to anthropology, psychology, and
philosophy. She extends her artistic research with art/sci workshops
devoted to informing and sensitizing the interested public, particularly
younger generations. In particular, she is interested in all aspects of
anthropocentrism, the reconstruction and reappropriation of scientific
knowledge in the context of cultural phenomena, living systems in
connection to inanimate systems manifesting life-like properties, and
terRabiology, an ontological view of the evolution and terraformative
process on Earth. Her work has been shown at many festivals, exhibitions
and educational events in Slovenia and around the world (Touch Me Festival
(CRO), Pixxelpoint (IT), European Conference on Artificial Life (IT),
Playaround (TW), Harvard (ZDA), Ars Electronica (AT), National Center for
Biological Sciences (IN), HAIP (SI), Arscope (GER), Mutamorphosis (CZ),
Galleries de la Reine (BE)…).

Amanda White (CA) is a Toronto-based artist and a PhD student in Cultural
Studies at Queen’s University. Her current practice-led research is a body
of work investigating social and cultural imaginations of nature through a
program of research and collaborative, participatory and interdisciplinary
arts practices. With a particular interest in human-plant encounters and
relationships, she explores ideas around interspecies exchange,
permaculture, symbiosis, and the real vs. Imagined in nature. Recent
exhibitions and projects include: The Neighborhood Spaces Residency Program
(Windsor), Plug-In ICA (Winnipeg), ArtSci Salon (Toronto), the Ontario
Science Centre, Grow-Op -The Culture of Landscape (Toronto), Scotiabank
Nuit Blanche, and the thematic residency Food, Water, Life with Lucy and
Jorge Orta at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Amanda received an MFA from
the University of Windsor and a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and
Design. Further info: amandawhite.com


Patrick Keilty
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information
Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
University of Toronto
http://www.patrickkeilty.com/
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