【ICF2015】Oron Catts - “Not a necropolis, but a histopolis; before cities come alive”

Oron Catts
Director of SymbioticA, The University of Western Australia

Oron Catts is the Director of SymbioticA, The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia. As from 2016 he will also serve as a visiting faculty at the Royal College of Arts London, in the capacity of Professor of Constable Design.
He is an artist, designer, researcher and curator whose pioneering work with the Tissue Culture and Art Project which he established in 1996 is considered a leading biological art project. In 2000 he co-founded SymbioticA; winner of the inaugural Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in Hybrid Art (2007).
Catts was a Research Fellow in Harvard Medical School, a visiting Scholar at the Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University, in 2012 he set up a biological art lab at the School of Art, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, where he was a Visiting Professor.
Catts’ ideas and projects reach beyond the confines of art; his work is often cited as inspiration to diverse areas such as new materials, textiles, design, architecture, ethics, fiction, and food.
Exhibited in places such as the MoMA NY, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Ars Electronica, Linz, GOMA Brisbane and more.

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